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How to Export Azure DevOps Service Connection Details using PowerShell

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Shaun Wilkinson

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May 15, 2023

I’ve recently been looking to report on and remove old unneeded Azure Service Connections found in Azure DevOps and found that any actual information on how to do this or existing scripts to do it for me were sorely lacking. As such I’ve developed a working example, which can be…
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Azure, Microsoft

Unable to Break Lease on Azure Blob Storage due to attached Virtual Machine

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Shaun Wilkinson

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April 28, 2023

I recently came across a situation whereby I wasn’t able to break a lease on an old .vhd file within Blob Storage. The issue was caused by a Virtual Machine which had since been deleted but still retained a lease lock on the file. Azure will helpfully tell you which…
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Microsoft, Outlook

Exchange 2013/2016 – Select an Organizational Unit shows “There are no items to show in this view”

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Shaun Wilkinson

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November 3, 2022

This was a frustrating issue to deal with in a large environment, effectively if you open any “Select an Organization Until” window such as when configuring rules for dynamics distribution groups you may see either a small number of OU records or no OU records at all, with the window…
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Datto RMM – Close Alerts Older Than, using PowerShell

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Shaun Wilkinson

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October 5, 2022

The PowerShell script below will connect to Datto RMM’s cloud platform, specifically the Merlot API, and close all non-critical alerts older than a specified date. This is all easily configurable and by simply changing the API endpoints should allow you to connect to any of Datto’s available regions. For information…
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Microsoft, Outlook

Exchange – Remove List of Permissions from Exchange Mailboxes

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Shaun Wilkinson

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September 14, 2022

The PowerShell code below will take a CSV list of mailboxes and Users/Groups to remove from that mailbox. This allows you to quickly and efficiently remove old permissions across Exchange.
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Microsoft, PowerShell

PowerShell – How-To Retrieve SPN’s for all Servers

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June 30, 2022

Yet another short one with little context or reason. A colleague of mine needed a list of all Service Principal Names assigned to all servers on the estate. Searches online brought us to a few potential solutions, most of which included the use of some difficult to use and understand…
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Node.JS – How-To Patch CosmosDB Collections and Nested Items

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Shaun Wilkinson

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June 28, 2022

This will be a bit of a reference guide to updating a CosmosDB collections and nested items in a nice manner. This thread will not cover how to use the CosmosDB package in Node.JS and it will assume you’ve successfully connected to a database. I will use the example of…
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PowerShell

PowerShell – Locate Inactive Users in Active Directory / Exchange On-Prem

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Shaun Wilkinson

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June 27, 2022

Another short article with little context today. The PowerShell script below will produce a report showing the Last Logon time of all enabled Active Directory users, it will also connect to Exchange On-Premise and request the last logon date of the mailbox. This can be useful to identify user accounts…
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PowerShell – Find Active Directory Users by First and Last Name

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June 24, 2022

Short one today, the script below will import a CSV from C:\temp\users.csv that contains a ‘User Name’ field and will locate all Active Directory users that match that. Where multiple matches are found it will populate the exported CSV with all matches.
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Android – How to fix ‘Zip Treble Compatibility Error’

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Shaun Wilkinson

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June 20, 2022

I’ve recently been messing around with custom ROM’s, rooting and all that good stuff on Android and came across an issue when trying to re-apply the stock image on my OnePlus Five. When trying to install the original stock ROM to the device I received the following error message –…
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