Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
I have created a small GUI that copies Active Directory groups from one user to another user. With the script you can quickly transfer all groups of a user to another user account: The GUI is only very rudimentary, you can select a source user account and a target user account, a click on "Copy groups from source to target ... Read more
Unfortunately, some blogs or websites that I like to read do not offer e-mail notifications when there are new posts or articles. But since most websites provide an RSS feed, I made a little PowerShell script that sends an email when there is new content. The small script processes several RSS feeds and ... Read more
I have started to create a small PowerShell script to help detect invalid or orphaned group policies. The first version of the script searches for group policies that are not connected to an OU, have no security filtering or have all GPO settings disabled. I will add more functions to the script in the future and publish it as ... Read more
I often don't feel like typing in long filters in PowerShell for large amounts of data. I have therefore gotten into the habit of filtering the data afterwards. The PowerShell CMDLet "Out-GridView" makes this process much easier. With "Out-GridView", data can be displayed in table form and sorted in different ways. This function is particularly useful if you want to get a quick overview. Read more
In this post, I described that my PCs did not receive a Windows 10 Anniversary Update via Windows Update. I had installed the update manually. A mistake, as I have now discovered: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/08/23/powershell-dsc-broken-in-kb3176932/ Exactly one day after my update, the information was published that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) had problems with the PowerShell DSC ... Read more
Microsoft has also made PowerShell available for Linux and MacOS X on GitHub: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell In addition to a DEB package for Ubuntu and an RPM for CentOS, a package for Mac OS X is also available for download. Microsoft has released PowerShell under the MIT license. The Powershell for Linux is therefore OpenSource. I have ... Read more
For a change, a small problem again today. The "Server" service on a Windows Server 2012 R2 file server could no longer be started, which meant that none of the shares were accessible. Only this warning could be found in the "Application" event log: Source: Server Event ID: 2511 The server service could not restore the share share name because ... Read more
Sometimes there are errors in the event log on clients or servers that indicate faulty group policies (GPOs). Unfortunately, only the ID of the GPO is displayed in the event log, so it can take some time to search for the corresponding GPO: The work can be made easier with PowerShell and the ActiveDirectory PowerShell SnapIns get-gpo -all | ... Read more
I have just uploaded version 3.1 of the Exchange Reporter. This time I mainly fixed bugs that crept in despite many tests in different environments. I have made the following changes: Bugfixes O365report.ps1: The report only returned the first 1000 results, thanks to Kaari fixed Mbxreport.ps1: Bug in the listing of limits fixed, if more ... Read more
Here is another small script from the Quick and Dirty series. The script was actually created to monitor an AntiSPAM gateway, which was often overloaded and no longer processed any mails. Unfortunately, "text-only" mails without hyperlinks or other content turned out not to be very meaningful, because they were practically always ... Read more
