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Meet Statusimo – PowerShell generated Status Page
Meet Statusimo, a PowerShell-generated status page for tracking service health and publishing a simple internal or public status view.
Hyper-V – Can’t start Virtual Machine because it’s backing up
Working as a small business often brings you little tasks here and there. Today I’ve decided to shut down the Hyper-V machine to expand its disks. Unfortunately for me,…
PowerShell – Everything you wanted to know about Event Logs and then some
If you feel this title is very familiar to you it’s because I actually have stolen the title from Kevin Marquette. I’m in awe of his posts that take you thru topic from…
PowerShell – Few tricks about HashTables and Arrays I wish I knew when I started
I’ve been working with PowerShell for a while now and like with most things I do I’ve learned it by doing and not by reading. I had a job to do, and since I don’t like d…
Bittitan MigrationWiz – The selected Mailboxes cannot be subscribed
If MigrationWiz says selected mailboxes cannot be subscribed, the problem can be the user record flow between MigrationWiz and MSPComplete rather than the mailbox itself.
How to find different server types in Active Directory with PowerShell
Working as a freelancer is a great thing if you can handle it. Each day, each week something new happens and a new problem shows up on my doorstep. It also means it’s al…
A short story on PowerShell HashTables that beat me hard
Today’s story happened a few days back to me, and I think many people may not even know about some object behaviors in PowerShell (just like me). I know some of you may…
Office 365 – Report containing User Information and Mailbox Usage
Working with Office 365 is my bread and butter in the last few months. I’m a System Architect and I am dropped in multiple projects, both new and old, to fix certain asp…
Active Directory – How to track down why and where the user account was locked out
I’ve been working with Windows Events for a while now. One of the things I did to help me diagnose problems and reporting on Windows Events was to write PSEventViewer to…
How to change your own expired password when you can’t login to RDP
I must admit that it was a bit embarrassing to see my Administrator password expired when I tried to log in as Domain Admin to Domain Controller. I got this little messa…