In today’s digital age, the sheer number of online accounts we maintain can be overwhelming. From banking and email to social media and streaming services, each requires a secure password. Yet, many individuals still fall into the trap of using…
We often want to audit user logins from Remote Desktop Gateway to see what kind of activity a particular user has when connecting to remote terminal servers. The simplest way is to execute the following powershell script on the RD…
Microsoft Teams – Audio conferencing Microsoft Teams is a Universal communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration of files), and application integration. As part of the workplace chat & video meeting capability,…
In preparation for a Microsoft 365 migration, we often need to get the list of existing users, mail contacts and distribution groups from Exchange. The following powershell command will simply get all recipients and email aliases as well the the…
Get a list of active users is pretty trivial with powershell, however with multiple AD controllers, things become more complicated. There are effective two fields LastLogon and LastLogonTimestamp. Depending on replication and AD server, the values may be different. The…
Forwarding an email as an attachment is a great way to help your IT department troubleshoot email issues as it contains a lot of technical information such as the header and routing information. This is vital when troubleshooting a problem…
Setting up Multi-Factor Authentication (sometimes called 2 factor authentication or 2FA) adds an extra layer of protection to your Office 365 account. It works by generating a code through an app on your smartphone that you enter each time you…
After a VM was converted from HyperV to VMware, we ensured that the time sync for VMware was disabled: And then we set the PDC to sync time from the Internet. Our monitor tools would alert us that the time…
Migrating files from one server to another is a common task. While there are 3rd party tools that do it, the built-in robocopy tool of Windows works very well. Here is the base command we’ll use: This will need to…
Download a file and save locally using command line to invoke powershell Similar command but works with powershell 2.0 (older machines) Get computer information, such model number, and mnufacturer Get top 10 process by usage
