Today I needed to delete the software OTP MFA method from over 2000 accounts in Entra ID. I created a simple script to achieve this and I am sharing it below so it might help you in the future. The script will need a .csv, that file / path you are able to edit. It […]
Read More »Early january Microsoft released KB5074109 which breaks connecting to Remote Desktop via de Windows App. The update had number KB5074109, Microsoft released an OOB (Out of band) update to resolve the issue. [KB5077744] I created 2 scripts so you can fix this for the affected machines remotely (if you are able to execute powershell commands). […]
Read More »Once in a while you as an admin it’s possible that you come across a folder on the fileserver where you need to set permissions for other users, but you as DomainAdmin have no permssions to. When you want to set the permissions you get’Access denied’. Most of the time there is a simple fix, […]
Read More »I needed to create a additional collection on the connection broker for a test environment. When the pool was created on the connection broker, when download the .rdp file from the RDWeb the .rdp file would be missing a lot of details and the computername field also would be empty. I’ve tried a lot of […]
Read More »Today I encountered a situation where whenever a mail with attachment was being forwarded, the mail would lose it’s attachment. Even in the sent items for the shared mailbox the was no attachment to be found. After a lot of troubleshooting I found out that when enabling Outlook Cache mode on the Outlook profile it […]
Read More »I’ve been asked to create favorites in Edge to be rolled out via InTune. The wish was to have a structure with folders and subfolders, like this; Main folder – URL1 – Subfolder — URL2 — SubSubFolder — URL3 I came across a lot of forum posts but could not find a nice template for […]
Read More »When in PowerPoint (or word etc) you can import icons to your slides by going to ‘Insert -> Icons’. You can get a error like below; “An error occurred while importing this file. https://cdn.hubblecontent.osi.office.net/icons/publish/icons_statistics_ltr/statistics_ltr.svg” To fix this issue, open Internet Explorer, go to settings -> advanced -> and search for “Don’t save encrypted pages to […]
Read More »When enrolling devices to InTune and found that the sleep option disappeared from the power settings. After searching too long for this setting I found the configuration. It was ‘hidden’ in the security baselines on 2 locations; #1 – Security Baseline for Windows 10 and later Power -> Standby states when sleeping while on battery […]
Read More »This can happen if a computer/server is offline for a longer period, or is restored from backup and in the meantime the computerobject password is changed. There is an easy fix for this, on the affected machine, login with the local administrator, start powershell and type; reset-computermachinepassword -Server DomainController -Credential DomainAdmin
Read More »Whenever you are migrating to Exchange Online from an On Premise Exchange server and have users both in Exchange Online and in Exchange Online they want to see eachothers calendars. When trying to open a shared calendar, they will get a logon prompt pop-up, you can enter your credentials but it will not work. To […]
Read More »When deleting an AD object, it will (if the Recycle bin is enabled) be moved to the Active Directory recycle bin. Sometimes you want to permamently remove the object, for example if you want to recreate a pc or server with the same name. To do this, open PowerShell and type in the following commands; […]
Read More »Today I needed to create a overview of all users with any Admin role within any tenant we manage as a Microsoft Service Provider (msp). While searching I found two other scripts which I used and combined to make my own version, see the at the bottom of this post for the sources I used. […]
Read More »Today i needed to change the TimeZone for a lot of sites, when searching online i found some other scripts but i found them too complicated and needed something easier to manage. I combined and script some other script and came up with this: # Define variable $adminurl = https://tenantname-admin.sharepoint.com $timezone = “(UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlijn, […]
Read More »I was asked to force a password reset for all users in the tenant. This request was easy at first but for some reason not all users were forces to change their password. What i did was connect to Microsoft Online via PowerShell and run the following commands; Connect-MsolService Get an .csv file with all […]
Read More »I was looking for a way to grant a single user permissions on all sharepoint sites without giving admin permissions. In the end only a single PowerShell command was needed to accomplish this (apart from running ‘Connect-SPOService’) Get-SPOSite | ForEach {Set-SPOUser -Site $_.Url -LoginName info@iterrors.com -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true} Where info@iterrors.com is the username you want to […]
Read More »I had a customer who wanted to run an excelscript daily but wanted to pay as little as possible for virtual machine hosting. I’ve configured the VM to start and stop automatically and used below command to let a user logon automatically at the start of Windows 10. $RegPath = “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon” Set-ItemProperty $RegPath “AutoAdminLogon” […]
Read More »Recently a customer was getting the error code; 0x80070005-0x000004dc-0x00000524 when trying to email ‘sent as’ from a newly created shared mailbox. After searching online I found a lot of potential solutions like; – Make sure only Full Access and Full control are set as permissions, do not use sent on behalf aswell. – Start Outlook […]
Read More »Alot of posts have been written about the late-2019 rolled out feature to create organization library’s. After playing around a bit I’ve decided to make a short manual on how to achieve these 2 types of library’s. General info for this topic I used is: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/organization-assets-library There are two types of Organization asset types; 1. […]
Read More »When you or your client is using OneDrive for Business it might be hard to explain the difference between ‘OneDrive’ and ‘OneDrive for Business’ in the Explorer view, or you just want to remove it from the list. To do this you have to make a change in the Windows registry. # Windows+R type; regedit […]
Read More »Recently I came across some devices who can’t seem to open the new iPhone picture format .heic. I found some sites stating that only Windows needs to be up to date 1903 or higher, but in some cases that still does not resolve this. To resolve this you can install the ‘Video extensions from device […]
Read More »When migrating to SharePoint Online / OneDrive for business, you could get the error: Scan File Failure:The item created time or modified time is not supported This seems because the file or folder doensnt have a (valid) creation date, in my case it had the value “4-3-1601 05:27:48”. To resolve this issue, the files need […]
Read More »When migrating on premises files to SharePoint Online / OneDrive for Business, Microsoft made a simple tool available ‘SharePoint Migration Tool’. Sometimes you will get the ‘Invalid SharePoint Online List’ error like; “Invalid SharePoint Online list ‘Documents’”,”ACTION_STOP”,”0x0201000D” Thanks to Thomasssssss on this technet topic; https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/774100d6-9a6b-4e3e-91b5-8f15f38047f4/quotinvalid-sharepoint-online-list?forum=SharePointMigrationTool i found the solution. So to get this working do […]
Read More »Recently we had a ProxMox environment crash and needed to restore some files inside a VM. We did not want to rebuild the Proxmox environment and could access the virtual harddisk files used by Proxmox, in this case .qcow2 files. There is a nice tool available to convert these files to convienent .vhdx files so […]
Read More »Recently I was asked to change the homedirectory permissions for >4000 users from Full Control, to ready only. I’ve used below powershell commands to achieve this. Firstly we need to get all SamAccountName’s in a .csv list. (Change the searchbase). Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase “OU=www,DC=iterrors,DC=com” | Where { $_.Enabled -eq $True} | select SamAccountName | […]
Read More »To add members and owners to a SharePoint Online TeamSite you have the below commands avaiable: Note that if you need to make someone Owner of the Teamsite, the user first needs to be member! And then you make the user Owner. #Get Groupnames Get-UnifiedGroup #Check for current members Get-UnifiedGroupLinks –Identity “groupname” –LinkType Members #Check […]
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