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2018

Forcing a firmware update on a Chromecast with Powershell
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You probably took one look at the title and thought “what in the blue hell is this person on about?

2017

Legacy BIOS and UEFI PXE coexistence
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More and more enterprises are moving towards the modern UEFI devices in their fleet, whether that be desktops, laptops or convertibles.
How to restore a tree of objects from the Active Directory Recycle Bin
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In a previous post I detailed how to setup the Active Directory Recycle Bin and restore single deleted objects back in your Active Directory.
Export users of one AD group and import to another
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It’s quite common for members of one Active Directory security group to be replicate in another.
Testing your PowerShell code in different versions from the one workstation
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I hit a brick wall today while smashing together various PowerShell code snippets for a script I am working on (that I’ll share later).

2014

Ping a set of hosts with Powershell
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You may find yourself one day having to ping a set of machines on a regular basis.

2013

Switching between Windows Server 2012's interface levels
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One of the much touted features of Microsoft’s latest incarnation of the Windows Server release, Server 2012 is that administrators can freely switch between levels of interface available to the user.
Give a computer account Send-As permissions in Exchange Powershell
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Take for instance the File Server Resource Manager that is a feature of the File Server role.
How to setup and restore a object from the Active Directory Recycle Bin
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CTRL+Z, the undo button, the recycle bin, shadow copies; The human element in the world of IT can some times be our undoing; This goes along way to explain the push to automate EVERY facet of the our IT systems.
Resolve failed Mailbox Move Requests
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So chances are, after reading my previous post on how to move Mailboxes via Organizational Unit you have migrated a couple hundred mailboxes.