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AAD Connect Phone/Fax Mappings

Yesterday, while working with my colleague Michael Anderson, I needed to investigate where a particular on-premises value was being synced in AAD.  The result is this table:

AD Property Get-MsolUser Get-AzureADUser Get-User Get-CSOnlineUser
Friendly name ldapDisplayName
Telephone number telephoneNumber PhoneNumber TelephoneNumber Phone Phone
Pager pager – – Pager –
Mobile mobile MobilePhone – Fax MobilePhone
Fax facsimileTelephoneNumber Fax FacsimileTelephoneNumber Fax Fax
IP Phone ipPhone – – – IPPhone
Home homePhone – – HomePhone HomePhone
{otherMobile} {AlternateMobilePhones} – – –
{otherIpPhone} – – – –
{otherHomePhone} – – {OtherHomePhone} –
{otherFacsimileTelphoneNumber} – – {OtherFax} –
{otherPager} – – – –
{otherTelephone} – – {OtherTelephone} {OtherTelephone}

It’s important to note that values displayed in braces { } are multivalued attributes, so if there’s something stored in one on-premises that you need or want to map to a a different attribute in Azure AD, you’ll need to either map it to another multivalued attribute or extract the value so you can write it to a single-valued string attribute. … [ Continue reading ]

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Flashback to what it took to do math in DOS batch files

While working on a script for an upcoming project, I wanted to test for the presence of various Office versions, including 32-bit and 64-bit components before initiating setup. Here’s one way I found:

@ECHO OFF
SET CURRLOCATION32="C:\Program Files (x86)\MicrosoftOffice\root\Office16"
SET CURRLOCATION64="C:\Program Files\MicrosoftOffice\root\Office16"
SET PREV1LOCATION32="C:\Program Files (x86)\MicrosoftOffice\root\Office15"
SET PREV1LOCATION64="C:\Program Files\MicrosoftOffice\root\Office15"
SET PREV2LOCATION32="C:\Program Files (x86)\MicrosoftOffice\root\Office14"
SET PREV2LOCATION64="C:\Program Files\MicrosoftOffice\root\Office14"

REM Check for 64-bit versions
IF EXIST ""%CURRLOCATION64%\MANIFEST.XML""
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Export Credential Manager to PowerShell

If you ever find yourself in a sticky wicket and need to extract usernames and passwords from Credential Manager (usually because you forgot them), you can use this handy-dandy little function from PowerShell:

function ExportCredMan
{
    # Dump local passwords from credential manager
    [void][Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault,
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