RDP Scaling on high resolution screens
I have been running on a Surface book for the last couple of weeks and is very satisfied with the screen resolution on this machine. that said the operatingsystem is running on 175% zoom 🙂 but when using for example “Remote Desktop Connection Manager” to gain access to my servers i`m realy strugling since the resolution is set to 3000 x 2000. therefor i found this small hack to fix it.
- uncheck this checkbox in compatibilities settings on the shortcut or exe-file
(PS: sorry for the norwegian screenshot:))
Add Azure AD user local Administrator group
Open CMD as administrator and run the command:
net localgroup administrators  AzureAD\UserName /add
Change language – Office 365 Mailbox
To change the Language for a Office 365 mailbox (Exchange Online), run the following commands:
$O365Session = New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $O365Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $O365Session
Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration -Identity “USER” -Language nb-no -LocalizeDefaultFolderName
For full list of cultureinfo classes (Languages) see:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo(VS.71).aspx
Convert from user mailbox to shared mailbox
From time to time i run into a little problem with the Office 365 Admin Center when trying to convert user mailboxes into shared mailboxes.
when this occours i usualy just use Powershell to convert the mailbox into shared mailbox.
To do this you have to connect your Powershell to the Office 365 tenant and run a oneliner for converting the mailbox.
Here is how to connect to Office 365:
Import-Module MSOnline
$O365Cred = Get-Credential “adminuser@YOURTENANT.onmicrosoft.com”
$O365Session = New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $O365Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $O365Session
Connect-MsolService -Credential $O365Cred
When connected then use this single line to convert the mailbox:
Set-Mailbox “Your@mailbox.no” -Type shared
Detect and uninstall hotfixes
There seem to be a broken patch KB3159398 which was released this Tuesday, it breaks GPO processing which can cause a lot of headache!
Source:Â https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e2ebead9-b30d-4789-a151-5c7783dbbe34/patch-tuesday-kb3159398
I’ve made a script which lets you check if this hotfix is installed and also let’s you uninstall it. Replace the KBxxxxxxx with the KB number and run from elevated Powershell to see if it is installed. If you want the script to uninstall the hotfix silently, set $uninstall to $true.
$uninstall = $false # change to $true to uninstall hotfix
$hotfixID = ‘KBxxxxxxx’ #Hotfix KB-number to check, use ‘ quotation marks
Get-HotFix $hotfixID
if ($uninstall -eq $true)
{
Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {wusa.exe /uninstall /KB:($hotfixID -replace ‘KB’,”) /quiet /norestart} #Uninstall quietly and does not prompt for reboot
}
Enable/disable Office 365 serviceplans
I was asked today how you can disable and enable individual features included in an Office 365 license (like Exchange Online, Yammer.. etc) from Powershell
Launch Powershell and log on to your tenant (connect-msolservice)
To see which features which is included in a license use the following code:
$lic = Get-MsolAccountSku | Out-GridView -OutputMode Single -Title “Select SKU to look up”
$lic.ServiceStatus
This will show a list of features and their status
Next, if you want to disable Exchange online for one specific user:
$skuid = Get-MsolAccountSku | Out-GridView -OutputMode Single -Title “Select SKU to edit”
$user = Get-MsolUser | ? {$_.isLicensed -EQ $true} | Out-GridView -title “Select user to modify” -OutputMode Single
$Disable_ExchangeOnine = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId $skuid.AccountSkuId -DisabledPlans “EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE”
$Enable_ExchangeOnline = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId $skuid.AccountSkuId -DisabledPlans $null
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $user.UserPrincipalName -LicenseOptions $Disable_ExchangeOnine
The sku must match the sku assigned to the user you want to change.
Then run this line in the same script to re-enable Exchange Online
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $user.UserPrincipalName -LicenseOptions $Enable_ExchangeOnline
CMD line: add domain to local intranet zone
A quick way to add domains to a computers Local intranet zone is to run the following regs in cmd. No Admin rights needed.
REG ADD “HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\office.com ” /v https /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
REG ADD “HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\microsoftonline.com ” /v https /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
