I am sharing a automation issue that we have recently faced. We run signed PowerShell scripts only, few of our script on migration to GIT and then pulling it to the servers (automated via CICD pipeline) started erroring out as shown in below screenshot. On checking further using below command to verify signature we have…
We have started moving our secrets from local store to Azure KeyVault so these are managed Centrally, and we can do password rotation with ease. First Step is to Create/ import the secrets in AzureKeyvault as shown in below screenshot: Click Generate/Import à Select Manual Name the Secret, Enter the value and ADD tags as…
One of our Team contacted us as they wanted to know the built-in Administrator account for the Domain as it was renamed long ago and many admins have changed over the years, so they are not able to find it. This post will make it simple and provide the code that you can use to…
As Microsoft MSOL Online module is being retired so we need to update our existing scripts, one of the scripts is office 365 License report that uses this module to extract license information and send Email summary of licenses along with full report saved on file share. Prerequisites for this Solution: Active Directory Module Microsoft…
We were in a situation where we want to send the email from one of the automations without using our on-premises relay. I was recently exploring Microsoft Graph SDK because of the future retirement for MSOL and AZUREAD modules. Its not just a module but it is a utilities box for Microsoft cloud eco…
There can be requirement of uploading your own self signed certificate or you organizational approved Certificate to Azure Run As account. This article will assist you in doing that, some admins do it, so they do not have to renew every year First let us create a certificate using New-SelfSignedCertificate powershell command. New-SelfSignedCertificate -Subject ‘CN=AutomationRunAsCert’…
We have upgraded the Exchange Online Management PowerShell Module to newer version (2.0.3). Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -RequiredVersion 2.0.3 After upgrade some of our solutions started giving below errors: Exception calling “GetSteppablePipeline” with “1” argument(s): “Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘TokenProvider’ because it is null.” On researching, We have found that this is only happening in…
We had a requirement to migrate our existing servers that have around hundreds of scheduled tasks. Creating those tasks manually is cumbersome therefore created this solution for current situation and future, for backing up and restoring the tasks to new server. Download and extract the Solution from Github https://github.com/VikasSukhija/Downloads/blob/master/ExportImportTasks.zip First Script is Export Tasks solution,…
We all were waiting for a long time that Graph and Sharepoint API permissions should be limited to selected sites instead of full control. Microsoft has already done the same long back for Exchange online. Many Admins have concern with blanket permissions so it is a big relief that this can be done now with…
I have been writing PowerShell scripts simple to advanced from a long time but still sometimes I get amazed with things that I come across while reviewing the automations and scripts. These are smaill things but can cause big issues if awareness is not there. We always consider Powershell as case insensitive but this scenario…
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