Add-On
Randomized Meal Planner
A few years ago I was home with my son several days a week, and I was in charge of most of our family’s meals. I had developed a library of recipes that I turned to again and again–nothing fancy, Read more…
Active Directory
Some Miscellaneous Powershell Scripts/snippets
I’ve just posted a few additional scripts that I’ve used over the years up on GitHub. There are a few scripts that I use mostly in auditing AD. I’ve also added some snippets that I’ve used to add AD photos Read more…
Networks
"The network is slow!" Or, how to stop worrying and love the troubleshooting.
What are the possible causes of slow workstation performance? We have all run into it before–the dreaded, vague complaint that “the network is slow.” We all know that sometimes it is real, and sometimes it isn’t. It is so hard Read more…
Active Directory
User account creation script
I created a relatively complex Powershell script to manage creating new user accounts in our environment. It handles the following: Highly configurable with a separate config file to customize to your site Creating the user in AD from a .csv file Read more…
Office 365
Sharepoint 2013 shared task list: The form template failed to load: The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator.
When using a Sharepoint 2013 shared task list with the default resource throttling limits, after adding your 5001’th item, you may run into the following error when opening an item on the task list: The form template failed to load. Read more…
Active Directory
Office 365: fix the UserPrincipalName if you synced AD prior to adding the new UPN suffix
Probably like many people, I started testing out Office 365 in phases. One change that we had to make was to add a UPN alias for @domain.org to replace our @domain.local. I was a little leery of this, so I Read more…
Office 365
Bulk Import photos into Active Directory for Sharepoint, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Lync
A simple Powershell script to import photos from a directory into AD. The photos should be named with the format “samAccountName.jpg”, less than 10k in size, and recommended dimensions of 96×96. To get the photos into the proper format, I Read more…
Office 365
Workflow Manager 1.0 problems on Server 2012 R2
Recently I tried setting up Workflow Manager 1.0 on a new Server 2012 R2 server. The problems were inconsistent and unspecific in the error message–I tried several URIs that all matched the server, but when using http:// I would get Read more…
Configuration Manager
Install Truecrypt Silently via .MSI
I was recently asked to deploy Truecrypt 7.1a to 250 computers. We use System Center Configuration Manager, so the simplest way to do this was going to be an .msi. Unfortunately, there is no official MSI for Truecrypt. I found Read more…
Active Directory
Retrieve an Active Directory Attribute to set the Default Save Location in Microsoft Office 2010
Every year when we image new computers, I try to work a little harder at making the image as automated as possible. We have a lot of short-term volunteers and students who turn over frequently. Training is also spotty, so Read more…