Using EWS (Exchange Web Services) to read email subjects. Feb 3, 2014 Today I had a discussion with a vendor, they are delivering a solution that reads email from a specific email account on Exchange, and create a ticket in our helpdesk system. ...
Readable Password generator Jan 8, 2014 Because of a report from our auditors, I was tasked with writing a password generator for our helpdesk staff, so instead of using a generic variation of the same password, ...
Campus Days Session Oct 15, 2013 Videoen er endnu ikke kommet online, men den kan ses her når den kommer. hxxp://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Campus-Days/Microsoft-Campus-Days-2013/Windows-PowerShell-4-0
Managing Queue-It queues with PowerShell Aug 2, 2013 We are using Queue-IT for some of our external websites, and we needed to start/stop the queues when we doing maintenance on our sites, I found this very easy to do, with Powershell’s Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet. ...
Culture Gotchas Jun 27, 2013 We are not everyone running Powershell on machines with ”en-US” locale, and sometimes that gives some unexpected problems, if you are running on a non US system, and have been working with Excel for instance, you have probably run into this error when trying to add something to Excel like this: ...
Sending out Password Expiration mails to users in Active Directory Apr 15, 2013 I was tasked with writing a script that would send out an e-mail to users, when there were 14,7,3,2 and 1 days before their AD passwords expired. I use the Quest AD cmdlets to get users from AD. ...
Troubleshooting Test-Connection Sep 10, 2012 I was contacted by a friend who was having some issues with Test-Connection when using TimeToLive Example: Test-Connection -ComputerName www.google.ie -Count 1 -TimeToLive 3 Test-Connection : Testing connection to computer ‘www. ...
The mystery of why Cisco AnyConnect stopped working Mar 14, 2012 A while back I tried to update my Intel Centrino Ultimate 6300 Wifi NIC to the latest drivers, to test Intel MY wifi while I was out travelling, but I never got it to work, it said it could not detect a suitable adaptor. ...
Checking Site sizes in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Jan 25, 2012 Our Sharepoint admin asked me to help him write a script, that found out how much space each DocumentLibrary in our sharepoint farm took up, so after some googeling I found that I could use the StorageManagementInformation Method on the SPSite object, so I cam up with this little script ...
Updating .Htacces file based on Apache log files Oct 9, 2011 I am still seeing massive amounts of referal traffic hitting my site, eating up my bandwidth.. I did not get time to update my .htaccess file for the last 2 days. ...