If you are using PowerShell frequently you might want to change some default settings to modify your PowerShell window. We can do this by creating a PowerShell Profile where you can add Alias for function you use a lot, load modules at startup, change the root directory or add path variables. First we need to check if … Read moreSetting up your PowerShell Environment with PowerShell Profile
With the new version of Azure AD Connect you can enable the Single Sign-On option in combination with either Password synchronization or Pass-through Authentication. When enabled with Modern Authentication for Office 2016 users only have to type their username and do not need to type their password to sign in to Office applications of other … Read moreSetting up Single Sign On (SSO) with Azure AD Connect
I use a lot of scheduled Powershell tasks to make my life as SysAdmin a bit easier. Recently one of the scripts returns error 0xFFFD0000 as the last result. The task used to work, so I started checking the script, run it step by step to see where the error originates. The script didn’t throw any … Read moreError 0xFFFD0000 after running Powershell Scheduled task
UPDATE: An electronics designer, Shamus Husheer, from the UK contacted me. He found another, cheaper, solution to fix the Lumea battery Charging issue. You can find the post here. A little DIY post that I like to share with you guys. My wife bought a Philips Lumea a couple of years ago. She didn’t use it … Read moreFix not charging Philips Lumea by Replacing Batteries
There is a new zeroday attack that is installing malware on a fully patched Window machine. It uses a vulnerability in all versions of Microsoft Word. The attack start with an e-mail, with a malicious Word document, once opened the exploit code downloads a malicious HTML application file that looks like a RTF document. Behind … Read moreFix Word zeroday vulnerability with SRP
To preserve your Office 365 content you can use Retention Policy that you can create in the Security and Compliance Center. An important step is to add the users to the policy. This can easily be done with PowerShell. This way we can also automatically add new users to an existing retention policy by running … Read moreAdd users to Security and Compliance Retention Policy with Powershell
Starting in April 2017, Office 365 will start with automatically creating direct reports groups in Outlook if you have managers with 2 to 20 direct reports. Depending on the size of your company this feature can create a lot of private Outlook groups, and it’s on by default! The groups will be named “<Manager’s Name>’s … Read moreDisabling automatic creation of direct reports groups
Converting a VMDK to VHD with PowerShell is really easy. We all find our self in a situation that we have a “old” VMware VMDK disk that we need to convert to Hyper-V VHD disk without a VMware of Hyper-V host. Converting vm disk without a host can be done by using the PowerShell modules … Read moreConvert a VMDK to VHD disk
Deploying printers is in basic pretty simple if you have Print Management installed on a server. I can tell and show with screenshots how you set it up, but there is enough written about that already. The problem I ran into was that users didn’t get the printers on Windows 10. They were not allowed to … Read moreDeploying printers with GPO to Win 10
By default, the Room calendar shows a busy status. But in most organizations, you want to see the organiser of the meeting and you might also want to know what the subject is. To see these room details in an Office 365 room calendar, we need to change a few settings. Below I will guide … Read moreShow Meeting Details of a Office 365 Room mailbox Calendar
