Building, Breaking, and Automating.
Welcome to maik.ing. This is my digital toolbox for everything related to Microsoft 365, PowerShell automation, and cloud infrastructure. Here, I share functional scribbles, in-depth M365 insights, and the occasional Nordic breeze from my everyday IT life.
Have you ever checked a distribution list in Outlook, only to see a handful of members, even though you know the entire company receives emails sent to that address? Welcome to the illusion of the Outlook Address Book....
How a Standard HDD data disk quietly throttled a database VM in Azure, and a PowerShell script to prove it with before/after numbers. tags: [azure, windows, storage, performance, powershell, diskspd]The Slow Reporting Server That Wasn't a Network Problem...
Welcome back to the terminal garden. Most Azure cost-reporting guides assume an Enterprise Agreement or a Microsoft Customer Agreement: billing accounts, invoice sections, price sheets, the works. If your Azure runs through an indirect CSP partner – a...
Some machines just have to stay logged in. An interface PC that runs a vendor client, a box that hosts a POS bridge, a small on-prem gateway – you know the type. Windows Update reboots it at 3...
Welcome back to the terminal garden. Every M365 admin knows this scenario: It’s a quiet Friday afternoon. Suddenly, your helpdesk lights up. A critical HR synchronization script has stopped working, your automated backup pipeline is throwing unauthorized errors,...
Welcome back to the terminal garden. Sometimes, amidst the complex cloud infrastructure, you just need a straightforward, targeted offsite backup of a specific user's Microsoft 365 OneDrive. No heavy third-party enterprise tools, just plain PowerShell and a bit...
Building, Breaking, and Automating. Sometimes the problem is not that a document does not exist. The problem is that nobody knows where it is. A recent request was a good example: years of historical contracts and documents were...
Welcome back to the Terminal Garden! Today, we're taking a look at a true classic from my daily IT life—a typical case of Building, Breaking, and Automating. The scenario is simple: A new notebook is unboxed, you are...
Source: Microsoft Learn – Admin information for Microsoft Forms 📋 OverviewWhen an employee leaves your organization, their Microsoft Forms don't automatically transfer to someone else. This article explains how administrators can take ownership of those forms using a...
When a batch of new team members needs access to multiple Microsoft 365 or Distribution Groups, the admin portal becomes the wrong tool immediately. Here is how to automate it cleanly — with type detection, error handling, and...
Tags: hyper-v windows-server troubleshooting trustedinstaller windows-update It started like a completely normal evening. A Windows Server 2016 VM sitting on Hyper-V, spinning away at the "Getting Windows Ready" screen – for almost two hours. What followed was a...
Getting a complete, flat list of end-users from a massive, nested distribution list in Exchange Online can be surprisingly frustrating. If you try to use the standard Get-DistributionGroupMember cmdlet, you will quickly notice two things: 1. It lacks...
Have you recently converted a Shared Mailbox to a Regular User Mailbox, assigned a license, and yet OWA keeps crashing on login? “Error: AccountTerminationException | st: 440 Symptom: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected end of data” Even though the Microsoft...
When managing a growing team, you often find yourself in a situation where a lead user (e.g., a department head or administrator) needs access to multiple shared or functional mailboxes. Manually clicking through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center...
