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Add Windows local users and admins by PowerShell

Kosta Kondaurov — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 10:07:48 +0000

Once I got a task to create Windows Server local users on 10 machines and give them Admin permissions. I’ve found that I’d rather automate and be effective. I prefer to spend 10 minutes writing a script and 10 minutes running it rather than spending 30 minutes for manual job. This small …

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Send test email with PowerShell

Kosta Kondaurov — Fri, 21 May 2021 10:09:01 +0000

It is a quite common situation. when you need to send an email from a PowerShell script that contains a status report or another kind of data. Nevertheless, before you can send a normal email you would like to run a quick test to confirm that you can send email from this …

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AD DC replication test using PowerShell

Kosta Kondaurov — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:15:37 +0000

I believe that every server, and a Domain Controller especially, should be tested after a restart or another kind of maintenance job. The task to test AD DC replication test using PowerShell needs to be executed on each DC in AD. My team asked me if there is a way to automate Active …

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Packer on VMWare : Collection of errors

Kosta Kondaurov — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 04:51:11 +0000

When I was doing a configuration for Packer to build VM templates on VMWare I spent quite a while troubleshooting the solution. Please see my collection of errors. Hope that helps you to find your way out. I was using “vsphere-iso” driver. If you are looking for a good explanation with all …

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Find Azure Linux image ID or URN using PowerShell

Kosta Kondaurov — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:31:48 +0000

One day, I was playing with Chef test kitchen in Azure. There was only one option – to use azurerm driver. There was heaps of examples for Ubuntu or Windows server, but I needed SUSE. It is not a big deal to provision from Azure portal, but how can I do that with …

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KB: Checking for Office 365 users UPN and Mail attributes match

Kosta Kondaurov — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:39:36 +0000

10 Aug 2019 a KB was released about possible issues with modern authentication for Outlook users. Users might be affect if their account attributes UserPrincipalName (UPN) and Mail not match. I was involved with remediation process. Was thinking it might be helpful for others if the information about how to do checking …

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Azure Linux VM performance tuning

Kosta Kondaurov — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:51:16 +0000

I was looking for options, what I can do in Azure to speed up (optimize) a stack of servers for one business application. They were built approximately 2 years ago, and some features were not available at that time. Good that machines running on quite fresh version of Linux that has a …

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Office 365 PowerBI activity report

Kosta Kondaurov — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:42:50 +0000

My colleagues asked me to get an Office 365 PowerBI user activity report. Not just a one time, but to get it regularly for a month. The purpose of that report is to identify who use PowerBI and know not, so they can safely revoke a PowerBI Pro license. I started thinking …

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