PowerShell Inventory Operating Systems in Active Directory
Nov13

PowerShell Inventory Operating Systems in Active Directory

PowerShell Inventory KB ID 0001838 Problem I needed to get a list of operating systems  ‘in-use’ in my active directory this week. bear in mind this will pull information from all enables computer accounts in AD, so if you are ‘not good’ at tidying out old machines and servers you might get a lot of garbage in your output! Solution: PowerShell Inventory Use the following PowerShell. Get-ADComputer -Filter...

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MS Teams Notifications Missing (macOS)
Oct20

MS Teams Notifications Missing (macOS)

Teams Notifications KB ID 0001803 Problem I’ve put up with this for a while, my business pretty much runs on Teams now, so when theres no notification badges on the Teams icon (in the Dock), my response times can be ‘not great’. In fact, usually I get my head down into a job, and check Teams just to see a ‘ton’ of messages that need my input. (Some might think that’s a good way to work,) but when...

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There Is No Editor Registered To Handle This Attribute Type
Sep27

There Is No Editor Registered To Handle This Attribute Type

KB ID 0001837 Problem If you attempt to edit the authOrig attribute of a mail enabled group using ADSIedit you will get the following error. There is no editor registered to handle this attribute type. Why would you be doing this? This is done when you want to restrict who can email a group. Solution If you are running either on-premises Microsoft Exchange (or are running in Hybrid Exchange mode, and have retained an Exchange server...

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Exchange: Object Reference Not Set To An Instance Of An Object
Sep19

Exchange: Object Reference Not Set To An Instance Of An Object

Object Reference Not Set KB ID 0001836 Problem This has plagued me for a while – but as the server was my test server it’s had to wait. When attempting to open the Exchange Admin Center website I got the following; Server Error in ‘/ecp’ Application Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Object Reference Not Set: Solution First stop was to make sure all the Exchange services were running....

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Excel: Calculate Cost, Margin, Sell Price
Sep08

Excel: Calculate Cost, Margin, Sell Price

KB ID 0001835 Problem Occasionally at work I need to work out what the sale price / retail price will be for something would be (given that I know the cost and the % margin). That’s easy to work out. But sometimes I get given the sell / retail price and I know the margin used, and I then must work out what the cost will be. Ordinarily if it’s a quick question I’ll just use and online margin calculator. But if I have a LOT of...

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Delegate LAPS Administration
Sep04

Delegate LAPS Administration

LAPS Administration KB ID 0001834 Problem I saw this asked on a forum this morning and, went to test the answer (and create an article if successful), to find out the posted answer and most of the info I found online was for Microsoft LAPS and not the newer Windows LAPS. Windows LAPS Laps Administration Let’s say we have an OU called Computers (with my computers in) and I want to grant read permissions to LAPS password to a security...

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