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2024

Migrating Autopilot Hashes With Azure Tables
·1394 words·7 mins
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As part of a project to consolidate 3 organizations into 1 new organization, we decided as part of the IT consolidation, end user would go through a reset and re-register process to migrate their device from either BYOD or old environment corporate (Intune) managed to new environment corporate (Intune) managed.

2021

Restore AD Attributes
·603 words·3 mins
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Back in the year that is one long COVID induced fog, I wrote about how one can mount a old copy of an Active Directory Domain Services database from something such as a file level backup of a DC.

2020

Unable to delete items in a Exchange Mailbox
·383 words·2 mins
system-administration tech exchange exchange-2010 outlook powershell sysadmin technology
Have you ever got yourself into a situation in Outlook or OWA whereby you are cleaning out a mailbox and find you can no longer delete anymore items from the mailbox?
Restore Out of Office Backup with Powershell
·201 words·1 min
system-administration tech exchange exchange-2010 powershell sysadmin technology
In my previous post, I discussed the need to set a special external facing Out of Office message for all shared mailboxes in the organisation.
Bulk Backup and Set Out of Office Messages
·430 words·3 mins
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We live in very interesting times at the moment.
Mitigating CVE-2020-0674 With Powershell and SCCM
·764 words·4 mins
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Happy New Year fellow SysAdmins and what a welcome it has been for us all.

2019

Installing MiniKube with Powershell
·584 words·3 mins
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I noted on Twitter the other day that I had mixed feelings on getting a breakthrough on a problem that I had faced a couple of months ago by revisiting said problem with a fresh pair of eyes and a different point of view.

2018

Cleaning up corrupt Registry.pol files with Powershell
·233 words·2 mins
system-administration tech group-policy powershell registry sysadmin technology windows-10 windows-7
One ongoing issue that can occur across an predominately Windows/Group Policy heavy enterprise environment is the corruption of the Registry.
Installing Fonts with PowerShell
·281 words·2 mins
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Not normally the application packaging type but some time ago it fell to me to package up some open source fonts and deploy them via System Centre Configuration Manager across the enterprise.
Search DHCP for a MAC Address with Powershell
·198 words·1 min
system-administration tech dhcp powershell sysadmin technology
Many many moons ago, we had a way to trawl through DHCP scopes utilising the netsh tool to find devices on our networks that match a certain MAC address.