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Group Policy allows you to add and remove users to an Active Directory (AD) group. Using this feature improves security because you can ensure that high-risk security groups only contain the users that you specify via Group Policy. To manage the Domain Admins group, you will need Remote Server Administration Tools(RSAT) installed. After installing that, open up the Group Policy Management […]
Read moreThe scripts explained in this post allow you to automate several Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) tasks such as synchronization, approvals, cleanups, and scheduled update installations. Syncing WSUS with PowerShell and Task Scheduler ^ In this article, I assume you are familiar with WSUS administration. Right after installing WSUS, you have to configure periodic synchronization. Unfortunately, as you can see in […]
Read moreInstall the Remote Access Server Role We will be doing this through a GUI. Open Server Manger and click on Manage and select Add Roles and Features. A wizard comes up, select Next and click on Roles based or feature based installation and click on Next. On the next page select the destination server, which is the local machine. Select […]
Read moreWhat is Password Replication Policy? Password Replication Policy (PRP) determines which users’ credentials can be cached on a specific RODC. If PRP allows an RODC to cache a user’s credentials, authentication and service ticket activities of that user can be processed by the RODC. If a user’s credentials cannot be cached on an RODC, authentication and service ticket activities are […]
Read moreLet me give you a basic introduction first before we jump right into the installation. From here on I will refer to Read Only Domain COntroller as simply RODC. What is RODC? An RODC is a domain controller, typically placed in the branch office, that maintains a copy of all objects in the domain and all attributes except for secrets […]
Read moreI came across a brilliant solution that will blow your mind away and save all you System Admins out there having similar issue. The solution that I am referring to is an application called Junction. Directory symbolic links are known as NTFS junctions in Windows. Many of you must be aware that Microsoft introduced a concept of directory symbolic links […]
Read moreNow there are several ways that you can remove members from a group. The simplest of all is by using Remove-ADGroupMember. Let us see the examples associated with this cmdlet. Get-Help Remove-ADGroupMember -Examples As you can see in the Examples, we need to know the Members that are part of the group in order to remove them from the group. […]
Read moreSay that I have a Distribution List called “Finance Team“. At first I will have to find out the members of the Distribution List so then I can individually find their mailbox sizes. $GroupName = Read-Host “Kindly provide the name of the Distribution Group” Get-DistributionGroupMember $GroupName | Select Name | Export-Csv c:\Members.csv -NoTypeInformation Let us see what did we do […]
Read moreToday we will be seeing how to create Shared Mailbox in Exchange Server 2010. Before we move ahead with the creation part, let us first see the different type of mailboxes that are present in Exchange Server 2010. Once you open up the New Mailbox wizard, you will see the below options as seen in the screenshot. You must have […]
Read moreIn this article we will be using Powershell to perform this. But be aware that we can do this from Active Directory Users and Computers as well. Let us say that we have a user Ronnie and the description provided for the user is “Ronnie is from the Marketing Team” You can see the below from the Active Directory Users […]
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