Powershell | Secure Script Passwords
I’ve recently been configuring some more PowerShell scripts to help automate some our tasks within our domain. One thing that always seems to crop up is securing passwords that are required within the script. Like most companies we use a…
Powershell | Manually backup Bitlocker recovery key to AD
Although backing up the Bitlocker recovery key should be automatic to ensure all keys are accounted for, i have had moment where i needed to back up the key manually. Although it’s a task you shouldn’t need to do very…
AD | Delegate Access to view Bitlocker Recovery Keys
With Enterprises being extra cautious around security, encryption has now become a must on, at least, end user devices. One main product that’s free with Windows, as long as you have the Enterprise or Education edition of Windows 10, is…
Group Policy | Deploy Chrome Extensions
With Google Chrome becoming more popular with people in business, there may come a time when you want to deploy a Google Chrome extension to a large amount of users without them individually going to the Chrome Webstore. To do…
Windows 10 | Disable ‘Nearby Sharing’
Trying to disable all the options and settings within Windows 10 can be a little tedious sometimes as settings and methods to configure these settings can be split across different areas and different management platforms. One of the issues i…
SCCM | Powershell Detect in User Context
When deploying applications to users there always comes a time when you need to detect an application is installed whilst in the user context. It becomes abit of an issue when checking files and folders exist in the users profile…
Group Policy | Set Outlook Default Font
There’s always a time when you need to set a default font within Outlook. Microsoft have made it really easy to set fonts for the rest of the office products but have seem to have missed Outlook from the list….
Group Policy | Disable Archive button in Office 2016/365 client
If your company has decided to take the stance that no archiving is to be allowed, it can be quite a long process to disable all access to the archiving within Outlook 2016. There are a couple of builtin settings…
Powershell | Configure Focused Inbox O365
One of the most annoying features Microsoft has enabled was the Focused Inbox within O365. Although you can configure transport rules to send mail directly into the focused folder it does open a possibility for missing, potentially, important emails. Managing…
Powershell | Connecting to Skype Online with MFA
We’ve recently migrated to Office 365 and have started to use Skype online as our new IM software. As with everything Microsoft, there allowing less and less configuration option through Group Policy and moving towards Intune and application specific policies…