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Use Powershell to download the latest offline definition updates for Microsoft Forefront Client Security, Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

Andrew Armstrong6 months ago6 months ago02 mins

This post will show you how to download the latest anti-malware definition updates for Microsoft Forefront Client Security, Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection using Powershell commands. Step by Step Guide Windows x86 (32-bit) To download the definition updates files for 32-bit (x86-based) versions of Windows, run the following…

Export Powershell to CSV

Andrew Armstrong7 months ago6 months ago02 mins

To export PowerShell to CSV file, you can use the Export-Csv cmdlet. Here’s an example: This command gets a list of all running processes, selects the process name, ID, and CPU usage, and sorts the list by CPU usage in descending order. This command exports the data to a CSV file named “processes.csv” in the…

How to Disable IPv6 on all Network Connections

Andrew Armstrong12 months ago6 months ago01 mins

Depending on your environment, you may want to disable IPv6 on all networking connections, including wired and wireless connections. To do this, you can use a simple PowerShell script: Once you have run this script, you can go ahead and check the IPv6 settings on the target machine and you should see that it is…

How to add or remove multiple sccm application deployments

Add or Remove Multiple Application Deployments in SCCM using Powershell

Andrew Armstrong2 years ago6 months ago09 mins

Problem Scenario When using SCCM, you may find that you want to either add or remove application deployments based on what administrative categories each application has assigned. As an example, we had a number of applications for the Marketing department that were only distributed to a Marketing collection we had set up with only Marketing…

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Remove Windows Server Disabled Roles and Features Payload Files

Andrew Armstrong4 years ago6 months ago03 mins

If you are running a Windows Server environment and you are becoming increasing low on system drive space, then you may want to consider removing the built in payload files for Windows Features. Windows Server comes with the payload files readily available if you want to add any additional Features or Roles to your server….

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Exchange Shell – All Permissions on all Mailboxes

Andrew Armstrong4 years ago6 months ago03 mins

We carried out a project recently which was to migrate around 150 mailboxes to the Office 365 (Exchange Online) platform. Part of scope of works that was required was to provide the team leaders within the business a list of all the mailboxes and what permissions they had on them. This was mostly a housekeeping…

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Get OU Distinguished Name

Andrew Armstrong4 years ago6 months ago03 mins

There are many reasons as to why you would need to identify an Active Directory Organisational Unit’s Distinguished Name. Most techies out there will use an AD distinguished name when writing or using PowerShell scripts. However, quickly finding what the Distinguished name of a particular OU is not immediately clear. You can click on the…

System Center Operations Manager Invalid Management Group Removal

Andrew Armstrong5 years ago6 months ago05 mins

We recently carried out some work for a client who had a completely ruined installation of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Who had done what to it, we may never know, but it was clear that the only fix was to start again. This was not such a bad thing as they did want to…

Get folders and sizes for all mailboxes using Exchange Shell

Andrew Armstrong5 years ago6 months ago05 mins

We recently had a request to provide to our Project Management team, a full list of all Exchange mailboxes with all folders within each mailbox and also the total sizes of each folder for each mailbox. This came as a bit of a shock to us and we still have no idea why they wanted…

Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information

Andrew Armstrong5 years ago6 months ago03 mins

Following on from our previous post about how IT professionals can use the tools available to them to make their lives easier, we have another Exchange Management Shell (EMS) script which will get all the information available from all Shared Mailboxes including the sizes of each mailbox. Guide Open up the Exchange Management Script tool…

Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV

Andrew Armstrong5 years ago6 months ago04 mins

Sometimes as IT professionals, we get asked to supply a lot of data to company bosses. This can be extremely frustrating especially when what you want to do is fix stuff, but IT is becoming more and more like an admin role all the time. It doesn’t mean you stop fixing stuff, it just means…

Powershell – Export Active Directory User Last logged on information to CSV

Andrew Armstrong5 years ago6 months ago02 mins

If you want to export all your Active Directory users last logged on information, you can carry this out using Powershell and then exporting to CSV format. Guide First of all, you will need to import the ActiveDirectory module if you have not already done so. To do this, just open up a Powershell command…

Powershell – Export all members of all AD Security Groups to CSV

Andrew Armstrong5 years ago6 months ago03 mins

Powershell is an awesome tool and can help IT professionals in gathering information in a split second whereas otherwise it could take hours manually. We were recently asked to carry out a number of tasks for information gathering for annual housekeeping. The tasks were varied but were made up of information from Active Directory and…

Exchange Shell – Get all shared mailboxes with primary SMTP

Andrew Armstrong5 years ago6 months ago92 mins

We recently received a request to provide a project manager with a full list of all shared mailboxes with their primary SMTP addresses that were in Microsoft Exchange. To do this is a pretty straight forward task using Exchange Management Shell (EMS). Just go ahead and open your EMS and run the following command: This…

Import Active Directory Powershell Module

Andrew Armstrong5 years ago6 months ago01 mins

If you want to use Active Directory modules for Powershell then you can will need to run the commands to import the required module and then install the RSAT tools. To do this, open up an elevated Powershell command box and run the following command to import the Server Manager module: Import-Module ServerManager Once that…

Start a stopped service on multiple devices using Powershell

Andrew Armstrong6 years ago6 months ago03 mins

Following on from our recent guide about restarting a service on multiple devices, we were also asked about starting a stopped service using a similar method. This is pretty simple and can be carried out in almost exactly the same way. Powershell Script So to carry this out, you should create a txt file with…

Restart a service on multiple devices using Powershell

Andrew Armstrong6 years ago6 months ago13 mins

We recently had a requirement to restart a single service on multiple devices across a single network. At first, it was going to be the job of the helpdesk to logon to each device and manually restart this service. However, as usual, there is always a way of using Powershell to speed up such tasks….

Enable Windows Remote Desktop Protocol and Set Firewall Rules using PowerShell

Andrew Armstrong6 years ago6 months ago121 mins

If you are using Windows Server 2012 or newer, or if you are just using Windows Server Core, then this Powershell script will help you out by enabling Remote Desktop and setting the correct firewall inbound rules. Simply open up an elevated Powershell command box, or use Powershell ISE and use the two scripts below,…

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Powershell

Use Powershell to download the latest offline definition updates for Microsoft Forefront Client Security, Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

Export Powershell to CSV

How to Disable IPv6 on all Network Connections

Add or Remove Multiple Application Deployments in SCCM using Powershell

Remove Windows Server Disabled Roles and Features Payload Files

Exchange Shell – All Permissions on all Mailboxes

Get OU Distinguished Name

System Center Operations Manager Invalid Management Group Removal

Get folders and sizes for all mailboxes using Exchange Shell

Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information

Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV

Powershell – Export Active Directory User Last logged on information to CSV

Powershell – Export all members of all AD Security Groups to CSV

Exchange Shell – Get all shared mailboxes with primary SMTP

Import Active Directory Powershell Module

Start a stopped service on multiple devices using Powershell

Restart a service on multiple devices using Powershell

Enable Windows Remote Desktop Protocol and Set Firewall Rules using PowerShell