Category Cloud & Datacenter Management

24/04/2020

Office 365 – Configure Users To Reset Non-Administrators Passwords

By Steve in Active Directory, Business Applications, Cloud & Datacenter Management, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Office Apps & Services Tag Active Directory, Assign, Azure, How to, Office365, Password, Reset, Roles

The support desk will require the function to reset users passwords in your environment. Their is a pre-configured role already available in Office 365. Follow these basic steps to assign…

24/04/2020

Office 365 How To Configure External Collaboration Settings with Domain Restrictions

By Steve in Active Directory, Cloud & Datacenter Management, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Office Apps & Services Tag Active Directory, Azure, block guests, block members, Collaboration, Domains, External, invite, Office365, Restrict, Secure, Security, target domains, Users

In Office 365, how do you configure external collaboration settings but restrict certain domains from collaboration. This is all configured under Azure Active Directory Admin Center. A few clicks and…

23/04/2020

Office 365 Password Protection – Custom Banned Passwords – Greyed Out

By Steve in Active Directory, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Office Apps & Services Tag Active Directory, Azure, Banned, Enterprise Mobility, Greyed Out, Office365, Password, Password List, Passwords, Protection, Unavailable

So you have decided to increase security by adding a banned password list but the option in Azure Active Directory admin center is greyed out. Problem is licensing. This feature…

15/03/2020

What is On-Premises, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and IaC?

By Steve in Amazon, AWS, DevOps, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Powershell, VMware, vSphere Tag IaaS, IaC, Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code, On-Premise, PaaS, Platform as a Service, SaaS, Software as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software as a Service (SaaS) On-Premise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Examples I've used What are the differences? Infrastructure as Code…

17/02/2020

WVD – Windows Virtual Desktop – Admin Tasks, Tips and Useful Blogs

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Powershell, Windows Virtual Desktop Tag Admin, Azure, Blogs, Office365, PowerShell, Tasks, Windows Virtual Desktop, WVD

Windows Virtual Desktop: The Best Step-by-Step Walkthrough Windows Virtual Desktop - Add/Remove Users by AD Group using Azure Automation WVD Troubleshooting Options Tips Tricks – Windows Virtual Desktop Windows…

27/01/2020

Azure Administrator – Tasks and Guides

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Powershell Tag Administrator, Azure, Guides, Tasks

Your one stop shop for the Azure Administrator resource pool of tasks. Task Set the tenant, subscription, and environment for cmdlets to use in the current session. Plan virtual networks…

16/01/2020

AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator – EXAM PASSED!!!

By Steve in Active Directory, Alerts, Azure AD, Azure Monitor, Cloud & Datacenter Management, Conditional Access, Enterprise Security, Hot Wired IT Solutions, Kubernetes, Logs, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Networks, Roles, Users and Groups, Security Center, Storage Tag Administrator, AZ-103, AZ103, Azure, Certified, Microsoft, Professional

Jan 16, 2020 AZ-103: Microsoft Azure ADMINISTRATOR EXAM PASSED!!! #Azure #Administrator #CertifiedProfessional #MicrosoftAzure #MicrosoftCloud #Microsoft #alwaysbelearning #AZ103 #EXAM #PASSED

21/08/2019

New Release: PowerCLI 11.4.0

By Steve in PowerCli, Powershell, VMware Tag module for PowerShell, PowerCli, PowerShell

Great news for all the scripting people out there. New Release: PowerCLI 11.4.0 #PowerCLI #Scripting #WhatsNew New Release: PowerCLI 11.4.0 August is always a great month when it comes to…

18/02/2019

Ping sweep script test

By Steve in Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell, Windows 7 Tag BATCH, Count, CSV, ForLoop, Import CSV, Jamie Crookes, module for PowerShell, Ping, Ping utility function, PingSweep, PowerShell

POWERSHELL import-CSV "" | foreach { $result = Test-Connection -ComputerName $_.Name -Count 1 -Quiet $_.name, $result -join ',' | out-file "c:\scripts\PingSweep\computer_results.txt" -Append } COMMAND /BATCH SCRIPT Create list of computers…

23/01/2019

PowerShell : Get COMPUTER objects of a specific group ( this example gets the properties “description” of each object )

By Steve in Active Directory, Microsoft, Powershell Tag Computer, foreach, Get-ADComputer, Get-ADGroupMember

# Get COMPUTER objects of a specific group ( this example gets the properties “description” of each object ) # List in a table format Name and Computer Description PropertiesGet-AdGroupMember…