Group Policy How-To – Folders
Whenever we get a new client, one of the first things we do is create a new folder on the root of C called temp. If that client has a group policy we create a policy just for that. This guide is a simple one, it's how to create a folder with group policy. This post...
Powershell HTML Reports
From time to time, you will be asked to create a web report with data that can only be easily obtained by PowerShell. There are hundreds of modules out there that can do this, which is very nice. This blog isn't about those modules, but instead some tricks I have...
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Stale DNS
This one was a fun one that really threw me for a loop. DNS is an issue no matter where you go. Recently facebook showed the world how DNS can take everything down. DNS in your domain is very important to keep alive and healthy. Having items sit in your DNS is deadly...
Enable/Disable/Reset MFA with Powershell
How does one enable, disable, and reset a user's MFA in Office 365? I was surprised by how much is required for enabling MFA. Enable MFA The first thing we do is Get the User from the Get-MsolUser. $user = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $UPN Next, we create a Strong...
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Delegation
A while back, a client called and told me he made a few new group policies, and they were not working as expected. He stated some policies applied to the wrong users, while another didn't apply at all to any users. He stated he set the security group correctly. When I...
Test Microsoft Service Connections
This past week I have had multiple terminals up with different clients on different terminals connected to different Microsoft services. I quickly realized that I needed to know if I was already connected or not to each Microsoft service. I knew that Get-PPSession was...
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Internet Explorer
Any IT professional will tell you, technology changes almost daily. Some things seem like they will never change then bam, it changes. For example the dependency on IE. In the 90s and most of the 20s it was IE. Firefox and Chrome started back then but didn't really...
Find Duplicates in an Array
Need to find duplicates in an array? It's as simple as using a group object. So we take an array, and group the array by property or group of properties. Then we search those groups for any group that has a count of 2 or greater. Then we display those groups. Here is...
Group Policy Trouble Shooting – Conference Call
I have been working with group policy recently and have been enjoying it. I wanted to share this knowledge with the rest of the world. I’m going to do that through a few scenarios. This first part is gathering information. More information you have, the more likely...
