Lincolnshire Based MSP
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
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
Recently, we were in a situation where we needed to remove some left over Always-on VPN user tunnels from a lot of Windows 10 machines. (We had duplicate profiles, and this was a tidy up exercise) The following scripts address this issue, it gets a list of all the VPN connections and then removes all … Read more
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
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
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
Recently we needed a quick solution to remotely force SCCM clients to perform a Hardware/Software inventory. I found some code here that I have modified slightly to wrap it in a GUI (Our Config manager doesn’t like command line!) As you can see, you have a range of options, and it is simply a case of entering … Read more
I had a requirement recently that required a folder and all files under it to be removed from all local user profiles on a machine – turns out this is really simple to do in powershell: # Get a list of all local profiles on the target machine # $users = Get-ChildItem c:\users # Now … Read more
Recently I came across a customer site where a lot of the machines had stopped receiving updates from WSUS, despite being visible in the WSUS console and having shown as reported in. I decided to write a powershell script to parse all the machines in AD, stop the Windows Update service, delete the SoftwareDistribution folder, … Read more
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