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Troubleshooting my Password Change Notification script

September 17, 2014 by Robert Pearman 24 Comments

I regularly receive questions on my PowerShell Script for Password Change Notification. Whilst i have tried to keep the Q&A limited to the Technet Gallery page, it occurred to me i might be better off putting together a basic troubleshooting guide a bit like a FAQ.

What you have to understand is i am inherently lazy, which is why i wrote the script in the first place, and being a bit short on ideas for posts.. well, here we are.

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Filed under General, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Email, Password, PowerShell, Reminder

Did you know.. Customising your PowerShell Window

September 16, 2014 by Robert Pearman Leave a comment

Some time ago i read a blog or forum entry that mentioned being able to customise your PowerShell Window with alternate background colours much like you could with the old Command Prompt. It was one of those thing i thought was cool but would look at later. So today i decided to get this done. I did sit and think about whether or not to even write this up as a post, given i am not really coming up with anything new and just linking to what other people have done, but then i thought, well without people doing that the internet would be a much smaller place.

So, first i did a search for customising your PowerShell profile.

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Filed under General, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Admin, Customise, PowerShell

Password Change Reminder PowerShell Script Updated!

May 13, 2014 by Robert Pearman 81 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,

It has been quite popular since then, with over 8,000 downloads!

Throughout that time i have received a number of questions about how to tweak the script to do various things or fix bugs and errors that people have found.

I have been tweaking it as i go, without much notification to anyone. I have just finished quite a big change, so i thought i would put up a post here, to let people know.

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Filed under General, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Password, PowerShell, Reminder

WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN!

March 31, 2014 by Robert Pearman 7 Comments

Are you ready to WIN?!? ARE YOU READY TO WIN?!?!?

If you are at all interested in Office 365 then you should really also be interested in PowerShell. If i told you, you can manage Office 365, through PowerShell, would you be even more interested? Excited even?

Well if that sounds like you, and you think you have what it takes then you may well be in with a chance of taking a way a free eBook courtesy of Office 365 MVP and all around nice guy Robert Crane.

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Filed under General, PowerShell Tagged with Office 365, PowerShell, Win

Windows Server 2012–Failed Backup Disk

November 12, 2013 by Robert Pearman 6 Comments

This is a quick post just based on something i have done this morning for a charity i do some volunteer support for. This year i installed a new server for them running Windows Server 2012, and two Hyper-V guests as a Domain Controller and Exchange server. Due to budget restraints they only had a single USB drive available for backups, and of course, recently that failed.