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PowerShell – Everything you wanted to know about Event Logs and then some
If you feel this title is very familiar to you it’s because I actually have stolen the title from Kevin Marquette. I’m in awe of his posts that take you thru topic from…
PowerShell – Few tricks about HashTables and Arrays I wish I knew when I started
I’ve been working with PowerShell for a while now and like with most things I do I’ve learned it by doing and not by reading. I had a job to do, and since I don’t like d…
Bittitan MigrationWiz – The selected Mailboxes cannot be subscribed
Recently I’m doing yet another migration between Office 365 tenants using Bittitan Migration Wizard. It’s a great tool and takes away a lot of headaches when dealing wit…
How to find different server types in Active Directory with PowerShell
Working as a freelancer is a great thing if you can handle it. Each day, each week something new happens and a new problem shows up on my doorstep. It also means it’s al…
A short story on PowerShell HashTables that beat me hard
Today’s story happened a few days back to me, and I think many people may not even know about some object behaviors in PowerShell (just like me). I know some of you may…
Office 365 – Report containing User Information and Mailbox Usage
Working with Office 365 is my bread and butter in the last few months. I’m a System Architect and I am dropped in multiple projects, both new and old, to fix certain asp…
Active Directory – How to track down why and where the user account was locked out
I’ve been working with Windows Events for a while now. One of the things I did to help me diagnose problems and reporting on Windows Events was to write PSEventViewer to…
How to change your own expired password when you can’t login to RDP
I must admit that it was a bit embarrassing to see my Administrator password expired when I tried to log in as Domain Admin to Domain Controller. I got this little messa…
Windows Server 2019 – Desktop path for all users redirected to System32 \ SystemProfile \ Desktop
I’ve got a strange request a few days ago regarding users getting a prompt about their Desktop location pointing to…
Windows 2019 – Windows License Expired
Windows Server 2019 is out now for a couple of months now, and some of you may be interested in playing with it. When you first install it, you can test it for 180 days…