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Convert Office Outlook VBA Macro To PowerShell 0

Exchange / Office 365

Convert Office Outlook VBA Macro To PowerShell

In my profession I have always been presented with problems or requests that provide a bit of a challenge. One such challenge was automating local PST archiving (not to be confused with online archiving)....

Connect To All Office 365 Services With PowerShell 5

Exchange / Lync / Skype for Business / Office 365

Connect To All Office 365 Services With PowerShell

Since I had to accumulate the following through trial and error of outdated links and outdated technet articles, I have created the up to date defacto version of how to connect to all Office...

Create Shortcuts .lnk or .url Files With PowerShell 10

Windows

Create Shortcuts .lnk or .url Files With PowerShell

Have you ever needed to create shortcuts while scripting. Shortcuts are simply .lnk files with a few details highlighting a few details of the file that you would like to launch. Many people simply...

Delivering Version Controlled Tools With PowerShell 1

Active Directory / Exchange / Lync / Skype for Business / Office 365 / Skype / Windows

Delivering Version Controlled Tools With PowerShell

The most popular PowerShell user interface IDE is Sapien’s PowerShell Studio which allows for an easy way to create WinForms applications. When packaging PowerShell code into an .exe file you can specify the version...

Get Last Computer Boot Time or Up Time With PowerShell 12

Windows

Get Last Computer Boot Time or Up Time With PowerShell

You may require logic to take place around last boot time or computer up time. Or perhaps you may simply want to display it to the user. PowerShell provides an easy way to accomplish...

Automatically Update PowerShell Help Files 3

Windows

Automatically Update PowerShell Help Files

Each time I visit a new co-workers desk (to assist them with something PowerShell related) Get-Help will not return much for them and they asky why. The reason is that they have never ran...

Join Computer to Domain with Desired Computer Name and OU 39

Active Directory / Windows

Join Computer to Domain with Desired Computer Name and OU

Someone submitted a PowerShell request for scripting the adding of a workstation to the domain. The solution was to be used in an imaging process with the ability to change the workstation name and...

Find any E-Mail Address or Proxy Address In Active Directory 19

Active Directory / Exchange / Lync / Skype for Business / Office 365

Find any E-Mail Address or Proxy Address In Active Directory

Here is another common request for any Exchange or Unified Communications administrator. Someone will usually pop by and ask, “Who has this e-mail address?” The address could be one of many different types of...