Simple Room Resources: Setting Up Room Calendars in Exchange Online
If you are new to Microsoft 365 administration, simple room resources are one of the first things people will ask you to fix. Someone double-booked the big conference room. A meeting got auto-declined for no clear reason. The room shows up in Outlook but nobody can actually book it. All of these come down to one object type: the room mailbox. A...
GPOs with PowerShell
Every AD environment I've inherited has had the same problem. Hundreds of GPOs, half of them doing nothing, and nobody willing to delete any of them because nobody knows which ones are actually in use. So they sit there. They slow down gpresult, or They confuse the...
Working In the System
Working Within the System: Notes from a Sysadmin I've been doing this work long enough to watch the same pattern play out over and over. An admin gets handed a problem, sees a cleaner way to solve it, and instead of working the problem inside the structure they were...
For the Love of LDAP
Over the past 5 years, I have heard the conversation of how do we move our AD to the cloud. Oh the cloud, loud, mild, my child, it's not as easy as you think. There are things in older environments that can tur some people's feathers if it ever glitch or goes down. I...
