Michael Seidl, Author at TechGuy

Find unique SamAccountName and UPN for User Onboarding with the Help of AI

PowerShell / Michael Seidl / March 31, 2025

Every IT Admin who is responsible for User Onboarding will understand the struggle of finding a unique Login Name and UPN for new Users. Some combinations might also be offensive or embarrassing. Depending on your Name Schema, finding unique Names for “Finn Ucker” or “Peter Immel” could result in some “fun” Usernames, depending on your […]

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Using Azure Key Vault to store your Azure Automation Credentials and Secrets

Azure Automation / Michael Seidl / March 28, 2025

Recently, we successfully conducted a POC for a Customer to migrate away from Azure Automation Credentials and Variables and everything to Azure KeyVault. In this case, the Customer is using Azure Automation for Cloud Automation, an Azure VM as a Hybrid Worker for onPrem Automation, and local PS Script for that VM. So, we have

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Monitor your Azure Secrets, Zerts and SPN’s Expire Date with PowerShell – now with an Exclude List

PowerShell / Michael Seidl / February 25, 2025

Azure App Registrations are a secure way to provide Credentials and Access to the Azure World. The Amount of Azure App Registrations in a Tenant is increasing very fast, so it is not that easy to control and monitor all those Secrets, Zert, and SPN’s Expire Date. So I have written a PowerShell Script to

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Behind the Scenes: Podcast Equipment and Automation Techniques

Allgemein / Michael Seidl / November 18, 2024

In my recent podcast episode, I discussed how my podcast was produced. This is the written version of my Equipment and Workflow. Ideas So, I get my ideas for the podcast from my community or my sessions. I started a year ago with my first “non Technical” session, “Get Sh*t done in IT,” and this

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Mail Alerting on Azure Automation Accounts

Azure Automation / Michael Seidl / September 23, 2024

We are working heavily with Azure Automation for our customers and often need a simple Alert for errors happening in a runbook. Of course, there are plenty of Alerting Solutions where you can integrate Azure Automation. We often see that things don’t go well or that the Alerts are not monitored. When we do Azure

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Send a OneDrive File via Mail with MS GRAPH API and Powershell

PowerShell / Michael Seidl / February 20, 2024

Recently, I automated our invoice sending and automatically uploaded the file to OneDrive and sent it via mail. today, I want to show a snipped of this code on how to download a file from Onedrive and Send via Mail More Details here: DriveItem – OneDrive API – OneDrive dev center | Microsoft Learn The

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Create a Teams Appointment with MS GRAPH API and Powershell

PowerShell / Michael Seidl / February 20, 2024

Recently, I created an Azure Automation Runbook to keep my Notions Tasks in Sync with my Calendar. I used Graph API to create and update my Outlook Events. From this, I also tried to send a Teams Appointment Invite with Powershell and Graph API. The result is below. More Details here: Create event – Microsoft

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Create an Outlook Appointment with MS GRAPH API and Powershell

PowerShell / Michael Seidl / February 1, 2024

Recently, I created an Azure Automation Runbook to keep my Notions Tasks in Sync with my Calendar. I used Graph API to create and update my Outlook Events. So, we need Powershell and the Following GRAPH API Permission for our Script. More Details here: Create event – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Learn The Script

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Use Freshdesk API with PowerShell

Allgemein / Michael Seidl / January 23, 2024

Recently, we moved our Support Portal to Freshdesk, so I adopted our Syncs to Freshdesk API. This Article should show you how to start working with Freshdesk API and how to create and Sync a Company. For detailed Documentation and all Endpoints, see Freshdesk API Reference: Freshdesk Get API Key First, we need an API

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Draft Mail with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API

PowerShell / Michael Seidl / January 15, 2024

Recently, I updated our internal Invoice automation and wanted to send invoices automatically (cause the Invoice SAAS has a bad Offic 365 integration). In the first month, we wanted to check the Invoice Emails before sending them, so we manually published them as a Draft and clicked the Send button. To learn more from Microsoft

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