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...
by Rocky Beaven | Apr 10, 2025 | Windows 10/11
After the first login following an in-place upgrade to Windows 11 (24H2 in this instance), an error dialogue from the ‘Program Compatibility Assistant’ was shown that suggested a security setting was preventing a specific driver from loading on the device....
by Rocky Beaven | Mar 7, 2025 | Miscellaneous
If you have configured a PC to never sleep – for remote access for example – and find that after a time it still becomes uncontactable over the network, but is perfectly alive and responsive when logging on locally, you may have fallen foul of the built-in...
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