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I'd guess you might run into issues with GUID and duplicate users depending on your creation script and how DirSync works. A solution to this would be to have a script that runs once a night, connects to O365 and finds any unlicensed users, checks they are valid in AD and then adds the license to them.

My boss will be happy about that, he's been having issues with the sleep function as it would seem to just randomly decide if it was sleeping or rebooting or shutting down completely. I believe he still wants to get rid of it due to the keyboard though (pgup/pgdn/home/end all on function keys he uses reasonably often).

Sounds interesting, I work reasonably close so I might pop along.

I'd buy it and play it in the office, though I suspect it might get things thrown at me.

Post here or drop me a PM with what problems you were having and I'll see what I can do to help.

Do you have redirected start menus? If so then they need slightly more permissions to the share that it's on.

The $_ indicates that it's using variable earlier in the pipeline, usually as part of a for loop or a where fitler. Given the context (and without looking back over my code) I'd guess it's a where-object section which is filtering out anything called MTATempStore$ or that has a description which matches a list of allowed descriptions, they are probably shares which the user doesn't have access to anyway and so removing their access would either error or make no difference.

Watched "Secret life of Walter Mitty", very enjoyable film.

You can do almost everything in the gui but when you want to do the same thing to 20/50/600 users then I'll take Powershell taking 10 minutes (or even an hour once you add in research and testing) rather than x hours and tons of clicking. The time you put into learning even the basics of Powershell will pay off ten fold or more, everything on the server side is becoming Powershell orientated and most of the gui is just a front for Powershell commands (see the new active directory admin centre which even let's you see the command line that will be run).

This is the best way to do it, leave the "install updates" part of the task sequence there so it picks up any new updates you download and then once every few months redo the "schedule updates" on your WIM to speed things up a bit.

I opened the link, saw more awesome and tempting pictures then closed the page before I got too tempted. I've got other things I should spend my money on (driving lessons and other stuff that goes with being an adult).

You might have to contact support unfortunately. Though I believe @speckled might still have a copy (not sure if he reads for the forum still), might be worth dropping him a PM and asking.

RM has a tool for fixing this. I saw a similar problem previously with the same devices that would randomly generate a new MAC every time the device rebooted, caused some annoying problems.

Important note: best practice is to never use an alias in a script. It might save a few key presses but makes it less readable and assumes that anyone else who reads it will know what it means. Save the alias use for the command line where you are just wanting to get the results quickly.

Must be demoing some apple like tech, since it just works... Almost like magic.

If "Accounts" is a sub OU of "Users" then you want to swap those around in your SearchBase string. Just make sure you don't have any important accounts (domain admins etc) in there to make sure they aren't reset (unless you really want that).

My approach if you've got a csv would be: $users = Import-Csv -path C:\Path\To\file.csv Foreach ($user in $users) { Get-ADUser -Identity $User.Username | Set-ADAccountPassword -NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "Password1" -AsPlaintext -Force) -reset } That will let you set the password to expire or set the passwords to be changed at next login but not actually change the passwords to the same thing.

I was considering going but new plans have come up and I'm visiting a friend I'm Hull instead.

Boss has a surface book and has a few issues with it (American keyboard so might be different with UK keyboard) : *) Keys don't have much tactile feedback to if they were pressed or not. *) function keys need a toggle key pressing (like caps lock) to work. Leading to some confusion where you have to keep checking if it's on or off for the different uses, made worse by page up/down etc being on those keys and him actually using a lot of the Fx keys. I think he had a few other issues with it but nothing too major, just usability issues for his use case.

I've heard a lot of stories about how bad the build quality and battery life are on those. Might have got better with the later ones but I'd recommend a band 2 rather than a band 1, though the cost a bit more.

He wasn't really a sith, more a dark jedi as he had no sith master to train him unless that's going to be the big reveal about Snoke being some hidden sith master who appeared after the emperor died. I rationalised it that it's got a much stronger connection to the light side of the force and has already proven to be some how linked to Rey through the visions she received when touching it. Plus Ren himself points out that she's far stronger than she realises but doesn't have the training to utilise the power correctly all the time.

Personally I'd happily work Christmas day, it's not something I'm particularly bothered about as I'm not religious and don't have children. There are young children in my family but I can easily get presents to them (thanks Amazon) and visiting them is pretty easy if I do want to see them.

But if you are the only one in then just move to another room with heating and work there. Like an IT room and play music/videos through the whiteboard while you work.

I'd rather get the time off during term time than Christmas. Being in work with no one else is the highlight of the job.

Seconding this, it's just a normal bank holiday which is only made special by being the day after Christmas. There isn't these sorts of comments made about easter Monday despite being a similar day.