It’s really easy if you need to make changes to the roaming profile path in Active Directory to multiple user accounts. All you need is to highlight them all, right-click and select Properties. But as you can see, it doesn’t have the Remote Desktop Service Profile tab. So how do you batch update this property to a large number of […]
I have Ricoh network printers shared from Windows 2012 R2 Server on Windows 10 computers. All went well until recently some of them are shown as Printer Model Number instead. They are still working fine and are shown properly when printing in applications like Microsoft Word. It’s just annoying. On top of that, on some of the computers, I get […]
Normally, sharing a calendar with others doesn’t provide them the privilege to view the private appointments you put in your calendar. But if you do, you will also need to give the others the delegates access. preferably with automatically send a message unchecked so the delegates don’t get all the unnecessary notifications. You can also accomplish the same with PowerShell, […]
Even though Windows 10 has made taking screenshots so much easier, using PowerShell for the same task still gives a lot of good use. But PowerShell doesn’t have the capability of taking screenshots out of the box. You will need to leverage .NET for a few things. Here is a good example of taking a full window screenshot using PowerShell. […]
There are free tools like CodeTwo Active Directory Photos that lets you upload photos to Active Directory and manage them with a GUI interface. But it’s not as sleek and flexible as using a scripting tool like PowerShell. In order to use PowerShell to communicate with Active Directory, you will need the Active Directory module installed for PowerShell. The easiest […]
Counting the licensing usages and checking out the license details in Office 365 using PowerShell is a lot easier than going through the admin console. First, install the module if you haven’t done, and connect to Azure AD with your Office 365 subscription. Install-Module msonline Connect-MsolServie To list of the licensing plans available in my tenant: Get-MsolAccountsku To view a […]
By default, emails sent from Shared Mailbox are only saved in the user’s Sent Items folder but ideally, it can be also copied in the Shared Mailbox’s Sent Items folder as well. To enable this Sent Items Copy feature, First, connect to Office 365 using: $userCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection […]
Shared mailbox on Office 365 can be very useful and served as many roles. When granted with full mailbox permission, the mailbox can be automatically shown up in your Outlook without extra configuration. There used to be a setting in Office 365 admin portal that can turn this auto-mapping feature on or off but I don’t seem to be able […]