A work-in-progress portfolio highlighting my technical skills, projects, and passions—more coming soon. It is hosted on GitHub pages using my own custom domain name.
I'm not a programmer or webdev by any means, just a humble SysAdmin. I wrote some of the HTML for this site by hand but a lot of the formatting and structure was made possible with the help of ChatGPT.
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(last update 8/6/2025)
This project dubbed "SolNexus" involved many collaborators to design, engineer, and build a practical and cost effective solution for enabling high speed internet access at remote solar field job sites in extreme weather conditions using a Starlink satellite, Mikrotik router+PoE Switch, and Unifi U7 Outdoor WAPs.
Will add some photos and details soon!
This project converts a standard tool vault into a mobile remote workstation. Provided with 5G antenna and router, laptop docking station, and large format screen to enable foremen in urban remote sites to access their resources at the job site where cellular service may be weak.
Will add some photos and details soon!
To connect to Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online powershell interface we must first run Powershell as administrator and install and import the modules.
Install-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement
Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement
Connect-ExchangeOnlineAdd-MailboxPermission -Identity "username of person you want to get permissions from" -User "username of person you want to give permissions to" -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All -AutoMapping $falseExample: I want to give Nick full access to Devin's exchange mailbox.
Add-MailboxPermission -Identity devintownsend -User nick -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All -AutoMapping $falseAdd-MailboxPermission -Identity "username of person you want to get permissions from" -User "username of person you want to give permissions to" -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All -AutoMapping $trueExample: I want to give Nick full access to Maynard's exchange mailbox, and have it appear in the Outlook mailbox listing automatically (In Outlook "Classic" at least!)
Add-MailboxPermission -Identity mjkeenan -User nick -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All -AutoMapping $trueAdd-MailboxFolderPermission "username of person you want to get permissions from":\calendar -User "username of perosn you want to give permissions to" -AccessRights Editor -SharingPermissionFlags NoneExample: I want to give Nick full editor permissions to Mikael's calendar
Add-MailboxFolderPermission makerfeldt:\calendar -User nick -AccessRights Editor -SharingPermissionFlags NoneGet-MailboxFolderStatistics "username" | Select Name,FolderSize,ItemsinFolderExample: I want to see what folders are taking up space in Bruce's Mailbox
Get-MailboxFolderStatistics bdickenson | Select Name,FolderSize,ItemsinFolderGet-MailboxFolderStatistics "username" -FolderScope Inbox | Select Name,FolderandSubFolderSize,ItemsinFolderandSubfoldersExample: I want to see a more detailed view of the folders and sizes for James' mailbox
Get-MailboxFolderStatistics jlabrie -FolderScope Inbox | Select Name,FolderandSubFolderSize,ItemsinFolderandSubfoldersGet-MailboxFolderStatistics "username" -FolderScope RecoverableItems | FL Name,FolderAndSubfolderSize,ItemsInFolderAndSubfoldersExample: Geddy emptied his deleted items but doesn't remember when, we want to see how much is recoverable.
Get-MailboxFolderStatistics glee -FolderScope RecoverableItems | FL Name,FolderAndSubfolderSize,ItemsInFolderAndSubfoldersSearch-Mailbox -Identity "username" -SearchDumpsterOnly -TargetMailbox "Discovery Search Mailbox" -TargetFolder "username-RecoverableItems" -DeleteContentExample: Perhaps useful for an on-premise exchange scenario, where we're getting ready to migrate Dave's mailbox to 365. They've emptied deleted items already but we want to purge the deleted items to speed up the transfer, or the mailbox is over the 50GB limit.
Search-Mailbox -Identity dmustaine -SearchDumpsterOnly -TargetMailbox "Discovery Search Mailbox" -TargetFolder "dmustaine-RecoverableItems" -DeleteContentSet-CalendarProcessing -Identity "Calendar/Resource Name" -AllowConflicts $true/$falseExample: For some reason you want to allow multiple people to book the main conference room at the same time. Or for some reason, someone has done this and you want to undo it.
Set-CalendarProcessing -Identity "Main Conference Room" -AllowConflicts $trueSet-CalendarProcessing -Identity "Main Conference Room" -AllowConflicts $falsewmic logicaldisk get namesfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windowsdism /image:X:\ /cleanup-image /restorehealthdism.exe /image:C:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactionsreg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power /v PlatformAoAcOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 0powercfg -h offGet-ADUser -Filter * -Properties PasswordLastSet | Sort-Object -Property PasswordLastSet | Select-Object Name, PasswordLastSetGet-ADUser -identity "username" -properties passwordlastset, passwordneverexpires | sort name | ft Name, passwordlastset, PasswordneverexpireExample: I want to find out when Ozzy last changed his password.
Get-ADUser -identity oosbourne -properties passwordlastset, passwordneverexpires | sort name | ft Name, passwordlastset, PasswordneverexpireMitel (formerly Shortel) on-premise isn't a very common or modern PBX these days, but years ago when I needed to migrate the server portion from Windows Server 2008 up to Server 2019 and upgrade the app from Shortel to Mitel, we had all kinds of issues. The following commands helped get things back up and running smoothly.
First, open a command prompt as an admin and CD to the following directory
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Shoreline Communications\ShoreWare Server"quickinstall -stopallquickinstall -mediaout
quickinstall -mediainThen, open Registry Editor to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ShoreTel-Media
Update the image path from the current entry to the following
\??\C:\Windows\System32\TDIMedia.sysNavigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Shoreline Communications\ShoreWare Server\MySQL\MySQL Server
Edit mycdr and myconfig
After line "log-bin=mysql" Add line:
server-id=1
quickinstall -startallComing Soon!Coming Soon!