Permissions - The Lazy Administrator

Create a Real Time Interactive Dashboard for Office 365 Using PowerShell Universal Dashboard

April 9, 2018 Brad Wyatt Comments 6 comments

If you have never heard of PowerShell Universal Dashboard you need to head on over to PoshUD right now and check out this awesome PowerShell Module. Using PowerShell Core, Material Design, ReactJS and ASP.NET Core, Universal Dashboard takes advantage of cutting-edge technology to provide cross-platform, cross-device dashboards that looks sleek and modern.¹

While reading over some other posts about what other people have done with PowerShell Universal Dashboard, I wondered if there was a way to create a interactive dashboard that would hook into Office 365 and gather data from it. At first, I attempted to create a dashboard that would create a PSSession to Office 365 but it presented some problems and overall was quite slow. I then decided to use the Microsoft Graph REST API to connect to Office 365. This allows it to refresh the data within in the dashboard quickly and takes seconds to connect.… Continue...

Monitor Share and NTFS Permissions and E-Mail Changes

March 17, 2018 Brad Wyatt Comments 1 comment

Recently I set out to find a way to get PowerShell to monitor NTFS and File permissions on a folder and file share. I wanted to know when permissions changed, how they changed (Read permission changed to Write permission), keep historical permission data I can reference, and lastly e-mail me the changes when they changed.

To keep historical data I made it create a new folder for each day it runs. The folder name is the date which is formatted as MMddyyyy. The next day it will run it will import the previous days results and compare them to the results of that day’s.

Each time the script runs it will append any permission changes to the results CSV file instead of overwriting any previous results. This allows you to get an overview what has changed and when, that will span more than a single day. The CSV file also … Continue...