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Reading IIS logs with PowerShell
Today I was reading Twitter, as I am pretty addicted to technology news when Adam Bacon mentioned that he’s surprised that no one has rebuilt IIS Parser as pure PowerShe…
PowerShell – Comparing advanced objects
Compare nested and advanced PowerShell objects more reliably by flattening complex structures before visual diffing and review.
PowerShell – Converting advanced object to flat object
PowerShell language allows you to work and build complicated objects. There are multiple ways to save them, such as XML or JSON, but sometimes using them is impossible o…
Office 365 Health Service using PowerShell
Use PowerShell and Microsoft Graph to collect Office 365 service health data after the legacy communications API retirement.
Difference between GetTempFileName() and GetRandomFileName() that got my ass kicked
Today’s story is about me making assumptions on how things work based on the method’s name. As the blog post says, I want to focus on two similar methods – GetTempFileNa…
Mentioning users in notifications using PSTeams PowerShell Module
Microsoft Teams over the last few years have grown into an excellent and flexible tool for both small and big companies. Having the ability to chat with users, store fil…
Finding duplicate SPN with PowerShell
Duplicate SPNs aren’t very common but can happen in any Active Directory as there’s no built-in way that tracks and prevent duplicate SPN’s. One has to either know all S…
Solving typo problems with Fuzzy Search in PSWriteHTML
One of the everyday use cases with PSWriteHTML is to create a simple view of PowerShell data in a table. While PowerShell comes with a built-in cmdlet ConvertTo-Html, it…
Active Directory Domain Services could not replicate the directory partition – The replication operation encountered a database error
If you ever encounter an error while trying to create a new domain within a forest saying, “The replication operation encountered a database error,” it makes you sweat a…
Configuring Office 365 settings using PowerShell – The non-supported way
Use O365Essentials to read and change Microsoft 365 admin settings from PowerShell when the official modules do not expose them.