If you’ve ever had the pleasure of working with the built-in O365 cmdlets for viewing and modifying licenses you’ve probably come across: Set-MsolUserLicense : Unable to assign this license because it is invalid. Use the Get-MsolAccountSku cmdlet to retrieve a list of valid licenses. In every instance I ran across this “error” it was because […]
The vast majority of active directory powershell cmdlets don’t need any enhancement but there is one in particular that I felt could use an alteration: Get-ADGroupMember. When using this command it will return [Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADObject] types which can be thrown to a switch statement depending on objectclass and you will get the object’s home AD info. However, when […]
I had my first experience creating gold images with Windows XP SP2. If I recall correctly I was able to draw down total base process count to ~30, freeing up as much of the 512MB RAM as possible, all while having a 25 character license key burned into memory. Time marches on, capture methods change, and […]
I wanted to get a little more familiar with both HAProxy config and Vagrant so put the two together and bam, magic! Sort of. After trying multiple Vagrantfile config options to set a static IP I gave up; my custom CentOS7 network config would get wiped shortly after boot*. I then began testing with ifcfg […]
I don’t normally need a remote GUI desktop on my linux VMs but I wanted to test Vagrant and easily monitor VirtualBox status with multiple terminals open at the same time. So after a few Google searches to determine why my remote connection is failing to start I’m boiling it down to the steps below. These […]
In a follow up to the O365 powershell module install post I added a new script on Github to connect to the various services. The initial version is pretty light on validation but it will get you connected to 5 different O365 providers assuming the various prereqs have been installed and your admin account has […]