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Yet more reason to have solid backups and test them regularly. Who cares if the files are named strangely if you just restore whole folders/shares.

Sounds like perfect Lego age, at least for the sons.

I've got most of the presents sorted for nieces and nephews (well family member bought them for me as they were cheap), just one more to sort and presents for parents at some point. Will probably get something from Amazon for them and just get it all delivered to parents as that's where I'm spending Christmas.

EMC have done some as well, they aren't as bad as the OSPF one but not on the same level as SUSE. HardwareForWhat is probably the best of the ones I've watched, even with the small wincing from the cable cutting and drive dropping.

IT Parody videos done right: IT Parody videos done wrong:

Use "$($User.Username)" $User.Credit "$($User.Comment)" and that should work.

When you Write-Host them I'd imagine they come out in a different order each time it's ran? You'll need to use an Ordered hashtable to fix that or not bother with the hashtable at all and just specify them in the command line, possibly in a format like this: & "c:\Program Files\PaperCut MF\server\bin\win\server-command.exe adjust-user-account-balance" "$($User.Username) $($User.Credit) $($User.Comment)" I'd probably use this method as I recall spaltting a hashtable into command tags on the full hashtable including parameter names so that might be screwing it up.

You should just be able to put a & before the command line you want to run and it should work.

I'd guess that it can take a little while to update the Get-MsolAccountSku data, it's worth checking an individual user you've updated to ensure they've got the license Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName | Select Userprincipalname,Licenses should do the job, though you might want -expandproperty before licenses to make it it gets them all.

The script should work fine, might want to change the MaxResults to a higher number but that's just to save time from running the script multiple times. The only thing to beware of is that Get-MSolAccountSku might not return the results in the same order each time, you'd be better off using a Where-Object on the end to identify the right ones.

I'm actually curious what the rest of the article says. Also these people would have a fit if they saw my screen most days with 2+ Powershell prompts and the occasional SSH window.

I believe you need to make the groups again but you can easily do that with Powershell, especially since you could loop through existing groups and create the group and add members as you go.

I think Spiceworks actually do a standalone network scanner now, might just be in beta though.

What switching gear do you have in? Cisco do (or did) a GUI for configuring their switches but also includes a network discovery element. Only for their gear but it's a good start.

Powershell in a month of lunches book is very good too if you want something to read that goes through the basics in a pretty easy yo understand way.

I won't be on at all this week as I'm away to Berlin.

Ideally this would be two scripts, one for the license side and one for the AD extensionattribute side. I've got one for the first part and the second should be possible with Set-ADUser. I'll dig out my script and post it up for you. Edit: Just re-read your post and you've already got the attributes set. So here is the script that I use to add licenses to users, usually as part of the new year process. You can call it from the command line with something like this: .\Add-License.ps1 -Users (Get-ADUser -filter {ExtensionAttribute1 -like "Students"}) That should assign the students the correct licenses, you can double check the full names of your licenses by connecting to O365 from a prompt and running Get-MsolAccountSKU. You can achieve the same thing for staff by modifying the licenses it applies and changing the filter in Get-ADUser to the relevant attributes.

Could be combined in with NT but I'm sure no one here would browse the internet from one of their servers, even to a site as trusted as Edugeek.

Strange that there seems to be more users of NT than Vista, purely from an age of OS perspective rather than quality of OS.

@Garacesh and @LiamHaith up for the usual Friday night roam?

I finished Cal Battleship 5 recently and have a few days left on Marauder 4. Might buy myself a golem at some point.

BECAUSE ALL THE COOL KIDS DO IT! (I ALSO TYPED ALL THIS WITH SHIFT RATHER THAN CAPS LOCK, CAN'T BREAK THE HABIT)

I'd forgotten about that book, I'm sure I've got a copy somewhere at home. I'll dig it out and try some of it as a student and see what I can break.

Just to whichever drives they'd normally have access to. I'd imagine there is some stuff they could do that we haven't planned for but I'll deal with that when it happens.

We've got it installed on a few computer suites, everything is locked down with GPO as normal and students can't do any more than they could through a GUI. We've had no problems with it so far.