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Update Calendar entries to show subject and organisers name
Connect to Office 365: Set-CalendarProcessing -Identity <room email address> -DeleteSubject $False -AddOrganizerToSubject $False
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Search AD Computer for hostname and description
In this example EMEA devices with Latitude e7470 in the description field: $Properties = @('Name', 'Description') Get-ADComputer -Filter {Name -like "*EMEA" -and Description -like "Latitude e7470"} -Properties $Properties | Select $Properties To get a count of objects found (after you created the $properties variable
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Set work hours/timezone for Resource Rooms
Connect to Office 365: Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration -Identity "<room name>" -WorkingHoursStartTime <start time> -WorkingHoursEndTime <end time> -WorkingHoursTimeZone "<timezone>" Live example: Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration -Identity "Conf Room_One" -WorkingHoursStartTime 07:00:00 -WorkingHoursEndTime 20:00:00 -WorkingHoursTimeZone "W. Europe Standard
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How to Permanently Remove Deleted Users from Office365
Objects will age off after 30 days but sometimes you need them gone sooner. Connect to Office 365: Get list of users that have been removed: Get-MsolUser -ReturnDeletedUsers Remove the user/mailbox in question: Remove-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName <user email> -RemoveFromRecycleBin
Collecting IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) remotely on VMware ESXi
Download the portable executable for the client connecting to the remote host: http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=serv-dsa You will need to enable remote connections to the VMware ESXi shell. Using the vSphere Web Client, perform the following: 1) Browse to Home > Inventory > Hosts
Manually Refresh and Update Exclaimers Mail Disclaimer Active Directory Cache
When Exclaimer’s Mail Disclaimers Signature tool query’s active directory , it will sometimes cache the information for up to 2 hours (depending on your settings). To manually force an AD Refresh Restart the following Services in order : – Exclaimer Mail Disclaimers Configuration Service ( It will also ask to restart 2
Host IPMI System Event log status alarm is triggered
The alarm monitors the capacity of the IPMI System Event.log file log so when it’s full this event is triggered. 1: Open vCenter Server using vSphere Client 2: Select Host 3: Click Hardware Status Tab 4: Click System Event Log 5: Click Reset Event Log 6: Click Reset
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NSClient uptime error for a Windows 2003 host
Basically the alert was “NSClient – ERROR: Could not get value” To verify you can run this command (from a command prompt) and check the output on the server: cd “c:\Program Files\NSClient++ ” nsclient++.exe /test To fix this we need to force a counter rebuild., again from a command
Can’t run SPICEWORKS.EXE
Went to upgrade Spiceworks to the latest version and the .EXE wouldn’t run. This is due to windows server (2003, 2008 etc…) blocking the file type. You need to ‘right click’ on the file and under properties you should have the option to ‘unblock’ that file type.
”Active Directory Trusted Subdomains Synchronization” alerts
A new Sophos Web Appliance was emailing these alerts daily due to not being able to access another domain in the organisation. From your SWA portal go to the Configuration > System > Active Directory The make these changes: 1) turn off AD authentication, 2) click Apply, 3) turn on
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This Mailbox database contains one or more Mailboxes
Came across this when trying to uninstall an Exchange server (was the original server in the organisation). I knew there were no mailboxes left in the database indicted in the error message but it seems there are hidden mailboxes. You need to run through the following commands and make sure
Buffalo Linkstation (LS-WXL) – Admin hack
Long story short I needed access to this NAS and it was on the other side of the planet so a little creative coding came to the rescue. With developer tools enabled (I used Chrome). * Get to the login page * Open dev tools sources tab * Open login_utis.js under