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The script: import-module RemoteDesktop Get-RDUserSession -ConnectionBroker connectionbroker.domain.local | select username, hostserver, unifiedsessionid | Out-GridView -title "Select users to message" -passthru | Send-RDUserMessage -MessageTitle "Message from Tech Support" -MessageBody "Server will be rebooting shortly please save your work." The result: After selecting "ok" this appears on the RDSH server. Why does it work? Well send-rdusermessage really …

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Problem: I wanted to log off multiple users from an RDSH collection. First I tried the local task manager from the server, that only allowed one selection in server 2012 r2. Then I tried the remote desktop collection in server manager, that only allowed me to log off one user as well. I wanted lower …

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$domain = get-addomain | select -expand distinguishedname $facilities = "facilityname" $OUS = "Groups","Kiosks","Laptops","Users","Workstations" foreach ($facility in $facilities) { New-ADOrganizationalUnit "$facility" foreach ($OU in $OUS) { NEW-ADOrganizationalUnit “$OU” –path “OU=$facility,$domain” } } A very simple script I made to quickly create some OUs with sub-OUs inside. Basically all I need to add is facility names and …

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I'm playing with a new storage backend so I wanted to create a whole bunch of VMs, then edit them, then stop them, then start them. Here's how I did it. Here's the end result. Now here's how I did it. $value = 1..10 $vmstore = "C:\VMDATA\VM POOL\" $vmparent = "C:\VMDATA\VM POOL\Server 2012R2 Parent.vhdx" foreach ($number …

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