An IT Automation blog. PowerShell, Linux, and more. By Ryan Milne
After writing part 4, I realised that I need to get some of this blog’s scripts into source control. Furthermore, it only makes sense that I store them in an online repository to share the scripts publicly. If you aren’t…
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At this point we are able to build our basic function that can obtain the MsolUser and Mailbox from a single Identity parameter. First, let’s put our code from parts 2 and 3 into functions, add some Debug output, and…
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In a previous post dnscrypt-proxy: Installing on Debian / Raspbian Jessie, I went through the steps to install dnscrypt-proxy and its dependency using checkinstall, so that they can be managed with dpkg. I’ve recently discovered an alternative installation method, which…
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At home I have a MikroTik router/firewall; specifically an RB2011UIAS-RM. My Virgin Super Hub is in modem-only mode, leaving the MikroTik to handle all of the networking functions. Just as a bit of an introduction / side-note, MikroTiks are amazing…
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In the previous part, we explored how we can handle the errors from Get-MsolUser as part of our larger Get-MITUser function. We would hope we could handle Get-Mailbox in the same way.
So a big part of our all-in-one Get-User cmdlet Get-MITUser, is that it needs to try obtaining both the MsolUser from Office 365, and the Mailbox from Exchange Online. Imagine this first as a manual process with “john@example.com”. It would…
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After installing dnscrypt-proxy, at this point I diverge from the Shell Hacks guide when configuring it. In particular they did this with rc.local, whereas nowadays on Debian Jessie we use systemd units instead. To elaborate a bit more on my…
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Update 5th Feb 2017: Before installing dnscrypt-proxy using this guide, please read dnscrypt-proxy: Alternative install method for Debian / Raspbian Jessie, which outlines an easier and arguably superior method for installation. I’m taking a quick detour from the Windows world…
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Every Exchange administrator has probably faced this scenario at least a few times: You have an email address, and need to find out – who does it belong to? Back when Exchange was new to you, you probably started by…
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