I wanted a way to query individual values from the Windows Operating System to build better groups in Ninja. The default OS field is not very easy to work with, so this is what I did. In Ninja, you need to create 4 text fields and add them to your roles. (This assumes you know… Read More »
How I install Office 365 apps through NinjaOne. By default this will install in single-user mode. However, you can also choose to installed in Shared Computer Licensing mode by adding the SharedComputerLicensing parameter. You will need to modify the embedded xml file to suit your needs.
In cases where a motherboard was replaced and Office apps are not activating, this will rename the AADBrokerPlugin folder which gets recreated on next login.
In the past I’ve always deployed Windows operating systems by building a reference image in Audit Mode, customizing the default user profile, then sysprepping, and then finally capturing. Because using CopyProfile during sysprep can have some strange side effects, I’ve decided to just script the customizations immediately after applying the image to the disk. I… Read More »
A while ago I wrote a little Powershell GUI for changing Office 365 calendar and mailbox permissions. I have since updated it to this latest version. The code is below or you can download the script here. It’s a pretty rough GUI and I think I still have a bug in some error message dialogs… Read More »
Welcome to part 3 of installing, configuring, deploying, and capturing images with MDT. In Part 2 we deployed a base Windows image, configured it, and captured it for redeploying to new PCs. In this part, we will import our newly captured reference image, set up driver folders for our hardware, and create a new task sequence… Read More »
Welcome to part 2 of installing, configuring, deploying, and capturing images with MDT. In Part 1 we walked step-by-step through installing the ADK, MDT 2013 and getting MDT ready to deploy our first image. This will be another long, drawn out post so please, bare with me. Now that you have MDT configured, we need… Read More »
I’ve always been hard-pressed to find a guide that includes everything from installing and configuring MDT to actually creating a reference image, capturing it, setting up drivers, and then deploying your reference image. So today, I am going to start a guide that will walk you through this entire process. Please bare with it as… Read More »
Since we are on Office 365 and synchronize our local Active Directory to Office 365, we sometimes need a way to manually trigger an Azure Active Directory Sync when creating new accounts. This code will do that for us. Just change “DIRECTORYSYNCSERVER” to your own server that is running Azure Directory Synchronization. This specific code… Read More »
This is old. It still works, but it’s old and I have a much better version I’ll be sharing at some point. We migrated our environment to Office 365 last year and it’s been a bit of a challenge to say the least. After they upgraded our tenant to Exchange 2013 however, the online GUI… Read More »