by Rocky Beaven | Jan 14, 2026 | Miscellaneous, Software
A recently updated Veeam B&R console install then produced a rather annoying pop-up every time it was launched. Clicking Yes in the dialogue allowed the program to run, but seemingly did nothing as it reappeared next time. This appears to have been happening to...
by Rocky Beaven | Jan 8, 2026 | Microsoft 365, PowerShell
The default auto-archive policy for Exchange Online mailboxes moves messages older than 2 years to the in-place archive mailbox. If you want to adjust the timing, you can login to the Microsoft Purview portal and create your own retention tag and policy and apply it...
by Rocky Beaven | Dec 11, 2025 | Microsoft 365, PowerShell
A tenant in Microsoft 365 was utilising the contact information fields for users to populate auto-signatures and also generate the Org Explorer view in Outlook. Needing to query this information, and a simple CSV output would suffice for starters, proved to be more...
by Rocky Beaven | Aug 20, 2025 | Miscellaneous
To add a domain account to the local Administrators group on a machine that is domain joined, but is remote from the business network (with no VPN) at the time, and with the machine signed in as the domain user that needs to have the additional rights: Gain remote...
by Rocky Beaven | May 19, 2025 | PowerShell, Server 201x
Finding the last ‘logon’ time of a domain computer is not as straightforward as you might think, i.e. there is no column to select in ADU&C. Note that we are looking for the last time the domain-joined machine made contact with the domain...
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