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Office 365 – Report on Shared Mailboxes

25th May 2021 by jimmy

A quick one-liner, which pulls back a list of shared mailboxes, last logon time, size in MB and item count. Connect to your EXO with connect-exchangeonline then run the below (This can take a while of you have a large amount of shared mailboxes) Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails SharedMailbox -ResultSize:Unlimited | get-mailboxstatistics | select displayname,lastlogon*,@{name=”TotalItemSize (MB)”; expression={[math]::Round(($_.TotalItemSize.ToString().Split(“(“)[1].Split(” …

Twitterbot Commander

18th April 2021 by jimmy

I recently set up an old raspberry pi as a Twitter bot, setting it to tweet a random image every couple of days, using a script I found here I wasn’t happy that there was a fair amount of work to do to both manually create the images.js file that contained a list of all …

AWS Workspaces – Clean up orphaned Managed AD objects

28th February 2021 by jimmy

If you manage a large number of AWS workspaces, chances are you will end up with orphaned computer AD objects cluttering up your domain. This script pulls a list of workspaces, compares it to the list of machines in AWS managed AD and removes any AD computer object without a corresponding workspace. This script requires …

Bulk add devices to Azure AD Group

8th April 202228th February 2021 by jimmy

A simple script, which takes a list of device names in a text file and adds them to the specified Azure AD group. Requires the AzureAD PowerShell module, the script will check for its existence and offer to install it if it is not found. This script can cope with MFA for Azure AD admins. …

O365 Shared Mailbox sent items

13th January 2021 by jimmy

By default, when “sending as” a shared mailbox, the sent items go into the users sent items folder. Unfortunately, it is not possible to change this to be the shared mailbox, but it is possible to put a copy in the shared mailbox’s sent items folder. The below script will enable this for all shared …

O365 Shared Mailboxes – sent items go into users folder

8th December 2020 by jimmy

The default behaviour for items sent from a shared mailbox is to go into the users sent items. We had a requirement to save a copy in the shared mailbox sent items folder. this script modifies the mailbox so that email sent either “on behalf” or “as” the mailbox get copied into the shared mailbox’s …

AWS Workspaces – Count of machine state

7th December 2020 by jimmy

Just a quick 1 liner of powershell to work this one out: get-wksworkspace | Group-Object state | Select-Object name,count | Sort state -Descending Which will give you something like: Name Count —- —– AVAILABLE 279 UNHEALTHY 30 PENDING 72 REBOOTING 2 ERROR 3

Tidy up Always on VPN Connections

6th September 202016th July 2020 by jimmy

We recently moved from a test to live implementation of Always on VPN, and moved our servers behind a load balancer, ratifying out profiles down to a single user and device tunnel. We found that deleting the old connections from Settings still left a bunch of stuff in the registry, so I came up with …

Kemp Loadmaster Config for Windows Always on VPN with IKEv2

3rd April 2020 by jimmy

Like many of you out there, we were suddenly in a position where we needed to ramp up out remote connectivity to cope with the demand driven by Covid-19, after some research, we decided the easiest path was to build some more RAS servers and load-balance them with a pair of Kemp Loadmasters. We followed …

Always on VPN – RAS service hangs with no errors in Event log

24th November 20202nd April 2020 by jimmy

We hit a new issue this week, we were getting failed connections on our Always-on VPN RAS servers, and on checking the servers, it appeared the ras service had hung. No errors in the logs, existing clients dropped off and we couldn’t restart the service, a reboot was the only option. We tracked this down …