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Intune Powershell Scripts – Encoding Gotcha

by James McDonald | Jun 25, 2021 | IT Tips

Just had a powershell script that was failing When I went in to the registry key that stores the results of the script running I saw some corrupted characters The problem turned out to be I had a file that was encoded in UTF-16LE So I saved the powershell script as...

Send-MailMessage not able to send an email through Office 365 using App Password

by James McDonald | Jun 24, 2021 | IT Tips

Send-MailMessage & App Password Doesn't Work So today I tried to test SMTP Auth using Powershell $appPassword = 'my_app_password_here' $From = "[email protected]" $To = "[email protected]" [securestring]$secStringPassword =...

Remove the Mail App – Intune PowerShell Script

by James McDonald | May 18, 2021 | IT Tips

Create this script and run it in user context I called my script RemoveMailApp.ps1 # Important: set to run this in user context Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps | Remove-AppxPackage

Why S3-WriteObject Kept the Upload Going When I Control-C’d it

by James McDonald | Jun 6, 2017 | Cloud, IT Tips, Microsoft Tech Tips

I would recommend just using the AWS Cli for windows instead of powershell Uploading 650MB chunks using S3-WriteObject. Didn't want to choke link during day so CTRL-C'd to exit the powershell script and found in the morning that the upload had happened any way. The...