Teams’ default behavior is to launch automatically upon user login. This can be undesirable for a myriad of reasons, and can be managed with Group Policy with a couple of caveats. The first is that this policy is a User configuration policy, and not a Computer configuration policy. The second is that the policy must…
Month: December 2023
PowerShell – ConfigMan – Convert OUs to Collections
With ConfigMan application deployments, it’s good practice to, when applicable, divide large groups up and take a staged approach at deployment. I’ve found myself multiple times creating multiple collections containing the objects within an Active Directory (AD) Organizational Unit (OU) for staged deployments. I decided to build a script to ease this process. This script…
PowerShell – Active Directory – Convert AD Name Formats
Many of the ActiveDirectory PowerShell module cmdlets expect the distinguished name format. I find this somewhat inconvenient, as this format does not read as nicely as the canonical name format that so many of us have become familiar with. Additionally, an objects’ canonical name is somewhat more readily available via the Active Directory Users and…