The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Tag: PowerShell

  • Office 365: Managing your users through PowerShell

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    If you’re like me, then you tend to find yourself wanting to automate as much as possible, or at least be able to work with sets of data in a way that quickly allows you to get to the root of an issue rather than clicking through endless screens of information. In case you were…

  • Microsoft Azure – PowerShell March 2015 Update

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    Without much fanfare, the Azure PowerShell commandlets have been updated as of 31 March 2015 to version 0.8.16. More pertaining to the update can be read here: – https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/tag/v0.8.16-March2015 If you’ve been watching the Azure Content repo on GitHub you probably noticed a ton of things pertaining to HDInsight being committed. Well, you guessed it,…

  • Blocking the installation of SharePoint 2013…

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    Recently I came across a thread on SPYAM regarding whether it’s possible to block SharePoint 2013 installations using group policy or through the registry. Sure enough it’s possible to use the SharePoint 2010 installation blocking technique for SharePoint 2013 with a minor modification. Rather than having the Registry Key be for 14.0, just modify it…

  • Automation of Password Updates…

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    Recently I stumbled upon a SharePoint 2010 environment setup a long time ago where the managed accounts and accounts in general were setup a little funny… in particular the issue was that the profile service stopped syncing. I asked the administrator what the issue was and they stated that they’d setup the system to use…