itramblings – Ramblings of an IT manager

Various ramblings in and around the IT landscape.

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

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

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 Exchange, Scripting

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 Development, Scripting, Utilities

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. […]

Reset SSSD ID Cache when connected to AD

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Linux, Scripting

If you are using SSSD to connect your linux box to AD then you might need to reset the cache that is used with mapping ids (uid and guid) to AD. If so here is quick set of commands to help do exactly that I found this useful tip on strackoverflow

How to Deploy the Sophos XG Firewall on Microsoft Azure using Powershell (Imperative method)

May 29, 2022May 30, 2022 Microsoft

This is a repost from here Why use this method when you can deploy through the Azure Portal? The deployment of the Sophos XG firewall appliance through the new Azure Portal only allows up to two network interface cards. If you will like to have more than two networks connecting to the XG firewall, you’ll […]