Create a Dynamic Distribution Group of All Users in Office 365
Launch Powershell as an Administrator and connect to Office 365 Run
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New-DynamicDistributionGroup -IncludedRecipients MailboxUsers -Name “AllUsers" |
That’s it – Dynamic Distribution Group created. To check the membership of the group…… run
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$AllUsers = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup "AllUsers" Get-Recipient -RecipientPreviewFilter $AllUsers.RecipientFilter | FT DisplayName, Alias, PrimarySMTPAddress |
Azure AD Connect passwords not syncing.
After an update to Azure AD Connect we found that status of DirSync was syncing the directory but not the passwords. The password sync had become disabled. To re-enable we need to re-configure Azure AD Connect. Start Azure AD connect and press configure Select configure Enter credentials In the optional …
Azure AD Connect – Scheduled syncing not working anymore
Azure AD Connect suddenly stopped working. Trying to force a sync using powershell also failed a threw up an error:
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Start-ADSyncSyncCycle : System.InvalidOperationException: Scheduler is already suspended via global parameters. at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Scheduler.Scheduler.StartSyncCycle(String overridePolicy, Boolean interactiveMode) at SchedulerUtils.StartSyncCycle(SchedulerUtils* , Char* policyType, Int32 interactiveMode, Char** errorString) At line:1 char:1 + Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : WriteError: (Microsoft.Ident...ADSyncSyncCycle:S tartADSyncSyncCycle) [Start-ADSyncSyncCycle], InvalidOperationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidOperationException: Scheduler is a lready suspended via global parameters. at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Scheduler.Scheduler.StartSyncCycle(S tring overridePolicy, Boolean interactiveMode) at SchedulerUtils.StartSyncCycle(SchedulerUtils* , Char* policyType, In t32 interactiveMode, Char** errorString),Microsoft.IdentityManagement.Powe rShell.Cmdlet.StartADSyncSyncCycle |
SchedulerSuspended. Set by Connect during an upgrade to temporarily block the scheduler from running. SchedulerSuspended is an editable switch with Set-ADSyncScheduler. Run Set-ADSyncScheduler -SchedulerSuspended $false. Then you you should …
MDT – Working towards Zero Touch Installation
The aim of this is to create a deployment that once started will finish without any further intervention. Step 1 – Create the Perfect task Sequence Before we start the process, we assume that you have tested your deployment process and you are able to deploy operating system as required. …
Powershell: Log Manager
Stumbled across this post and thought interesting as we used to have similar problems with logs. We started using the app VisualCron to manage our logs but for whatever reason this could be a healthy costless alternative. Overview Depending on your needs you can configure this script to do the …
Tunnel a PowerShell script to a remote machine and invoke via WMI
In blog post „Invoke a remote command without WinRM, psexec or similar – Access administrative shares even if they have been removed“ I demonstrated how to use WMI to execute a command on a remote computer. The task was pretty simplistic as I only had to create a share. However …
Invoke a remote command without WinRM, psexec or similar – Access administrative shares even if they have been removed
Recently I ran into a situation, where I had to check a few log files on some remote computers and also needed to execute some commands to fix an issue. However, due to reasons I’m not going to enlarge on, all administrative shares had been removed. So by this, no …
Fix MDT 8443 Missing Capture Screen
It is a known bug n MDT 8443 that the capture screen is missing. To correct the bug you need to edit the ZTIUtility.vbs file. Edit the ZTIUtility.vbs File Look in the scripts folder of your deployment share for the ZTIUtility.vbs file. Deploymentshare \scripts\ZTIUtility.vbs. Make a copy of this …
Installing .NET Framework 3.5 with MDT
You could use a DISM command line to install .net Framework 3.5 using something like: DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All/Source:”%deployroot%\Operating Systems\Windows 8.1 x64 Enterprise\Sources\SXS” /LimitAccess But since you have already imported the OS into MDT you may as well use the media that MDT already has and specify the source …
MDT 2013, Powershell, and XPath – ZTIGather.xml
With XML being used so much nowadays, XPath is a useful tool to query xml documents, it can also be useful in other ways. For example looking at how the ZTIConfigure.xml file in helps MDT merge information from Customsettings.ini into an answer file. XPath is used to query the answer …