BIOS-to-UEFI group – this group will only run if the machine has booted from BIOS rather than UEFI I’ve then added a message specific for a certain model of laptops that require a BIOS downgrade for reasons I’ll not go into. The selection criteria as a WMI query and the message box is displayed underneath.…
Microsoft’s naming changes for Windows 10 updates can be a little confusing. Here’s a little guide to describe the latest terminology and a mapping between the old and new terms. As you will likely already know, Microsoft has shifted from a new release of Windows every few years to a ‘windows as a service’ model. …
Here’s a script I’ve written that can be added as a scheduled task on the SCVMM server to send a daily report to selected people containing all the currently outstanding checkpoints on the Hyper-V hosts. This is done without having to store any plain text passwords (they are stored but in an encrypted format). It…
It can be really difficult trying to remember that command you used a few weeks ago in Powershell. Here’s an easy way to search through your previous commands to find the right one and jog your memory. First, run
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[cc lang="powershell"](Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc] |
Then you can cat the output to look for the command
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[cc lang="powershell"]cat C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc] |
Or just open…
I was getting pretty confused with the various options around powershell commands to use with Exchange online. For example, to add a user to a distribution group in O365, I had come across 4 different commands:
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[cc lang="powershell"]Add-AzureADGroupMember Add-AzureRMADGroupMember Add-DistributionGroupMember Add-MsolGroupMember[/cc] |
So after some digging I realised that the *-AzureRM* are powershell cmdlets to modify general Azure resources using…
I recently wrote this script that creates an O365 mailbox within a hybrid exchange environment, creating all the necessary attributes etc in exchange and AD Log all output to a local logfile, that is unique each time and won’t get overwritten
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[cc lang="powershell"]Start-Transcript -Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA"CloudwyseLogs"$(get-date -Format ddMMyy_HHmmss)".log" -NoClobber[/cc] |
Clear output from the screen to prevent previous command being sent as first…