Following up on my 003 post on usage aggregates…. Apologies for the article’s delayed timing. Breadcrumbs After revealing these aggregates, I thought to myself, what ‘usage’ is being aggregated. AND. Are there any PowerShell cmdlets with ‘Usage’ in them? Well. Let’s find out!! ** Note ** That ‘.’ in the module name is VERY important….
Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer – Change in Progress
In the past few months Microsoft has been making subtle and not so subtle changes to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer. You may not even recognize it in it’s current form if you have used it in the past and are coming back to it for troubleshooting. In this blog post we will briefly examine each…
Teams PowerShell [002]
In the first blog post in this series we covered a lot of basic information about what can be done with a pair of cmdlets: Get-Team and Set-Team. These two cmdlets provided a good basic understanding of some team functions. Now there are plenty of other cmdlets for Teams so for this blog article we…
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Recommended Configuration Analyzer (ORCA)
One of the challenges of managing an email system in the cloud is knowing what best practices should be applied. If a tenant has E5 licenses, then an additional set of features are available to configure, name the Advance Threat Protection suite. Microsoft field techs have created a PowerShell module to help with assessing your…
Teams PowerShell [001]
Series Introduction For the past year or two, the company I work for has turned Teams into a core source of how we collaborate. We create Teams for internal stuff (org groups, internal projects, initiatives, etc). We also create teams for our project work as we are a consulting firm. This is all well and…
PowerShell Quick References
For those who are just starting down the road of PowerShell to those who have used PowerShell for some time, having a reference sheet (or sheets) could prove useful. As a heavy user of PowerShell, having some sort of reference is always nice to have, even if I only use it every once in a…
New HCW – Updating your Hybrid Configuration Wizard
Within the past month, Microsoft has released a new Hybrid Configuration Wizard or HCW. The past version of this program was version 16.x and with the latest update, Microsoft has created a brand new REV, hence the 17.x version moniker. What does this mean? It means that you will have a much better experience when…
Azure Adventures [004]
As I have a personal interest in working with Virtual Machines in Azure I started to dive into the Compute module for Azure PowerShell. In the past I’ve typically worked with Azure VMs and their resources through only the Azure Portal. The portal offers an interesting experience when working with virtual machines. Thankfully this process…
Azure Virtual Machine Creation Process
** Warning ** This article contains NO PowerShell. So. Just be forewarned. Now on to the blog article! Microsoft is putting a lot of work into their graphical user interfaces (GUI) for many of their workloads in Office 365. From the new Exchange Admin Center, to improvements in the Security and Compliance Center, the main…
Azure Adventures [003]
This post is a bit delayed due to my publishing two books within the span of one week. Not intentionally done, but it is what it is. Now. On to our latest post. Azure Adventures #3 We are now on the fourth Azure Adventure post and we covered a lot of basic tenant and user…
