IT Admin Tips: Utilizing ActiveSync Quarantine on Microsoft Exchange (Part I)

With the widespread usage of devices such as iPhones and Androids in the business world, it pretty much goes without saying that E-Mail access is literally at everyone's fingertips. For an IT Professional, this can turn into a nightmare to manage as everyone with an E-Mail address will want E-Mail onto their mobile device, whether it be a company-provided device or a personal one. By default, Microsoft Exchange makes it trivial for a user with an...

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IT Admin Tips: Recursively Search Directory for Filenames with Specific Text String

In the past, I had found myself needing to do an audit on some network shares for any files that might contain passwords. Instead of doing manual searches on these shares, I decided that it might be more beneficial to create a PowerShell script that would provide a more automated approach. What I needed was a script that could be easily ran against various network share locations, searching for a particular string (e.g. "password"). Any file that...

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IT Admin Tips: Automatically Create a New User's Personal Folder

In the previous post, IT Admin Tips: Create Personal Folders for All Active Directory Users With PowerShell, we went through the steps to create a PowerShell script that would go through your list of Domain Accounts and create a Personal Folder for each active account. This is very useful when you are first implementing Personal Folders, but what about creating Personal Folders for newly created Domain Accounts? Wouldn't it be helpful to have something in-place that automatically creates a properly configured Personal Folder for newly created Domain...

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