Import Contacts to Office 365 Global Address List
Office 365 doesn’t offer you a way to easily import a list of contacts into your company’s Global Address List (GAL). But it can be done quite easily with Powershell and a csv file of the contacts to import. First of all the csv file. There are some mandatory fields …
Save Sent Items in Shared Mailbox
The default behavior for shared mailboxes is that the sent mail will go to the sent items folder of the senders mailbox. This means other users with shared access cannot see what has been sent from this mailbox. We can change this so the sent items are saved to the …
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 …
What is Ethereum? A Step-by-Step Beginners Guide
If you want to know what is Ethereum and how it works and what it can be used for, without going deep into the technical abyss, this guide is perfect for you. Important Note: This guide assumes a basic understanding of blockchain technology. If you’re unfamiliar with blockchain, check out …
What is Blockchain Technology
Is blockchain technology the new internet? The blockchain is an undeniably ingenious invention – the brainchild of a person or group of people known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto. But since then, it has evolved into something greater, and the main question every single person is asking is: What is Blockchain? …
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 …