INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Progress Bar in PowerShell
One thing I like about scripting/programming in general is that I never seem to have it all together before I learn about some magical piece of code, which I was unaware even existed, and it goes on to change my life forever. Some of these are quite bigly and others...
Mmmm Chocolatey
There's a special place in my heart full of sympathy for those poor souls who are allergic to chocolate. Chocolate is one of those rare delicacies that just about fixes all of life's problems with just one sweet little treat eaten at the right time, which is any time....
OneDrive Retention Conspiracy
Before I dive into the OneDrive Retention shenanigans, I just want to go on the record and say: I love documentation. At least, I enjoy reading superbly written documentation when it comes to technical things like computers and things that compute and go pew pew. Now,...
VMware Guest NIC Info via PowerCLI
In the VMware vSphere Web Client, you can see quite a bit of information about your VMs including information about the guest operating system running. You can see how many network adapters you’ve added and you can see the IP Addresses configured if you have the...
Death Match: NTFS vs Share Permissions
Disdain for File SharesA recent (make-believe yet highly accurate) survey was conducted and the results were staggering. Although I feel these numbers may be a bit low, let's just roll with them. 99% of system administrators would rather have their completely healthy...
The Value of Experience
\\\The Beginning The value of experience hasn't always been apparent to me. From the time I was a wee little tadpole in grade school, I, like many others, was being prepped to get an education. The formula was simple: get a degree > to get a [good] job > to make...
Exchange Online – Recipient Filters for Dynamic Distribution Groups
Who doesn’t love Exchange Online dynamic distribution groups? It's like cattle that sort themselves. Or maybe you don’t love them, but who loves maintaining super large distribution groups? (Not this guy) It’s like feeling good about who you are as a person when...
Bulk Create Users in AD via PowerShell (with Random Passwords) – Part IV
Alright, so we’re nearly finished with our PowerShell script to create users in bulk in AD with random passwords, but we want to add a last few touches to our (finger painting) work of art. Firstly, let’s add that password back into the $Users variable so we can...
Bulk Create Users in AD via PowerShell (with Random Passwords) – Part III
So far in this series (Bulk Create Users in AD), we’ve created the CSV file and made sure we could create a user first. We then proceeded with writing a loop to go through each user, which we also did. Now what? Well, we still have a couple of things to do before we...
Bulk Create Users in AD via PowerShell (with Random Passwords) – Part II
In Part I of this series (Bulk Create Users in AD), we created a CSV file with one user we want to create in AD. We went through the individual cmdlet for creating an individual user: The Emperor. No Pressure, right? In Part II we’re going to create the loop to go...