Powershell is an absolute necessity for any Windows sysadmin. Ill provide scripts to help you automate repetitive tasks.
If you’re hosting Microsoft Exchange server on-premises, you’ve probably realized that it is pretty critical to ensure those services are up and running. In the event that some services are not running, it’s always good to know how to restart… Continue Reading
There are a ton of scripts out there that show you if the user has MFA enabled by checking their authentication methods, something very similar to this Get MFA Methods using Graph API script I wrote a while back. However,… Continue Reading
If you manage a VMware environment it might be helpful to know how to get ESXi server uptime. You may notice that there is a simple way to check uptime via the browser, but that only works on a handful… Continue Reading
I always find it very helpful to be able to use Powershell to automate whatever task needs automating. Knowing how to automate is truly one of the most versatile skills you can have as a Systems Engineer and today I’m… Continue Reading
If you’ve followed along and are receptive to Microsoft best practices, you should be aware that using group based licensing in Azure AD is the go-to method for assigning licenses to your users in the cloud. I must say, group-based… Continue Reading
Over the past several months, I’ve been delving more and more into Azure Log Analytics and I must say that I absolutely love it. It’s incredibly fast and seeing the results come in right away is an instant gratification. And… Continue Reading
I recently had to do an audit to log any changes that were made to public DNS records and I found that there was nothing out there that really that suited my needs. Therefore, I wrote my own Powershell script… Continue Reading
With the recent announcement of the Azure AD API deprecation, I’ve made an effort to try and migrate all of my scripts to use Microsoft Graph API. Microsoft Graph API is the latest standard for managing everything Microsoft 365 and… Continue Reading
Microsoft has confirmed on multiple occasions that the Azure AD Graph Endpoint is deprecated and will be fully decommissioned in the future. This means that if you’re currently using the AzureAD (or AzureADPreview) Module(s) then after it’s deprecated, your scripts… Continue Reading
Imagine a scenario where you work for an organization that has just changed it name to something more user friendly. One of things that are asked of the SysAdmins is that they want to be able to change all UserPrincipalNames… Continue Reading