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It’s Read-Only Friday, and what better thing to do than read and help out the PowerShell, DevOps, and IT community by purchasing a book of 2 from the DevOps collective?!!
https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective
https://leanpub.com/psconfbook3
If I’m missing others that donate to the DevOps, please let me know.
Can you believe it’s Wednesday already? I can’t either, week is flying by. Could it be the excitement of the PowerShell + Devops Global Summit coming up in a few weeks? Quite possibly! If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, I highly recommend it. With that said, these next 3 weeks I’ll be highlighting speakers and topics from the summit.
Today’s one-liner is a great one for troubleshooting from Jeff Hicks. He will be heading the Onramp program for attendees who are just getting into IT. It is such a great program and wished it was around when I was getting into IT!
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{Logname = 'System';Level=1} -MaxEvents 10 | sort-Object ProviderName,TimeCreatedWhat this one-liner does is searches the System Event Log for the last 10 “Critical” events. Then sorts them by the Provider name and date/time. You could change the level for “lesser” events if needed. Also if you need to check on a remote computer you can add the -ComputerName parameter, but remember that it only takes 1 computer at a time. If you need to connect to multiple computers, you can use ForEach to reach out to all computers needed.
Hope this one-liner helps you out and hope to see you at the PowerShell + DevOps Summit!
Jeff Hicks:
Blog
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit:
Global Summit
Microsoft Learn:
Get-WinEvent
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.
PowerShell Help:
Microsoft Learn
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.
PowerShell Gallery:
Duo Security
GitHub:
Duo Security
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 /deleteThe 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.
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/