Short little script to get the totalt amount of mailboxdata and number of mailbox items in your Office 365 tenant. Shure, this could easily been done in the Office 365 services. But whats the fun in that? I did it PowerShell to learn a thing or two on the way. I even got to use … Continue reading Get mailbox data size and number of mailbox items for your tennant.

Update, read here: https://alexholmeset.blog/2018/06/09/is-office-365-groups-pre-prepared-for-teams/ If you use the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module you can only get a list of teams your a member of, even if you are a global admin. With this little script you get a list of all Office 365 Groups and whether its Teams enabled or not. It checks if the … Continue reading Check if Office 365 Groups is Teams enabled

Lately there have been some articles on that 10% of the internet I protected by lava lamp encryption. Cloudflare have a wall of lava lamps that theire encryption take photos of to compute a more random password. Even though their encryption algorithms is most likely never going to run out of randomnes, they added a … Continue reading Lava lamp encryption

A couple of years ago I felt that i was stuck professionally.  It didn`t  matter how hard I worked, how I proved myself. I still didn`t get any chance to climb the ladder inside the IT department I was part of. Even though I got a couple more large responsibilities I was still stuck with the … Continue reading My story on how I got into automation and why you should do the same in 2018.

Here is a short office Advent calendar drawing script. It demonstrates some basic concepts in PowerShell scripting: - Creating a arraylist. - Subtracting from a arraylist. - Creating a function. - Simple If/Else statement. - Counting number of objects in a variable. - Get-Random. Im not going to go into dept about the concepts, but … Continue reading PowerShell Advent calendar

As i have started to advance my PowerShell skills, il share what common error i came upon in the beginning. Not knowing some of these can create some confusion and frustration. Please comment below any other tips you have for other beginners. Variable scope. If you write a script that contains a function, and you … Continue reading PowerShell: Beginner pittfalls

In this blogpost we will take a look at how to automate the process of updating the data in the Power BI report we created in part 2, without any need of a computer/server. We will manage to do this by scheduling a Runbook in Azure Automation. I asume that you allready have signed up … Continue reading Integrating PowerShell with PowerBI: Automating in Azure (Part 3)

So now if you read part one, you are set to go starting using this newly created integration. (If not read part one here.) What we will take a look at in this post: - What you can do with the module. - Writing a reporting script that send data to Power BI. - Create … Continue reading Integrating PowerShell with PowerBI: Module, script and reporting (Part 2)

I see on Tech Community there have been some requests regarding the call que timeout in Skype Online. The minimum time you can set is 60 seconds, before the call is passed on to somewhere else. I have seen some requests that people need/want to set the timeout to less than 60 seconds. In the … Continue reading Call que timeout, less than a minute?

Late last night I came over a tweet from John Cook that showed us some mysterious new services you will find when running Get-MsolServicePrincipal in PowerShell on your tenant. There were many services starting with the name Skype Teams. When I checked on my own tenant, a service named Skype Teams Services was missing from the output. … Continue reading Skype Teams? One product to rule them all?