Many of us have upgraded our VCenter and ESXi hosts and then stepped back and forgot to upgrade the virtual hardware and VMTools. This can lead to problems with performance and compatibility. Problem is that in order to upgrade the virtual hardware you have to shutdown the machine, right click, upgrade hardware etc, very long… Read More »
Create a CSV file with relevant data i.e. sAMAccountName,postalCode,givenName,sn user.name,444444,user,name Then import and run piping results to a csv. Adapt the CSV and Set-AdUser sections to do what job you need. $data = Import-CSV -Path .\data.csv $data | ForEach-Object { $user = Get-ADUser -Filter “sAMAccountName -like ‘*$($_.sAMAccountName)*’” -Properties st,postalCode Set-ADUser -identity $user.sAMAccountName -PostalCode $_.postalCode }… Read More »
Powershell script that can be adapted to license Office 365 with various service plans. Import-Module MSOnline Connect-MsolService -Credential $Credentials $SessionParams = @{ ConfigurationName = “Microsoft.Exchange” ConnectionUri = “https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/” Credential = $Credentials Authentication = “Basic” AllowRedirection = $true} $Session = New-PSSession @SessionParams Import-PSSession -Session $Session -DisableNameChecking:$true -AllowClobber:$true | Out-Null #Get… Read More »
A nice quick script to get machines that have not logged on to the network in over x days, move to another OU and disable. $d = [DateTime]::Today.AddDays(-365) $todisable = Get-ADComputer -Filter ‘PasswordLastSet -le $d’ -Properties PasswordLastSet | Where-Object {$_.DistinguishedName -notlike “*OU=Disabled*”} $todisable | %{Move-ADObject -Identity $_.DistinguishedName -TargetPath “OU=Disabled,OU=Computers,DC=domain,DC=local” | FT Name,PasswordLastSet} $todisable |… Read More »
If you need to set the out of office for multiple users you can use a powershell script Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration ALIAS -AutoReplyState scheduled -StartTime “07/12/2013 14:05:00” -EndTime “08/05/2013 08:00:00” -ExternalAudience all -InternalMessage $oof -ExternalMessage $oof where the variable $oof is a predefined message. $oof = “I’m not in the office currently” Here I’ll give a more… Read More »