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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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Shaun Wilkinson

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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

PowerShell – Find Active Directory Users by First and Last Name

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Shaun Wilkinson

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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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Other

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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Microsoft, PowerShell

PowerShell – How to Retrieve Specific Events From All Servers

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Shaun Wilkinson

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June 16, 2022

Occasionally you may have to implement something which will improve the security of your organisation but that does introduce a risk. Often the correct way to determine if it will cause issues is to enable logging and then to review those logs. But what if you don’t have centralised logging?…
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Microsoft

Exchange 2016 – User account isn’t a member of the ‘Schema Admins’ or ‘Enterprise Admins’ group

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Shaun Wilkinson

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May 24, 2022

This is a frustrating issue to come across when trying to roll out AD Schema Updates during an Exchange Cumulative Upgrade. But luckily it’s normally quite simple to resolve, this article will cover the various solutions from most to least likely to fix the issue.
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Microsoft

How to Search Subfolders in System Center 2012 – SCCM

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Shaun Wilkinson

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March 31, 2022

The amount of time wasted before realising how to do this simple thing isn’t worth thinking about, but luckily it’s very easy in SCCM to search in all subfolders and it can be done by doing the following – Navigate to any asset that contains a search bar at the…
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AntiVirus, Microsoft

Windows 11 – Fix Missing Defender / Windows Security

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Shaun Wilkinson

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March 7, 2022

I’ve recently encountered an issue on Windows 11 devices whereby Windows Defender and the Security portal refuse to open, with it showing a “You’ll need a new app to open this windowsdefender link” popup. This appears to stem from a corrupt app install after one of the recent patches.
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