dougsbaker

Powershell admin tool launcher

by dougsbaker
I Often find my self needing to open tools such as AD or DNS as a different user account. This is because as a security best practices I usually recommend organizations run dual account security. Where an IT team member uses a separate account for admin activity vs their day to day account that has ... Read More

Deploying Password Policy’s

by dougsbaker
When its time to setup an AD password policy for your company you are going to google the process and you are going to find 1 Million ways to enforce passwords. Unfortunately most of the ways that are listed there are really geared toward older options Pre 2008 Active Directory. Most involve trying to use ... Read More

Office 365 Updating email distro with contacts

by dougsbaker
Ever run into a user request where they need you to update a distribution list with users that are not on your system? No Problem you say, only to discover its a excel spread sheet with 100 or more people. AGH…. PowerShell to the rescue. Here is a script I used to create and add ... Read More

Welcome to my new Blog

by dougsbaker
Thanks everyone so much for showing up and checking out my new blog. Content on here is mostly going to be about my journey though Technology and the various pieces of tech I am working on and fixing. Most likely I wont post a ton on here and it will be mostly what is cool ... Read More