itramblings – Ramblings of an IT manager

Various ramblings in and around the IT landscape.

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A useful script for enabling/disabling HD LEDs in a server running TrueNAS

December 16, 2024 FreeNas

If you happen to have a large storage array and are running TrueNAS, this script might come in handy. It makes it easy to turn on/off the LED lights associated with the drive bays (assuming your drive bays do have them) To run it, its as simple as this

Cheat Sheet: Expand LVM volume on linux

November 3, 2024 Linux

Source: https://packetpushers.net/ubuntu-extend-your-default-lvm-space/ I didn’t have to follow all that’s in there so to keep it short, use these commands. Run this first: Now, run this second command: Done! Refresh your Cloudron dashboard and check stats page. No reboot needed.

PowerShell Script to add users to Microsoft Team Sites and Channels in bulk

February 7, 2023May 3, 2023 Scripting, Microsoft Office

Ever found your self looking for a way to add a group of users to a team site and one or more channels in bulk? I was in that situation the other day and decided to see if there was an easy way to take care of it using PowerShell. The following script is what […]

How to cleanup exchange log files using powershell

January 5, 2023 Scripting, Exchange

I found an excellent article here that provided a nice PowerShell script to help automate the cleanup of Exchange related log files (tested on 2013/2016/2019). I made a few modifications to add the following functonality Support for command line parameters for base paths and number of days to keep Support for WhatIf Parameter Loading of […]

Compare Microsoft Teams User List against a CSV file using PowerShell

November 29, 2022 Utilities, Development, Scripting

I was looking for a why to bulk add a list of users into a Microsoft Teams Group however before I did that I wanted to compare the list of users in the team group with a list of users that I pulled from another system. With this goal in mind I pulled together the […]

How to handle permissions for Hyper-V disks

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Virtualization

This is a repost from this article I recently created a large number of Hyper-V virtual machines as a part of an educational video series that I am about to produce. During the process of shuffling some resources around, I discovered an odd permissions problem related to Hyper-V virtual hard disks in Windows Server 2016. […]