PowerShell

Understanding PowerShell Objects

One of the features that both makes PowerShell so easy...

Jul 28, 2022|Jeff Hicks

PowerShell

Get-AdUser: How to Audit Active Directory Users with PowerShell

PowerShell is an essential tool for IT admins, and it...

Mar 3, 2022|Michael Reinders

PowerShell

The Top 10 PowerShell Commands That You Should Know

In this guide, we’re going to detail the top ten...

Feb 17, 2022|Michael Reinders

Office

How to Turn Off Cortana Daily Briefing Emails

If you do not want to receive the Cortana Daily Briefing email for yourself, your tenant, or a group of users - this is how you turn that off.

Mar 8, 2021|Brad Sams

PowerShell

Understanding Character Encoding in PowerShell

Working with strings in PowerShell is core to many different operations. With strings come the many different encodings that can be used. Learning to manipulate, understand, and use those encodings can make working with documents of different languages and types much easier to do.

Feb 23, 2021|Adam Bertram

PowerShell

How to Import and Export Delimited Files, like CSV, in PowerShell

The Export-CSV and Import-CSV cmdlets are exceptionally useful tools to both export data for consumption to other applications and to retrieve and import information from third-party data sources.

Nov 17, 2020|Adam Bertram

PowerShell

Outlook Mobile Ceasing Support for iOS 12 Soon

Outlook Prepares for the Coming of iOS14 Apple’s much-awaited release...

Sep 10, 2020|Tony Redmond

PowerShell

Consolidating File Servers with PowerShell and Robocopy

File Servers – We all have them in one form...

May 26, 2020|Adam Bertram

Office 365

Microsoft Launches Preview PowerShell Module for Graph

Microsoft has made a preview PowerShell module for the Graph available for developers to play with. Being able to use PowerShell with the Graph exposes a lot of data to play with, so it's a great addition to the administrator toolkit. To see how things worked in practice,, I convert a script to report Teams channels that are email-enabled to use the Graph module. Things worked out pretty well, but as you'd expect, some rough edges exist that need to be smoothed.

Feb 4, 2020|Tony Redmond

Office 365

Identifying Obsolete Guest User Accounts in an Office 365 Tenant

Many Office 365 applications now create Azure Active Directory guest accounts. What's the best way to discover if the accounts are active and in use? This PowerShell script uses the Office 365 audit log and message trace data to figure out what guest accounts are active and outputs a CSV file for your review and analysis. Like any other PowerShell script, it can be adapted to suit your purposes.

Dec 23, 2019|Tony Redmond