In 2014 one of our techs released a hammer for a password expiry report. Over the last few years it has been updated several times, and as such we are releasing this updated hammer.
Category: Microsoft
Here at Tech With a Hammer we have found a few of our clients use volume licensing from Microsoft for their Office 2016 installations and were affected by the notorious update KB4011039, which was supposed to be a security update for Word 2016. The following hammer can be used to automate the uninstall process.
Recently, here at Tech With a Hammer, one of our technicians was hammering away at a mailbox in Office365, only to find permissions from Set-MailboxPermission still did not grant a user access to the subfolders of the mailbox. In this hammer we will provide you a script that can be used to perform a shotgun […]
Working in a Windows Domain environment, whether it is in the larger campus size enterprise environments or the small medium business markets, it is likely you will come across Remote Desktop Services. Remote Desktop Services rely on having a valid certificate being used by all the services on all servers, or to have a self-signed […]
As hardware becomes old, the operating system running on it, whether it is a virtual machine running in a hypervisor or it’s a bare metal install, will start to exhibit what we here at Tech With a Hammer like to call “Ghost In the Machine Issues”. There will be inexplicable issues, like network drop outs […]
Recently one of our technicians was working on migration of mailboxes from an on-premise Exchange server to the online services of Office 365. During this process we had found that the on-site Exchange server was of the 2007 variety. Working with the first public iteration of PowerShell, we created the following hammer to list all […]
With more and more small/medium businesses moving their email hosting to the cloud, we are finding that current UserPrincipalNames are either not usable in the cloud due to the domain name used or we would prefer not to. After setting up a few clients, we here at Tech With a Hammer, decided there must be […]
In some environments, and depending on the user training, Exchange admins may run into a shared mailbox in which there are limitless folders and subfolders. Instead of the users administrating the permissions and access to their shared mailboxes and the folders, the administrators are usually the ones that will perform these tasks. It is tedious […]
We keep running into the issue where in many networks, some only 5 user and other 150+ user environments, users forget to change their passwords every 90 days. Even though we have the domains configured to start warning them 7 days ahead of time, they seem to ignore the little bubble. Anyone that has ever […]
There came a time where we needed to perform some system enumeration in a large Environment, verify which subnet these servers were in, if the DNS records still existed, and if the servers were still active. After much searching we found a script which pointed us in the right direction, though we needed to perform […]