Tag Archives: powershell

Batch Convert VMware VMDK to Hyper-V

Posted on 2019/12/09 by

I’m doing some conversion of legacy VMs and have been using the StarWind Converter to convert the disks. This utility has been around for years and I’ve used it on and off for a long time whenever converting VMs from … Continue reading →

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Automatically manage Office 365 Licences with Powershell

Posted on 2018/01/05 by

Managing Office 365 manually via the portal is fine, until you get fed up with it or need to make bulk changes. Automating the licence allocation process turned out to be fairly easy, once I’d got to grips with how … Continue reading →

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Change Office 365 Products for a Group of Users with PowerShell

Posted on 2017/11/13 by

I wanted to switch all my users over to Office 365 Business Premium. It’s a bundle deal for companies of up to 300 people. Previously I’d been separately licencing each of Office 365 ProPlus, Skype for Business and OneDrive, but … Continue reading →

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GUI to log off Remote Desktop users by non-admins

Posted on 2017/07/07 by

I’ve blogged about the issues with the well-intentioned but ill-though-out Remote Desktop Management Server concept in Windows Server 2012 (inc R2) before, trying to come up with workarounds to all the things you used to be able to do easily … Continue reading →

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Function to invoke PowerShell ISE from shell

Posted on 2017/06/23 by

Another little function to add to your PowerShell profile. If you’re in the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment you can use the command psedit <filename> to open the file in the ISE editor – and it doesn’t just have to be … Continue reading →

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Get Uptime with Get-Uptime

Posted on 2017/06/22 by

I’ve been using this for ages, and have now finally got around to a) blogging it, and b) updating it to use Get-CimInstance. The latter makes it particularly easy to code and thus makes the function very compact due to … Continue reading →

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Remote PowerShell to an IP Address

Posted on 2017/06/09 by

PowerShell remoting works over the WS-Man protocol, which in Windows is implemented via WinRM. By default this uses Kerberos authentication, and in most domain environments everything “just works”. If the machine isn’t correctly registered in DNS you’ll get an error: … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Transcription to a file share breaks everything, and how to fix it

Posted on 2017/04/06 by

There’s been a bit of noise about PowerShell-based malware recently, and given the “assume breach” security mindset, I thought it was about time I enabled some of the PowerShell logging features in Windows. The basis behind “assume breach” is that … Continue reading →

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Collect user and group SIDs and names from Active Directory

Posted on 2017/01/27 by

Ever found yourself looking through the Access Control List of a file/folder/share and mixed in along with the group names (hopefully not user names!) you see some SIDs? These look something like S-1-5-21-0123456789-0123456789-0123456789-0123. These are the Security IDs of deleted … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Exchange mailbox move progress monitor

Posted on 2017/01/25 by

This is a very basic script that’ll give you a progress bar to monitor a mailbox move process. You’ll need to run it from an Exchange Management Shell PowerShell prompt.

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