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PowerTip: Remove calendar events from a mailbox

August 31, 2017 Aug 31, 2017 08/31/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Remove calendar events within an Exchange Online mailbox. (image)     Is there an easy way to remove calendar events from within an Exchange Online mailbox?      (image)   Yes there is. There is a newly deployed cmdlet to Office 365 tenants: Remove-CalendarEvents. This cmdlet is currently only available in Exchange Online, but...

Weekend Scripter: Exchange add-in module

August 11, 2017 Aug 11, 2017 08/11/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Mike O'Neill, Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer, created an Exchange add-in module. This is a PowerShell module for Exchange engineers. The module takes into account both on-premises and hybrid deployed Exchange environments. It is a combination of several other scripts that are either on the internet, or are action items you ...

Debugging PowerShell script in Visual Studio Code – Part 2

February 13, 2017 Feb 13, 2017 02/13/17
Doctor Scripto
Welcome to Part 2 of the series about how to debug PowerShell in Visual Studio Code. In Part 1, we looked at the debugging features of Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension installed.  Now we will examine the various ways that you can start to debug PowerShell script with Visual Studio Code. Single file debugging With the 1.9 ...

PowerTip: Get a list of security patches installed in the last 90 days

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to get a list of all the security patches installed in the last three months. (image) How can I list all the security patches that I’ve installed in the last 90 days? (image) There’s a class for that! Just use , and you can retrieve this information. Here is an ...

PSScriptAnalyzer deep dive – Part 4 of 4

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows how to write a custom PSScriptAnalyzer rule. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a Cloud and Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner), or posting on my blog, workingsysadmin.com. This week, ...