Getting Started with Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft has announced the Preview release of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) running in Azure giving enterprises the ability to deploy Windows 10 VDI and app...
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Azure Active Directory Password Hash Sync
I frequently have conversations with customers around what their authentication options are with Azure Active Directory. More specifically, the conversation ...
Start/Stop Maintenance Scripts for Exchange 2016
Coming from Exchange 2010 one of the things that I love/hate about Exchange 2016 is when a new CU is installed it is essentially a full install of Exchange. ...
3PAR - Relocating Virtual Volumes to Different CPGs
There may come a time when you wish to move a 3PAR Virtual volume over to a different CPG, either there was a hardware/OS change that has new features in the...
Disabling License Features in O365
With the changes Microsoft has deployed to O365, adding new Skype plan options to K1 accounts and updating the plan on other license plans, I needed to remov...
Inactive Computer Account Cleanup
Previously, I talked about cleaning up inactive user accounts. This is how I am automating the same process for computer accounts. Note: in my environment, s...
Automated User Account Removal and O365 Cleanup
In my previous post, I talked about finding, disabling, and placing inactive users into a separate OU. In this post, I use PowerShell to remove users from th...
Active Directory Cleanup with Powershell: Finding inactive users
Keeping Active Directory clean can be a very time-consuming task; this can be especially true in a company like mine. We add and remove 100’s of users a mont...
Microsoft Ignite 2015: Post Conference
Well, a week has passed since the end of Microsoft Ignite. After digging myself out all the things in the office that did not get done while I was away, I fi...
Microsoft Ignite 2015: Day 4 Thoughts
It is the end of another day of Microsoft Ignite, and I must say today was the best day I have had so far this week. The mobile app did not crash on me nearl...
Microsoft Ignite 2015: Day 3 Thoughts
I am waiting for my first session to start for Day 4 so I figured I’d write up my thoughts on Day 3 and a few other things I have noticed so far at the confe...
Microsoft Ignite 2015: Day 2 Thoughts
If you saw my Day 1 post, you know that I was not overly excited by it. There was not anything that really Ignited my passion for sure. However, Day 2 overal...
Microsoft Ignite 2015: Day 1 Thoughts
This year I had the fantastic opportunity to attend Microsoft Ignite. My first Microsoft conference! However, it is not all that I thought it would be. Now, ...
Powershell Convert O365 Mailbox to a Shared Mailbox
UPDATE: 09/24/2015- While converting mailboxes to shared is still a useful feature it turns out managing NLE users this way in a hybrid O365 environment was ...
Distributing Powershell Scripts via XenApp
We have been busy standing up System Center for the past few weeks, which is akin to adding another full-time job on top of my already full-time job. What I...
Powershell Server Setup: Part III
I’ve been playing with some AD stuff, partially because I’ve been avoiding tracking down Dev people about migrating off the last of the 2003 servers that nee...
Powershell Server Setup: Part III
This is the final part of my server setup script. If you missed the previous posts, check out Part I and Part II. I suppose I should point out when I use all...
Powershell Server Setup: Part II
In Part I of this series, we took a new 2012 R2 server from fresh ISO to domain join, today we will build upon that by performing these tasks. Windows Da...
Powershell Server Setup: Part I
Working on my environment and needing to build out new servers fairly quickly, and not having SCCM or another provisioning tool running at the moment I set o...