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One-Liner Wednesday March 22, 2023

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We made it to Wednesday, so now we get a PowerShell One-Liner to make your life easier. Here’s the scenario, HR comes to you and says you need to forward Mark Smith email to John Ralph as soon as possible. Instead of opening up your 365 Exchange Admin portal and logging in, then finding Mark Smith, then finding the Forward option, then typing in John Ralph’s email and saving it.

All you need to do is your Connect to 365 Exchange Portal with Secrets” script, then run

Set-Mailbox msmith@email.com -FowardingAddress jralph@email.com

That is it! Seriously, that’s all you need to do. If your not doing anything else with 365 right away, I would disconnect the session.

One Parameter you can add is -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true, which will save email sent to the original intended email, but still forward the email as well.

Hope this helps you out, and I’ve used this before in other scripts and created functions to add even more functionality.

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Module Monday March 20, 2023

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Hope you had a great weekend, and are ready for today’s Module Monday. Are you using Duo security? Or looking at Duo for your company? Then you need this module. It’s called DuoSecurity.

Why not automate the process of onboarding/terminating employees or removing old phone authenticators? What about reporting on who is in which groups, how many phones they have, or filtering event logs?

So many more things to automate with this module and make your life easier as well as make your company more secure.

If you have used this module before, let me know how you are using it.

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Duo Security

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Duo Security

One-Liner Wednesday March 15, 2023

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Today’s one-liner may not be a direct PowerShell command, but it can be run inside the PowerShell terminal. Are you using Intune, or looking into using Intune? If your already using it, you know by default when you add a user it sets them as a local administrator(I’m not sure exactly why, but that can be a topic for another blog post), and of course we don’t want our users to be local administrators on their computers. To resolve this issue, all you need to do is remove them from the local administrators group like below.

net localgroup administrators azuread\user@domain.com /delete

The only change needed is changing “User@domain.com” to their login address. I’d recommend adding this to your new device script, and if you do not have a new device script, I’d start one now, so you can keep adding and automating things to save you time and have consistent deployments.

Also, take a look at Azure Functions to see how you can deploy code and automate things on a bigger scale.

Read-Only Friday March 10, 2023

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It’s Friday, and I’m going to keep this one short in sweet copy. I’ve mentioned this module before, but it is so helpful if you use any of the products, that I want to make sure you don’t miss out on it! Yes, I know it’s Read-Only Friday, but this module will step up your documentation game ten fold.

AsBuiltReport on Github or you can find them on asbuiltreport.com.

What they have created is multiple modules depending on the product you need documentation on, and with one quick line of code, you get a full breakdown of the product you requesting information on. How about a 144 page document on your Active Directory? Not bad, right?

Check them out, and let me know what you think!

GitHub:
https://github.com/AsBuiltReport

Website:
https://www.asbuiltreport.com/

One-Liner Wednesday March 8, 2023

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Are you using VMWare? Ever had to troubleshoot why a VM isn’t working? Or need to know the status of a virtual machine? If you haven’t used PowerCLI before(I know I’ve mentioned it previously), check out this one liner.

 get-vm servername | select-object name, powerstate, usedspacegb, provisionedspacegb

What this does is first finds the server you are looking for with “servername.” Then it shows the server name, whether it is turned on or off, how much storage space is used, and finally how much storage is provisioned. This gives you a very quick overview of the status of the server.

I know, very simple, but it works… and you can expand on this. You could not put a servername in, and it will show all of your virtual machines with the information above.

What about if you have 100s or even 1,000s of servers, you could export to gridview or even better to excel with the importexcel module for filtering.

Hope you found this useful, and if your not already using the PowerCLI module to start using it and make your life easier.

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Module Monday March 6, 2023

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Hope everyone had a great week and weekend! Took last week off as we went to Disney and I ran the Disney Princess Half Marathon. If you’re looking for your first half marathon, or a fun running experience, this is it!

Then decided yesterday to run another Half Marathon with some friends, but in slightly different conditions… over 1,000 more feet of elevation gain, 50 degrees colder, and no princesses!

With that said, how are you using PowerShell to track/measure your fitness? I know Adam Driscoll has an old module for Strava from 2018. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but will be this week… and hoping it still works. Would be nice integrating it with PowerShell Universal. Garmin’s is locked down. Anyone exported info Apple/Google Health?

PowerShell Gallery:
Strava

Strava API
Strava API Documentation