Author: Frank

In Office 365 & Microsoft Exchange, by default, your resource mailbox won’t show your Meeting Subject. Instead, it replaces this with your organizer’s name. This occurs for privacy reasons, but it’s only the default. Most organizations opt to see meeting subjects instead. Consider the following: A Resource mailbox is configured to AutoAccept in an Microsoft Exchange Server or Office 365 environment. You send a […]
Windows 10 includes a huge number of security settings that can be applied to protect your computers from ransomware, viruses, and other malware. Because Microsoft makes the deployment of these settings available through many different sources and because every business environment is different, these settings are not configured by default. There are many ways to […]
This week is all about a recently introduced profile in Microsoft Intune to configure shared PC mode on a Windows 10 device. That profile is named Shared multi-user device profile. Something similar has been available already for a while via Intune for Education. The main use case for this profile are school devices that are shared between multiple […]
The Outlook Calendar fully integrates with email, contacts, and other features. This integration makes the Calendar component one of the most popular features of Outlook. In this article, we will guide you through the use of the Calendars various functions. In addition, we’ll introduce you to calendar improvements that are specifically targeted to make your […]
Scenario: You need to determine the LastLogon date in a readable format from a list of AD users in a csv file. Edit your users.csv file  so that row1 = name and the following rows have the SamAccountName (or other get-ADUser property) separated by a new line. Example of contents of users.csv = name testusr testuser2 […]
Scenario:  You want to set the Office property for a user account via PowerShell for Active Directory Solution: To set a single User for the property Office: Get-ADUser testusr1 -Properties * | Set-ADObject -Replace @{Office = “test”} To check a single User for the property Office: Get-ADUser testusr1 -Properties * | Select name, Office To […]
Scenario:  A user is a member of multiple security and distribution groups and you wish to determine which of these groups are distribution. Script: $1 = (Get-ADUser STEVE -Properties Memberof).memberof $2 = $1 | %{Get-DistributionGroup $_}  
Scenario:  Display all of the groups a AD user is a member of Scriptlet:   Run the following in Powershell: Get-Aduser STEVE -properties * | Select -expandproperty Memberof | Sort
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