Sign User Out of O365
In situations involving compromised user accounts simply disabling an account is often not sufficient to mitigate the threat especially if the account is actively being using to send SPAM/Phishing email or to download data.
Exporting & Migrating GPOs with PowerShell
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In more than one project, I have run across the desire to export GPOs that I have created and re-import them. While this can be easily accomplished by customers who have access to AGPM by following MSFT's Guide, this is not always the case. The following is an alternative way that will work with any environment as it is PowerShell based.
Certificate Thumbprints via PowerShell
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While troubleshooting authentication and identity federation for things such as ADFS and similar technologies, it is often necessary to see the thumbprints of the certificates that are installed on a Server or client machine.
O365 Recursive Folder and Sub Folder Permissions
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If you have a public folder that you want to apply permissions in Office 365, you might have noticed that the web console can be slow if you have a long list of folders and sometimes the web console will time out and result in inconsistent permissions applied to sub folders.
A much better method is to apply permissions to it using the Exchange Management Shell, its pretty easy and works with 365 and hosted Exchange.
Moving Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop Policies Quickly
In large environments, oftentimes there can be lots of Citrix Policies involved. The XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 7.x Studio and AppCenter consoles currently do not have an easy mechanism to move policies around quickly. This, however, can be easily accomplished by the use of PowerShell.
XenDesktop Changes made outside of console
Issue with CVAD 7.x where using Studio and PowerShell interchangeably can result in the error message "Changes made outside of this console, such as in PowerShell or management tools from previous versions, resulted in a discrepancy between policies. The assigned objects for policy "PolicyName" must match..."
Determine CVAD Device OS
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For certain things like pushing policies to certain types of devices or applying monitoring policies, or even troubleshooting, it can be useful to know the end-point Operating System that a user is on from CVAD.
Windows 8, 8.1, Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2 Optimization Guide
commonly applied optimizations for Citrix environments and provide assistance with their implementation through a script
Citrix on OSX 10.10 Yosemite
A feature introduced in Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) which remains in OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) performs validation of ARP requests, which results in unicast ARP requests. These requests will time-out if the gateway on the host does not receive a timely response
VBScripts and UAC
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User Account Control (UAC) can sometimes be a pain in the neck which is why I have looked for ways around scripting in customer environments that have UAC enabled. This article contains solutions for this issue.