Sep 05 2015
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. You build a bunch of new VMs for your lab environment. You have them all running but every time you switch back to a VM you find that it’s always locked and you have to press Control-Alt-Delete and enter your password. In a production environment, this is …
Aug 26 2015
This HOWTO is fairly specific to me but since I needed to document it anyway I figured I would share it in case in benefited others. I have scheduled yet another Microsoft Exam for October. One of the techniques I use during studying is to take the base “Skills Measured” list from Microsoft and build …
Aug 06 2015
Imagine this scenario. You have a SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 server in your environment along with an Exchange 2007/2010/2013 server. You have configured email-enabled lists in your SharePoint environment by leveraging an SMTP server configured on your SharePoint server along with a send connector on your Exchange server. Everything works great and people can email an address …
Aug 05 2015
Imagine for a moment you have just deployed Office 365 in your environment using a cutover migration. Everything is working well and you’ve now decided to grant access for your users to use Skype for Business. (I so hate that name). You find that some users are not appearing in the Skype For Business Users …
Jul 23 2015
Windows 10 is nearly upon and one of the features I am looking forward to is PowerShell 5. More specifically I am looking forward to the new PowerShellGet module. This is effectively apt-get or yum for Windows and the implications for systems administrators are significant. I just finished a quick test drive of the functionality …
Jul 15 2015
If you use Pleasant Password Server, you may have a need to request passwords from a command line or automated process. If you do, the script below should be very helpful. It took me most of the evening to figure out how to request passwords using PowerShell and the RESTful API built into Pleasant Password …
Jun 22 2015
I needed to run a PowerShell script on a few dozen machines scattered across just as many disconnected networks. I wanted to ensure that if anyone in the future attempted to make changes to the script that it would no longer execute. This means learning how to implement PowerShell certificates. After much Googling I found …
Apr 13 2015
Previously I’ve posted a HOWTO for resolving a CID mismatch issue with virtual machines and snapshots when those VMware are running on ESXi. That can be found here: https://pleasework.robbievance.net/howto-resolve-cid_mismatch-error-with-vmware-virtual-machine/ But what happens if you have the same error under VMware Workstation (11)? Today I had a reason to detach a secondary disk from one VM …
Feb 23 2015
If you’ve used PowerShell for length of time at all, I promise this HOWTO is going to be revelation and will fundamentally change how you use PowerShell. PowerShell is full of objects. All of those objects have properties. Many of those properties have their own sub properties. Those child properties can then still have even …
Dec 17 2014
If you’ve been in IT for any length of time, you’ve run into issues where you’ve been asked to delete folders that users have created that are longer than 260 characters. If you try to delete the folder, you get something like: So you start Googling and invariably you’ll find the same tool recommended over …
