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Manage Multiple Office 365 Tenants from PowerShell

July 28, 2016 by Robert Pearman 14 Comments

Yep, another PowerShell themed post.

This is something I cobbled together a few years back, never thought it was worth sharing, but sitting here this evening with nothing much to do decided to write it up.

At it’s core it is not much more than a method of automating entering credentials to your various Office 365 ‘Clients’. I say ‘’clients” because I do not know if that is the correct terminology. If you are the Partner of Record or even if you are supporting more than one tenant on 365 this may be useful to you.

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Filed under General, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Automation, Office 365, PowerShell

Populating Active Directory with Computer Information

June 4, 2015 by Robert Pearman Leave a comment

Here is a very quick tip i have employed to good effect at client sites.

It goes back to this very cool command i shared a few years ago now, here. Read more of this post

Filed under General, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Audit, Computers, PowerShell, Serial Number, WMI

Office 365 Email Password Reminder

January 23, 2015 by Robert Pearman 62 Comments

Regular readers will no doubt be aware of the script i wrote about two years ago to alert a user their password was about to expire. If not, just what exactly have you been doing with your time?

In any case, several people have asked me if it can be made to work with Office 365. Using 365 as the email relay to send the messages, was one thing, querying 365 for a users password expiry, was something else. Something which at the time i believe could not be done.

Given they constantly release new features and tweaks, i revisited it this week and found that actually it can now be done, with a few tweaks to the original script.

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Filed under Exchange, General, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Email, Office 365, Password, PowerShell

Quick Fix: Uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection Remotely

January 22, 2015 by Robert Pearman 2 Comments

Finally moving my last client from Symantec SEPM to Trend Micros WFBS Hosted platform. It was a small SEPM deployment, only 7 clients and a server but i was surprised to be reminded that SEPM has no ‘uninstall’ tool from their console. So much for centralised management.

I did a lot of searching around for a reliable solution, most of which came back to using MSIEXEC from a command line.

There are various ways of course to execute a command on a remote machine, you can use PSTools’, PSExec for example, but i prefer to use PowerShell where i can. Read more of this post

Filed under General, PowerShell, Quick Fix, Tips & Tricks Tagged with End Point Protection, PowerShell, Symantec, Version 12

Quick Fix: Hide users from Essentials 2012 R2 Dashboard

September 18, 2014 by Robert Pearman 19 Comments

If you have installed Exchange 2013 into your Essentials network, chances are upon loading the dashboard you will see a large amount of new users appear, you may even notice an alert telling you, you have too many users!

These are all of the exchange service accounts, and you may decide you don’t want them to appear in your dashboard.

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Filed under Essentials, General, Quick Fix, Tips & Tricks, WSE Tagged with Dashboard, Essentials 2012 R2, PowerShell

Windows Server Essentials–Client Backup Monitoring

September 18, 2014 by Robert Pearman 4 Comments

Just a quick post to say i have posted a script that works with GFIs RMM platform to monitor Client Backups for Windows Server Essentials.

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Filed under Backup, Essentials, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks, WSE Tagged with Backup, Essentials, GFI, PowerShell

Password Change Reminder PowerShell Script Updated!

September 18, 2014 by Robert Pearman 10 Comments

Back in 2012 i wrote a script to help me remind users about their password expiry, to reduce the number of calls i got on the helpdesk. I decided to share it and published it on the TechNet Gallery,