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…
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…