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Office 365 – Report on Shared Mailboxes

25th May 2021 by jimmy

A quick one-liner, which pulls back a list of shared mailboxes, last logon time, size in MB and item count. Connect to your EXO with connect-exchangeonline then run the below (This can take a while of you have a large amount of shared mailboxes) Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails SharedMailbox -ResultSize:Unlimited | get-mailboxstatistics | select displayname,lastlogon*,@{name=”TotalItemSize (MB)”; expression={[math]::Round(($_.TotalItemSize.ToString().Split(“(“)[1].Split(” … Read more

Twitterbot Commander

18th April 2021 by jimmy

I recently set up an old raspberry pi as a Twitter bot, setting it to tweet a random image every couple of days, using a script I found here I wasn’t happy that there was a fair amount of work to do to both manually create the images.js file that contained a list of all … Read more

AWS Workspaces – Clean up orphaned Managed AD objects

28th February 2021 by jimmy

If you manage a large number of AWS workspaces, chances are you will end up with orphaned computer AD objects cluttering up your domain. This script pulls a list of workspaces, compares it to the list of machines in AWS managed AD and removes any AD computer object without a corresponding workspace. This script requires … Read more

Bulk add devices to Azure AD Group

8th April 202228th February 2021 by jimmy

A simple script, which takes a list of device names in a text file and adds them to the specified Azure AD group. Requires the AzureAD PowerShell module, the script will check for its existence and offer to install it if it is not found. This script can cope with MFA for Azure AD admins. … Read more

O365 Shared Mailbox sent items

13th January 2021 by jimmy

By default, when “sending as” a shared mailbox, the sent items go into the users sent items folder. Unfortunately, it is not possible to change this to be the shared mailbox, but it is possible to put a copy in the shared mailbox’s sent items folder. The below script will enable this for all shared … Read more

O365 Shared Mailboxes – sent items go into users folder

8th December 2020 by jimmy

The default behaviour for items sent from a shared mailbox is to go into the users sent items. We had a requirement to save a copy in the shared mailbox sent items folder. this script modifies the mailbox so that email sent either “on behalf” or “as” the mailbox get copied into the shared mailbox’s … Read more

AWS Workspaces – Count of machine state

7th December 2020 by jimmy

Just a quick 1 liner of powershell to work this one out: get-wksworkspace | Group-Object state | Select-Object name,count | Sort state -Descending Which will give you something like: Name Count —- —– AVAILABLE 279 UNHEALTHY 30 PENDING 72 REBOOTING 2 ERROR 3

Show meeting details for an Office 365 Room calendar

22nd March 201820th December 2017 by jimmy

The default behavior in Office 365 is to only show meetings in room calendars as ‘busy’ – sometimes you want people to be able to see the details. This is easily changed through a couple of lines of PowerShell. This is caused by the permissions on the ‘default’ user. Let’s look at the permissions – … Read more

Windows Client log management

30th March 201827th June 2017 by jimmy

One of our clients recently asked us to locally archive windows logs for 90 days – they didn’t want the expense of a log aggregator such as Logrhythm. The requirement was to retain 90 days of security and application logs (although you can expand the script to include others) in a compressed folder with restricted … Read more

Unlicense Disabled Office 365 Users

30th March 201823rd February 2017 by jimmy

We have a constant churn of staff, as does any large organisation. One of the challenges is to ensure that anyone who has left has their account disabled in AD. All good, we have that process. We also use Azure AD Sync to sync users to our Office 365 tenant. Disabling a user however, does … Read more