PowerShell print server inventory script by Michel Stevelmans

Scripts looks very interesting. I haven't tried it but will do that in awhile :)
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PowerShell script which lists all installed printers and gathers information like the printer name, driver, share name, location and the IP address (the actual IP address, not the portname without the “IP” prefix).

# Print server inventory script
# Created by Michel Stevelmans - http://www.michelstevelmans.com

# Set print server name
$Printserver = "PRINTSERVER"

# Create new Excel workbook
$Excel = new-Object -comobject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $True
$Excel = $Excel.Workbooks.Add()
$Sheet = $Excel.Worksheets.Item(1)
$Sheet.Cells.Item(1,1) = "Printer Name"
$Sheet.Cells.Item(1,2) = "Location"
$Sheet.Cells.Item(1,3) = "Comment"
$Sheet.Cells.Item(1,4) = "IP Address"
$Sheet.Cells.Item(1,5) = "Driver Name"
$Sheet.Cells.Item(1,6) = "Shared"
$Sheet.Cells.Item(1,7) = "Share Name"
$intRow = 2
$WorkBook = $Sheet.UsedRange
$WorkBook.Font.Bold = $True

# Get printer information
$Printers = Get-WMIObject Win32_Printer -computername $Printserver
foreach ($Printer in $Printers)
{
    $Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 1) = $Printer.Name
    $Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 2) = $Printer.Location
    $Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 3) = $Printer.Comment
    $Ports = Get-WmiObject Win32_TcpIpPrinterPort -computername $Printserver
        foreach ($Port in $Ports)
        {
            if ($Port.Name -eq $Printer.PortName)
            {
            $Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 4) = $Port.HostAddress
            }
        }
    $Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 5) = $Printer.DriverName
    $Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 6) = $Printer.Shared
    $Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow, 7) = $Printer.ShareName
    $intRow = $intRow + 1
}

$WorkBook.EntireColumn.AutoFit()
$intRow = $intRow + 1
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,1).Font.Bold = $True
$Sheet.Cells.Item($intRow,1) = "Print server inventory - Created by Michel Stevelmans - http://www.michelstevelmans.com"

Source : http://www.michelstevelmans.com/powershell-print-server-inventory-script/

PsTools with Powershell - Remote Execution

So I was tasked to remote execute an exe file on a server.

I wanted to use PowerShell to do the whole thing but ended up using PsTools due to lack of time to explore PowerShell Remote.

I ran into few issue. Basically when I was executing the exe file it wasn't displaying anything to the end user. After doing some research I found that exe was running but on the wrong session. For example I wanted to see the Test.exe GUI logged in as a remote user. But when I executed the psexec it ran the Test.exe in console session id 0. My session id was 2. You can see you session by going to taskmanager and go to users tab. There you will see the session id.

In order for me to see Test.exe GUI I had to specify the session on psexec. But problem was that every time I log into remote desktop I would get a new session id.

So I googled it and found the solution for identifying the session id.

So basically psexec runs a command query session and looks for session id of the user where the app should be displayed. i.e the variable $UserSession

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#Make sure you change the location of PsTools exe files below
#Change following variables for your setup
set-alias psexec 'C:\PsTools\PsExec.exe' 
$UsersSession = 'ijaved' #Username of the user you want the app to show
$UserAdmin = 'admin' #admin user on the remote pc
$AdminPass = 'test' #pass of admin user
$RemotePc = '\\192.168.1.128' #remote pc
$App ='C:\test.exe' # App to run

#No need to change anything below
$results = & psexec '$RemotePC' -u '$UserAdmin' -p '$AdminPass' query session
$id = $results | Select-String "$UsersSession\s+(\w+)" | Foreach {$_.Matches[0].Groups[1].Value}
$delay = ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2
$call =  & psexec '$RemotePC' -u '$UserAdmin' -p '$AdminPass' -i $id -d '$App'
#End Script
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I found a problem where one of the installer.exe won't run even after being called. It would come up and disappear. After trying to figure out something I got my break. I found that when psexec is executing the installer it is doing so from c:\windows\system32 folder and the installer for some stupid reason was looking for its file inside system32. Don't know why but that was the case.

So I made a batch file which called the installer from its own folder. Basically batch file did the following :-

cd \
cd "c:\installerfolder\"
c:\installerfolder\install.exe

Hope it helps anyone out there.

Disable & Enable Services for Mailbox

PowerShell commands to Disable mailbox level services for specificed users. Works well for Microsoft 365 Cloud.

Disable Access to Mailbox

#Set $member to username of the user you wan
$member | Set-CASMailbox -OWAEnabled $false -PopEnabled $false -ImapEnabled $false -MAPIEnabled $false -ActiveSyncEnabled $false -EwsEnabled $false
   
Get-CASMailbox $member | Select-Object Name, OWAEnabled, PopEnabled, ImapEnabled, MAPIEnabled, ActiveSyncEnabled, EwsEnabled

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Enable Access to Mailbox

#Set $member to username of the user you wan
$member | Set-CASMailbox -OWAEnabled $true -PopEnabled $true -ImapEnabled $true -MAPIEnabled $true -ActiveSyncEnabled $true -EwsEnabled $true

Get-CASMailbox $member | Select-Object Name, OWAEnabled, PopEnabled, ImapEnabled, MAPIEnabled, ActiveSyncEnabled, EwsEnabled

Enable / Disable Microsoft 365 ActiveSync service for users.

I am currently working on Microsoft 365 cloud exchange. I want to try out different things which will enable and disable the services for users. I found the below post which stats how to enable and disable ActiveSync for users.

Windows Mobiles can be configured for Active Sync. Active Sync is enabled for all users by Default in Exchange 2007 & 2010.

For Security reasons its recommended to disabled all users and enable only for the required users

Below power shell enabled and disabled Active for all the users in the exchange Organization

get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited | set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled:$False

get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited | set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled:$True

Below powershell command to enable and disable active sync for given set of users in the text file

Get-content C:\users.txt | set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled:$True

Get-content C:\users.txt| set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled:$False

Source : http://powershell.com/cs/forums/p/2619/3506.aspx

PsTools - Executing Program on a remote windows 7 machine.

I could execute the program but it was running in the background. After troubleshooting figured out that you need to put the sessionid to make sure it displays for the user.

psexec -s -d -i 2 \\win7vm -u "ijaved" -p "***"  "calc.exe"

The number 2 above identified my session which was RDP. You can find the sessionid via taskmanager.