We had a new Widget arrive in the house recently, and it required a connection to the Wi-Fi network. It was duly connected to the untrusted ‘IoT’ network, where it’s denied Internet access by default. It WASN’T happy. The supplier assured me it *didn’t* require Internet access, so I set about finding out what was …
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Windows natively won’t let you schedule a system shutdown, but there are plenty of posts on the Internet that show you how to create a Scheduled Task that will do that for you. Having recently added a solar+battery setup to our home, I’ve been on a (belated) mission to reduce our overnight power consumption, and …
As a consultant I move from project to project, usually meeting a bunch of new people each time, imparting some wisdom, and moving on. One of the highlights for me is what I learn from the people that I encounter along the way. And so it was that I met Neil East in Canberra, and …
For several years we’ve used a basic data backup program that exploits the archive bit on files to determine if they need to be backed up or not. We run a weekly full backup with daily differentials. After the weekly backup is run, the archive bit is reset on all files, ready for the next …
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Here’s a “one-liner” I came up with this week that dumps ALL of the SfB policies in your system ordered by type: PS C:\> Get-Command -Module SkypeForBusiness Get-Cs*Policy | where-object {$_.Name -ne “Get-CsEffectivePolicy”} | ForEach { invoke-expression $_.name } | ft @{Label=”Policy type”; Expression={($_.getType()).ToString().Split(‘.’)[-1]}}, identity -auto This is what it looks like here in the …
Much has been written about how you need to use Begin/Process/End blocks in order to handle a collection of values passed from the pipeline, but those posts all seem to focus on how to do it in a *function*, not a script. I recently struggled to figure out how to retrofit this functionality into one …
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I don’t know about you, but I’m not getting any younger, and my eyes often glaze over when faced with a table of numbers to compare for differences. This is often the case when I issue one of my fave p$ shortcuts to test my SfB server’s databases: Test-csDatabase -LocalService | ft *name,*edver* Do this …
In my line of work RDP is an essential tool. Take it away and you might as well have cut off one of my arms. And so it was this morning where after my Windows 10 machine (running the latest 1803 build) applied updates overnight, all my attempts at RDP-ing to systems presented me with …
Hands up if you’ve tried to compare 2 objects of some type to see what – if any – differences there are between them? I tried and gave up. PowerShell’s native “Compare-Object” isn’t very helpful. It will tell you IF there’s a difference, but it’s not particularly forthcoming. Borne of that experience comes “Compare-Objects.ps1”. You …
At about the same time any given Skype for Business deployment gains its second PSTN gateway / Session Border Controller, the old diagnostician in me wants a means to be able to directly send calls to each one individually. By being able to directly focus my outgoing calls on just one SBC I can confirm …
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