Quickly add an email address to Exchange Online with PowerShell

With the little PowerShell script described here, you can quickly add an email address to your Exchange Online account in Office 365. This allows you to easily create throwaway email addresses. Note that the script requires PowerShell 3.0.

By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Tue, April 16, 2013 - 2 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

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FREE: MoW PowerShell WMI Browser

We’ve been looking at a number of tools for exploring WMI. The last one I want to discuss is actually a PowerShell script, but it won’t feel like any PowerShell script you’ve run before. The WMI Explorer was written back in the days of PowerShell 1.0, I believe, by former PowerShell MVP Marc van Orsouw, more familiarly known as MoW.

By Jeffery Hicks - Mon, April 15, 2013 - 0 comments

Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with 20 years of experience. Follow his blog.

PowerShell script to find inactive computers in Active Directory

Inactive computer objects can bloat your Active Directory over time. In this post, I will explain how to use PowerShell to find inactive computers in Active Directory and move them to a designated Organization Unit (OU) for further processing.

By Sitaram Pamarthi - Thu, April 4, 2013 - 0 comments

Sitaram Pamarthi is working as a Windows Engineer and his special fields of interest are PowerShell, Active Directory, Exchange, and virtualization.

FREE: WMI Administrative Tools – WMI Object Browser and WMI CIM Studio

In previously published articles I demonstrated how to use the free WBEMTest utility to validate connectivity and credentials. While you can use WBEMTest to browse namespaces, classes and instances it is hardly intuitive. You are better off with a WMI Explorer or Browser.

By Jeffery Hicks - Tue, April 2, 2013 - 0 comments

Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with 20 years of experience. Follow his blog.

Enable Remote Desktop on remote computers with PowerShell

Remote Desktop is not enabled on Windows systems by default. The PowerShell script described here allows you to enable Remote Desktop access on remote computers.

By Sitaram Pamarthi - Fri, March 22, 2013 - 3 comments

Sitaram Pamarthi is working as a Windows Engineer and his special fields of interest are PowerShell, Active Directory, Exchange, and virtualization.