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Office 365: OneDrive for Business – Automatic sign in

Posted by Ivan
/ March 28, 2018 / 4 Comments

Working on Windows 10 migration project and there is a need to enable automatic sign in of OneDrive for Business client when new user profile has been created. Windows 1709 image is golden installation image that will be used for global deployment. In the past months I have been working on different parts and with Windows 10 1709 the OneDrive client is now fully integrated into the profile. The challenge...
Azure: How to recreate VM/create VM based on managed OS disk?

Posted by Ivan
/ November 23, 2017 / Leave a comment

Time has come to make fundamental changes in Azure and at that time you will find out that some things are not available (yet?) in the platform. For me I hit couple of things where I needed to do more research and find my way to get the job done. I have two scenarios where I run into: Perform vNet migration from one virtual network to another Add a VM...
Azure DevTest Lab: run mysql and wordpress docker container

Posted by Ivan
/ November 17, 2017 / Leave a comment

It has been a long while ago I logged on a linux console and played around to install some packages. Currently working on a course for “Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-532)” where I learned what DevTest Labs is and spin off an Ubuntu server image with the Docker package (as artifact option). I like this concept around DevTest principle to create images, configure and make them available to developers, IT...
PowerShell: Set static RPC ports for Active Directory Domain Controller

Posted by Ivan
/ September 9, 2017 / 1 Comment

Putting a domain joined windows system behind a firewall can be challenging. I have successfully managed to put my Web Application Proxy (WAP) servers in a DMZ network where inbound and outbound ACL's have been specified. More details in another post. The challenge I had is to configure the domain controllers to be specific on RPC traffic ports so I only need to allow a subset of tcp/udp ports. The...
PowerShell: How to export and import ssl certificate from commandline?

Posted by Ivan
/ September 4, 2017 / 1 Comment

It has been many years ago I needed to automate and use certutil.exe program to import a certificate. In the past I used SCCM program to run a certain script to import a certificate for me. Recently while working on a project to setup ADFS and WAP servers I needed to export and import so many times a certificate (with private key) that automating this process was key to make...
SCCM: How to uninstall/remove Skype for Business 2016 client?

Posted by Ivan
/ September 4, 2017 / 1 Comment

With Office 365 ProPlus application package that I am preparing to deploy with SCCM server I run into the issue that Skype for Business 2016 was installed. Office 365 ProPlus setup stopped as it wanted me to uninstall the Skype for Business client before it could continue. The new Skype for Business 2016 client was part of the ProPlus package and I needed to do remove the installation. The following...
Powershell: Delete files based on extension?

Posted by Ivan
/ August 8, 2017 / Leave a comment

The following powershell script searches in the specified folder ($folder) and filters for a file extension if parameter ($extension). The script will echo the filename and delete $folder = "C:\Users" $extension = "cmd" if (!($extension)){$filter="*"} Else{$filter=foreach ($item in $extension.split(",")){$item.insert(0,"*.")}} if (test-path $folder) { foreach ($file in get-childitem "$folder\*" -recurse -force -include $filter){ write-host "Deleting file: $($file.fullname)" remove-item -literalPath $file.fullname -force } #end foreach }#end if Make sure to test the...
Windows 10: Using Client Hyper-V

Posted by Ivan
/ February 4, 2017 / Leave a comment

One of the features that Microsoft client OS has introduced with Pro and Enterprise version is the Client Hyper-V. It allows you to run full-blown virtualization host to create operating system images, App-V packages and do testing locally on your client pc. I am in favor of this as I always have my own VMs with me, I can connect USB disks and work without any performance issues with fast...
PowerShell: Automate SSO configuration for SAP GUI

Posted by Ivan
/ August 12, 2016 / Leave a comment

Some years ago I needed to rollout SSO for SAP GUI windows client. At that time I used AD GPO preferences to deploy the required DLL's, INI + services file and the system environment settings. The solution has worked for many years succesfully, now and than IT support forgot to add the computer acocunt to the AD group before the configuration was applied to the systems due to targeting of the...
Office 2016: Outlook cannot provide form scripting support

Posted by Ivan
/ June 29, 2016 / 4 Comments

I run into following problem after upgrading to Office 2016. Enterprise Vault Add-in is no longer working. I had similar issue also with Office 2010. Office has been installed on a Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS server. Solution Find MSI string for Office from RegEdit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall Start elevated command prompt msiexec /i {90160000-0012-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} ADDLOCAL=OutlookVBScript /qb When I open Outlook now, Enterprise Vault client is enabled and working as on typical clients.