Ben Whitmore

Systems Architect @PatchMyPC | Microsoft Security MVP

Office 365 Migration - User Attribute Discovery and Export using Powershell

Identity is key. I cannot emphasise this enough as you begin to move workloads into Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Skye for Business Online. One of the first pieces of advice you should have been given is the user UPN should match the primary SMTP address. Here is why:-

  1. The UPN in Office 365 becomes the default SIP address in Skype for Business Online.
  2. Office (inc Office for IOS) and OneDrive require the UPN to match the email address.

SCCM Report to group number of outstanding updates, for a collection, in 30 day intervals

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https://byteben.com/bb/sccm-software-compliance-report-filtered-by-update-classification-and-update-age/

I wasn’t getting what i needed from the built in SCCM SSRS Reports. Admins were asking for it to be made easier to understand how bad the number of outstanding updates were for the systems they have ownership of. For example, how many of the outstanding updates are 0-30 days old or 60+ days old.

Mobile Strike Account

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All statistics are accurate as of 8/8/16 22:00GMT

AppSense Outlook Signature and other Profile Information Lost

When a user logs on and launches Microsoft Outlook, some profile information is lost. The most obvious side effect for us was the user losing their Outlook Signature.

Move-ActiveMailboxDatabase Error: Content index catalog files in the following state: 'Failed' Exchange 2010

So we came across this when attempting a “Move-ActiveMailboxDatabase” powershell command to mount a mailbox database copy in our DAG. We have a powershell script that mounts all DBS on one exchange server so we can do maintenance on the other. 

Cannot send or receive mail on Blackberry Device for mailbox on newly created Exchange 2010 Database

So you created a new Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database but all mailbox users you move to or create in this database cannot send or receive mail on their Blackberry device?  Permissions, permissions, permissions…

LANDesk 9.5 SP1 Inventory Scan Missing 32-bit Applications from Add or Remove Programs Inventory

So you have upgraded your LDMS Core and Agents to 9.5 SP1. Everything looks tickety boo and you notice some of your software queries are not working anymore. Upon further investigation you notice that you are missing applications in “add and remove programs” in your software inventory. The ldiscn32.exe packaged in SP1 is not returning 32-bit applications to your inventory. Bumpers! Run for the hills…

AppSense Environment Manager Event IDs

AppSense DesktopNow offers the tech heads among us a wide range of Event IDs that can be generated from the endpoint CCA (Client Communications Agent). Some are classed as “High Priority Events”. These are non configurable and are sent direct to the AMC (AppSense Managment Centre) database via HTTP from the endpoint when they are generated. Other, configurable, events are sent by the CCA to the AMC database during the default poll period set on the distribution group.