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Listing Actual vs Expected DNS Records for a Microsoft 365 Tenant with PowerShell

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In this post we will be looking at how we can list actual vs expected DNS records for a Microsoft 365 tenant with PowerShell.

Office 365 updates stop working when workloads are switched to Intune

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The following post will highlight a scenario where Office 365 Updates stop working for clients that have the Office C2R Apps workload moved to Intune. This was a “Think and write it down blog” so my apologies for the structure (or lack of it) - I hope you can still follow my train of thought.

Deploy custom Microsoft Teams backgrounds, easily, with PowerShell and Intune

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This one has been in my blog queue for a while. @stuffygibbon did a shout out on Twitter so I thought I’d bring this post forward and show you how you can deploy a PowerShell script from Intune to install a custom background for your Microsoft Teams users!

Azure AD Groups - in a nutshell

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Not the longest post in the world but “Groups” are going to be quite pivotal in how you manage users and devices in Azure AD. In this post we will cover the basic Azure AD group and membership types. We will also look at how we can create Groups in both the Azure AD Portal and by using PowerShell.

Installing the OneDrive Sync Client in "Per-Machine" mode during your Task Sequence for a lightening fast "first logon" experience

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Background

One of the things I have been trying to improve is the users “first logon” experience in Windows 10. Waiting for the OneDrive sync client to “do its thing” reminded me of that one kid in the class that could be awesome if they tried harder. After the user profile is created (another post coming soon on tweaking the speed of this), OneDriveSetup.exe was called from the Default User Hive “Run” key. If OneDrive wasn’t installed in the User’s Profile (unlikely for a new profile), it would go and throw the binaries in %localappdata%, check for updates, twiddle its thumbs and eventually download some files or stubs.

Generate Office 365 PAC Files with PowerShell

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

If you have a proxy server in your environment and are using (or thinking about using) Office 365 then you will hit some pain barriers. As awesome as Office 365 is, she just isn’t a fan of proxies.

Install Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Quick post this afternoon on how to install the Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module. The latest version in the PowerShell Gallery at the time of writing this post is 0.9.5. More info on this module can be found at https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/0.9.5

Connect to SharePoint Online using PowerShell

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

So you want to do some PowerShell stuff in SharePoint Online. You will need the “SharePoint Online Global Administrator” permission to perform the connection. Before we do that, lets check if we have the SharePoint Online Management Shell already installed.

Modify OneDrive Site Admins with PowerShell

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In our previous post Office 365 – Access a Users OneDrive Folder we looked at giving an Admin access to a users OneDrive files. In this post we will focus on adding and removing Site Admins, on a users Personal SharePoint Site (OneDrive), using PowerShell.

Office 365 - Access a Users OneDrive Folder

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I thought I would dig a little deeper on this cool little feature in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Administrators are able to select a user and “Access” that users OneDrive files. Cool for a number of scenarios, so Microsoft believe to create this feature, but it does comes with a caveat. (Read post before implementing). Let’s first see how, as an Administrator, we can do this.