Kirkcaldy 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. […]
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 […]
Welcome to the new AutomaShell! We recently moved from troyward.me (my name, before I came up with something super clever like “AutomaShell” [Automate + PowerShell = AutomaShell, eh eh get it?!]) to the actual site domain of AutomaShell.com. Our domain was not the only change. If you didn’t already notice (or, maybe you’re a new […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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I was recently asked to search for multiple terms across multiple file servers for legal discovery reasons. Once these files were located, they needed to copied to another location while retaining the original file structure (e.g. \\server\drive\path1\path2\file.txt). This is actually a fairly easy and straight forward task. What it does This script will crawl multiple […]
Hello! Today I am going to show you how to enable the Exchange 2010 online archive in a mixed (2007/2010) environment, by OU. Long title, I know! Here is what we’re working with.. Mixed environment Enable based on OU Split online archives amongst 4 different databases What it does This function will get users from […]
Welcome to my first post! Today I am going to show you how to easily deploy VM's using VMware's PowerCLI, and PowerShell. This is all possible through the vCenter client, but I believe most of the questions asked can be skipped in favor of static parameters. For this reason, we will only see 3 prompts […]
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