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 »
Download the module: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=236293 Run the below commands to connect to Microsoft Online Services Module. $cred = Get-Credential $session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionURI https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $session Connect-MsolService -Credential $cred
Reset the licensing status There are three useful commands to reset the license status and re-activate a user’s installation of Office Professional Plus for Office 365. These are as follows: OSAUI.exe /K resets and reactivates a user’s Office account by contacting the Office 365 services that are using the previously entered credentials. The user will not… Read More »