Many of us have upgraded our VCenter and ESXi hosts and then stepped back and forgot to upgrade the virtual hardware and VMTools. This can lead to problems with performance and compatibility. Problem is that in order to upgrade the virtual hardware you have to shutdown the machine, right click, upgrade hardware etc, very long… Read More »
Create a CSV file with relevant data i.e. sAMAccountName,postalCode,givenName,sn user.name,444444,user,name Then import and run piping results to a csv. Adapt the CSV and Set-AdUser sections to do what job you need. $data = Import-CSV -Path .\data.csv $data | ForEach-Object { $user = Get-ADUser -Filter “sAMAccountName -like ‘*$($_.sAMAccountName)*’” -Properties st,postalCode Set-ADUser -identity $user.sAMAccountName -PostalCode $_.postalCode }… Read More »
Powershell script that can be adapted to license Office 365 with various service plans. Import-Module MSOnline Connect-MsolService -Credential $Credentials $SessionParams = @{ ConfigurationName = “Microsoft.Exchange” ConnectionUri = “https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/” Credential = $Credentials Authentication = “Basic” AllowRedirection = $true} $Session = New-PSSession @SessionParams Import-PSSession -Session $Session -DisableNameChecking:$true -AllowClobber:$true | Out-Null #Get… Read More »
A nice quick script to get machines that have not logged on to the network in over x days, move to another OU and disable. $d = [DateTime]::Today.AddDays(-365) $todisable = Get-ADComputer -Filter ‘PasswordLastSet -le $d’ -Properties PasswordLastSet | Where-Object {$_.DistinguishedName -notlike “*OU=Disabled*”} $todisable | %{Move-ADObject -Identity $_.DistinguishedName -TargetPath “OU=Disabled,OU=Computers,DC=domain,DC=local” | FT Name,PasswordLastSet} $todisable |… Read More »
Exam laptops are often required under strict rules one of the main been that you are not allowed network connections, the other only allowing to access a limited number of applications. This causes an issue for network admins as how do you apply a local group policy using gpedit.msc without that policy affecting the administrator account. Well… Read More »
Are you seeing this error on your replicates [2014-05-14 00:01:58] [INFO] Connect to destination[2014-05-14 00:01:58] [INFO] Connected[2014-05-14 00:01:58] [INFO] START block sent[2014-05-14 00:01:59] [INFO] START block received[2014-05-14 00:01:59] [ERROR] Target unable to resume[2014-05-14 00:01:59] [ERROR] Transfer failed[2014-05-14 00:01:59] [INFO] Sent total 83.08 KB[2014-05-14 00:01:59] [INFO] Average speed 41.54 KB/s[2014-05-14 00:02:20] [ERROR] zfs: Bad file number… Read More »
Recently I had an issue where a user moved a spreadsheet that contained hundreds of hyperlinks to files stored on the server. Obviously once moved none of the links worked and I was tasked with trying to change all these links without spending weeks doing it manually. The only real option is to create a… Read More »
If you need to set the out of office for multiple users you can use a powershell script Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration ALIAS -AutoReplyState scheduled -StartTime “07/12/2013 14:05:00” -EndTime “08/05/2013 08:00:00” -ExternalAudience all -InternalMessage $oof -ExternalMessage $oof where the variable $oof is a predefined message. $oof = “I’m not in the office currently” Here I’ll give a more… Read More »
Signature Setup Source Files Many companies provide software to add signatures to emails you send out and even Exchange has the ability to text to the bottom of users emails. With the help of several forums I’ve made the following script. What it does is creates a Outlook signature file and sets it as default… Read More »
I give this script to remote users so they can remove the Proxy settings when off site. set WshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 strComputer = “.” Set objRegistry = GetObject(“winmgmts:\” & strComputer & “rootdefault:StdRegProv”) strKeyPath = “SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings” wshshell.run “tskill iexplore /a” strValueName = “ProxyEnable” dwValue = 0 objRegistry.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, strValueName, dwValue… Read More »