As part of a series of posts regarding enabling AWS Config for your AWS Organisation, this post looks at how we can Enable the AWS Config Trusted Service for our Organisation. Enabling this service gives us more control over what AWS Config can access by using the Service Linked Role which will be covered in a future post.
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Obtaining AzureAD GUID and Tenant Name
Ocassionaly you may find yourself in the need to obtain the Tenant GUID or Tenant Name for your AzureAD environment, but these details can be tricky to find. You can get this information using PowerShell.
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By default, the first time that a user browses to their OneDrive it’s automatically provisioned for them. In some cases, you might want your users’ OneDrive locations to be ready beforehand, or pre-provisioned.
This helps if you are pre-staging files which are to be migrated from another storage location or are migrating users between Office365 Tenants.
Read moreChanging DHCP DNS server option using PowerShell
If you are running many DHCP scopes for distributed locations with local DNS servers and need to update a large quantity of DNS Server Scope options, you can use the MMC Snapin, but that process uses three windows per scope, but now the DhcpServer PowerShell module is available in the RSAT tools why not script it?
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Configure vSphere host syslog settings using PowerCLI
Setting up Syslog messaging for ESXi/vSphere is a pretty simple task. Set the logging Host and update the firewall to permit the outbound connection on port 514. But if you have multiple hosts and are not licensed for Host Profiles this is a lot of clicking around and duplication of effort. Here I offer my solution using PowerCLI
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Using vscode as your PowerShell IDE
I’ve been a long time user and fan of the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment with the ISE Steroids add-on by MVP Tobias Weltner, but recently I have started using