Friday, September 25, 2015

Outlook 2013 Message Header Analyzer

Damn near the best Outlook add-on I think I've ever used, period. You can get it here:

https://store.office.com/message-header-analyzer-WA104005406.aspx?assetid=WA104005406


What it does is allow you to inspect message headers right from the Preview pane, or if you don;t use that from the email itself without having to pull up the Properties and then copy/paste from that tiny little window into Notepad or something in order to read it all.
The bonus though about this add-on is that it breaks the headers down just like Microsoft's Header Analyzer from: https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/MHA/Pages/mha.aspx

Here's what it looks like from within Outlook



Tuesday, September 1, 2015

PowerShell Script - Generate list of domain users and their Logon Script values

Yesterday I had cause to make some logon script changes.. Now we still use Batch files but in combination with PowerShell scripts and Group Policy Objects.  However a few years ago I made some test changes and discovered that I had not pushed those out to all users. *DOH*
The push currently to get everyone on the same page is DFS.  Distributed File System for those who don't know... We're preparing to make changes to some file servers and if all users are using DFS paths it'll be very easy.
Anyway below is the script I used to generate the text file with the data.

Get-AdUser -Filter * -Properties ScriptPath | ft Name, Scriptpath > C:\PathToFile\File.txt


Which resulted in A LOT of accounts that I don;t need to sift through.. ex-consultants, service accounts and the like. So I narrowed my field of search down a bit...


Get-AdUser -Searchbase "OU=blahblah,OU=blahblah,DC=Domain,DC=com" -filter * -properties ScriptPath | sort-object ScripPath | ft Name, ScriptPath > C:\PathToFile\File.txt




There you go, enjoy.