Hi, When I began pushing out configuration files in my lab environment I encountered an issue.The background job that ran after the command was entered failed. I spent quite some time trying to troubleshoot the firewalls, PSRemoting and other things that came to mind after reading the error messages. However…
Hi, Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a new feature that was introduced with PowerShell 4.It enables you to deploy configuration data to clients in or outside your network. In some aspects DSC can be compared to GPO, except that it can be used to configure Linux and Mac clients.Windows support…
I had a user that was unable to open existing shared mailboxes in Office 2013.The user had upgraded Office from 2010 and was unable to expand the shared mailboxes afterwards.To solve this we had to reassign permissions to the mailboxes. I used the following command to get a list of…
I recently had a need to export mailboxes to PST. This was done in an environment with Exchange 2010.This can easily be done with the following command in the Exchange Management Shell. New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox -FilePath \serverPSTIdentity.pst This is a bit inconvenient if you need to export more than a few…
Hi, As more and more of users move to the cloud the requirements for administrators change.Simply starting Powershell is no longer enough as the systems we want to configure and monitor are further away from us.Fortunately for us the step to connect to Office 365 is quite easy, as long…
There is no simple way to change the virtual network assigned to a virtual machine i Microsoft Azure.The assignments of locations for virtual machines brings a problem when you need to move a machine to a new network. The simplest way to do this from the Azure portal is to…
Hi, Here I will explain two ways I've found to concatenate two variables to a path.I have at multiple occasions had the need to use two variables to form a single path based on input from the command line. This is an example on how to change location using two…
I was building a powershell script that is supposed to update a software from a network share. The software is installed on a Windows 7 x64-bit machine and requires that a lot of updates are installed quickly and simply.The script itself works fine but for every .msp executed you get…
My objective is to create a folder with a desktop.ini that is used by my colleagues to store files for a project. Usually I create this manually on the correct file server and copy an existing desktop.ini which I edit and then set the attribute to System. I like to work…
Finally, it is time for the first post. Hi everyone, My name is Niclas and I work as an IT-technician.I work with everything from desktops to servers and I often encounter problems or inefficient solutions that I have to find a better way to solve.My main subject of interest right…