Create Active Directory Phonebook with Pode.Web

By ivan

Recently, I have found Pode and Pode.Web and I were so excited and wanted to create something with it. Then my boss decided that he wanted a new phone book to replace the current SharePoint list, and I saw an opportunity to use Pode.Web. For this example, I assume that Pode.Web is already downloaded and…

Breakfast in Sarajevo – A foreigner’s view part one

By ivan

In this article, I want to share my experience with Sarajevo breakfasts. As an avid gourmand, my wife and I love to go to breakfast on the weekend.In the end, we visited most of the places in the city, and our view is valuable, especially for the foreigners visiting the city. Many places and areas…

SCCM/MECM How to set computer name automatically during Task Sequence

By ivan

I know it is possible to set the computer name before you start the task sequence by adding the OSDComputerName variable to a collection – usually used in the Unknown Computers collection. I know as well how to generate it based on the serial number of the workstation or laptop. Well, this was not enough…

Simple PowerShell Account Creation script

By ivan

Recently I was inspired by the excellent Master User Creator, which we cannot use, and I had some free time, so I decided to create something simple, but still useful for my service desk guys. I ended with following script – combination of PowerShell , Mahapps and XAML. Script requires PowerShell 7, installed RSAT tools…

Lazy Exchange On-Premises Mailbox Creator

By ivan

One of the ways to use shared mailbox with exchange is to grant “Full Access” and “Send As” access through security group. With the latest exchange security group must be universal and mail enabled. Recently I had to create bunch of mailboxes and found the process… repeating and boring, then I decided that there must…

Get size of all items in current path

By ivan

I was looking for an easy way to get the size of all user profiles folder through PowerShell and found this woshub and inspired by it ended with the following function which measures the size of everything in current path if used without parameter. Made it a function just to be able to autoload it.…

SCCM Reports Service Account

By ivan

If you have to change the Report Server service account password (never happens, right?!?) do yourself a favor and before rebuilding the entire report service go to Administration –> Security –> Accounts, double click on the account in question, click SET and enter the new password. Symptoms are: 1. Cannot impersonate user for data source2.…

Dell Workstations (3630) UEFI Bios settings – no bootable device found

By ivan

Recently I had to install windows through SCCM and Remote Distribution point with enabled PXE support in remote site which doesn’t have an IT technician available and this turned to a challenge for a regular user. I’m using MDT Task sequence and we support secure boot. In order to make it work few settings in…