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Creating Custom Objects in PowerShell : Introduction

Learn to create your own custom object in Powershell in this four-part series.

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Groups Membership Model Makes Teams Private Channels Hard to Implement

Secure (or private) channels is the biggest user request to the Teams development group, possibly because Slack has this feature. The only problem is that the Office 365 Groups membership model doesn’t allow for filtering within a group, so introducing elements available to a selected set of members might create all sorts of difficulties for how Teams interacts with the rest of the Office 365 ecosystem.

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How to Configure SharePoint 2013 ULS Logging Levels

Did you know SharePoint provides fine-grained logging capabilities? Get to know Universal Logging System (ULS) logs in SharePoint 2013 in this overview.

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Dancing on the Table with PowerShell

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks demonstrates some additional techniques with PowerShell and shows how easy it is to work with basic data and use the DataTable object.

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Looking Forward to Office 365 at Ignite 2018

Microsoft has scheduled 1,500+ sessions for the Ignite 2018 conference in Orlando next week. What’s happening for Office 365? Well, there are many sessions to attend, but the interesting thing is the huge number of sessions assigned to Teams compared to other workloads. SharePoint does OK, but Exchange is low, and Yammer gets a surprising allocation.

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PowerShell Problem Solver: Creating a Better EventLog View

Learn how to change the default display for PowerShell’s Get-Eventlog cmdlet by formatting the output to a list.

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Creating a Better PowerShell Module

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks revisits his Uptime module and enhances with new properties and parameters.

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Essential Guide to Mastering Get-ADGroupMember (AD User Management)

Get-ADGroupMember is a useful PowerShell cmdlet for retrieving the members of Active Directory (AD) groups. In this article, we’ll delve into the capabilities of Get-ADGroupMember, explore its common parameters, and provide practical examples to showcase its power and versatility in managing your Active Directory environment. We’ll also touch on a related cmdlet – Get-ADGroup and…

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Windows GPT Disks – Is Bigger Really Better?

Bruce Mackenzie-Low examines the benefits and disadvantages of MBR and GPT-based Windows disks. The 2 approaches differ in how they track the mapping of physical disk sectors to logical block numbers. MBR (Master Boot Record) is widely accepted, but partition size is limited to 2 terabytes. GPT (GUID Partition Table) was created to accommodate the larger partition sizes and offers greater resilience to corruption.

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Creating Custom Objects in PowerShell from Scratch

Learn to create PowerShell custom objects from scratch in part three of this series.

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