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Troy
June 7, 2018
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Nutanix: Add Unprotected VMs to Protection Domain

One line of goodness….

Troy
April 25, 2017
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Disable, Move or Delete stale/stagnant/unused computer objects from Active Directory

Hi everybody. I haven’t posted in quite some time (2+ years), but I’m going to post this nugget here today! Back in december 2015, we had a need to disable, move and delete unused computer objects after a certain amount of days. 21 to disable and 28 to remove. This has been in production since […]

Troy
January 3, 2014
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Get all Exchange SMTP addresses and export to CSV

Heyo and Happy New Year! A new year brings even more acquisitions and as such, the ongoing desire to automate as many of these tasks as possible. Our latest one is nice because they are a decent sized company, running Microsoft products, namely Exchange. As with nearly all acquisitions, these companies have multiple aliases for […]

Troy
June 6, 2013
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User Termination (Part 2)

In this 2 part series I will show you how to build an automated and audit-friendly user termination process. In Part 1, I showed you how to get the users into a centralized location and execute basic user termination actions. For Part 2, we will fully automate the process of the user being deleted from […]

Troy
May 30, 2013
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User Termination (Part 1)

In this 2 part series I will show you how to build an automated and audit friendly user termination process. Part 1 will cover the user interaction phase (receiving the termination request and entering the user), while part 2 will cover the actual archival/removal of the terminated user. You can find part 2 here. Scenario […]

Troy
April 29, 2013
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Search Active Directory with PowerShell (LDAP)

If you’re like me and you find yourself in a PowerShell session pretty much all day, then it is nice to have all of the tools you need most at the tip of your fingers. For me, I often have to search for a user, and my tool of choice for many years has been ADUC. […]

Troy
April 26, 2013
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Enable Exchange 2010 Online Archive in a mixed environment (Part 2: By Database)

Today I will show you how to enable the OA by database inside a mixed environment. Mixed environment Enable based on Database Split online archives among 4 different databases What it does This function will get users from a specific database, ensure they are Exchange 2010 users, and enable the online archive while spreading the […]

Troy
April 22, 2013
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OSCustomizationSpec & Windows Server 2012

Summary If you have tried to deploy a Server 2012 server using a oscustomization, you have probably noticed it failed. Part of our customization is to set IP info and join the machine to the domain. Issue There is a conflict between the windows NIC and the OSCustomization. I am not sure what the root […]

Troy
March 4, 2013
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Setup new AD Forest on Server 2012 Core

I’ve recently setup 5 or 6 different lab environments and one of those setups was all server 2012 core. To get started on the lab, I needed a DC (aside from the initial Hyper-V server). In a few quick steps, I’ll show you how to setup a new forest using Server 2012 core. 1. Login […]

Troy
December 19, 2012
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Introducing Ping2RDP

I created this tool at the request of a couple of co-workers. We were annoyed with the process of having RDP sessions fail, even though the server was ping-able. Click here to read about and download Ping2RDP