Been a while! Just over a year since my last post, I never intended to leave it this long ???????? A lot has happened in that time but I’m back today with another short example of PowerShell wizardry. Maybe that isn’t the correct term since I wrote the code… seems…

Adding aliases in AD is a VERY simple task. You can just find the user via the ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers), go to the ‘ attributes’ tab on them, find ‘ proxyaddresses’ and add a new record prefixed with smtp:. For example, you could add ‘ smtp:firstname.lastname@domain.com ‘ …

Hi everyone! I was visiting an office a couple months back that used to be a dentist office. In the attic, we found a bunch of VERY old computer equipment. I’m fairly young so this felt like an archaeological dig. I managed to salvage a Key Tronic keyboard with the…

If you have ever installed Plex on a default installation of Ubuntu, you might have noticed that Ubuntu doesn’t take up the entire disk space for the root (‘/’) partition. This is the reason Plex has the issue described in the title. This is VERY annoying. I was really struggling…

So, cryptocurrency mining is NOT something I often dabble in. Maybe its the fact that using some second hand GPU to get rich off BitCoin died off a decade ago. …

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Ooooofff!! Been a while, man! Long time no write 😱🤷‍♂️ So, a little bit of back story — sometimes I need to import a tonne of PSTs to people O365 account for my job. I used to do this in a VERY manual way of adding their account to my…

This is a story from a while ago. At a time when I needed to install SharePoint 2013 to test the migration plan to a newer version. FYI if you are ever in this predicament, convince the higher-ups to just start a clean server and not migrate. …

This was a problem that I was stuck on for a long time. Originally, I made a program in PowerShell that I and a couple of other people in the company used to query remote computers to retrieve certain information (SN etc). I wanted to make the move to using…