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Powershell Tip: Send quick Email when a service goes down [Update: And bring it back up]

10/30/201710/27/2017 by Piyush Khandelwal

Yes we have SCOM monitoring and stuff, but if some testing or debugging is going on and do don’t want to do down the hassle of setting up alerts and just simply want to get notified when a service goes down, here is a simple script

$status = (Get-Service "<ServiceName>").Status

while ($status -eq "Running")
	{
		Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
	}

Send-MailMessage -From "<FromAddress>" -To "<ToAddress>" -Body "<Body>" -Subject "<Subject>" -SmtpServer "<SMTPServer>"

$status = (Get-Service "<ServiceName>").Status

while ($status -eq "Running")

{

Start-Sleep -Seconds 10

}

Send-MailMessage -From "<FromAddress>" -To "<ToAddress>" -Body "<Body>" -Subject "<Subject>" -SmtpServer "<SMTPServer>"

It’s pretty self explanatory. You can also … Read more

AzureAD: Get List of all users with a particular license

08/28/2017 by Piyush Khandelwal

You might have to do reporting and want a list of all users in Azure AD which have a particular license.. Following is an easy way to do so

Connect-MsolService

Get-MsolAccountSku

Get-MSOLUser -All | where {$_.isLicensed -eq "TRUE" -and $_.Licenses.AccountSKUID -eq "TENANTNAME:AAD_PREMIUM"} | select displayname,userprincipalname | export-CSV C:\licensedusers.csv -NoTypeInformation

Connect-MsolService

Get-MsolAccountSku

Get-MSOLUser -All | where {$_.isLicensed -eq "TRUE" -and $_.Licenses.AccountSKUID -eq "TENANTNAME:AAD_PREMIUM"} | select displayname,userprincipalname | export-CSV C:\licensedusers.csv -NoTypeInformation

Get-MsolAccountSku will give you a table of all the License Types you have and count AccountSkuId ActiveUnits WarningUnits ConsumedUnits TENANTNAME:AAD_BASIC 300000 0 1 TENANTNAME:AAD_PREMIUM 300000 … Read more

Fixing MIM Error: The dimage indicates an update or replace operation, but the image doesn’t exist.

08/08/2017 by Piyush Khandelwal

So there was a delete operation sent to an AD MA. It was deleted successfully but on import (Full / Delta) MIM was still seeing the object with a staging error Error: The dimage indicates an update or replace operation, but the image doesn’t exist. Cause: Unknown – The Object Information was corrupted in connector space. … Read more

Quick Tip: Get local time for next AzureAD Sync

05/19/2017 by Piyush Khandelwal

When you run the command

Get-ADSyncScheduler

1	Get-ADSyncScheduler

You get an output similar to AllowedSyncCycleInterval : 00:30:00 CurrentlyEffectiveSyncCycleInterval : 01:00:00 CustomizedSyncCycleInterval : 01:00:00 NextSyncCyclePolicyType : Delta NextSyncCycleStartTimeInUTC : 18/05/2017 10:55:42 PM PurgeRunHistoryInterval : 7.00:00:00 SyncCycleEnabled : True MaintenanceEnabled : True StagingModeEnabled : False SchedulerSuspended : False SyncCycleInProgress : False You will notice that the time is in … Read more