A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
I’m doing some load testing on one of my SMTP Smart Hosts, and needed to send a few thousand emails in a controlled space of time. I’ve written this quick little script to do so: $scriptSettings = @{ NumberOfEmails = 100 TimeBetweenEmails = 1 #in seconds MailDestination = ‘user.name@contoso.com’ MailSubject = ‘Test’ MailServer = ‘mail.contoso.com’ MailFrom = ‘no-reply@contoso.com’ } for […]
Read moreWith the advent of Windows PowerShell, performing bulk tasks just gets easier and easier. Consider a scenario where you have a bunch of Domain Local groups that you need to convert to Global…or any other type of conversion. This is a task that can take a large amount of time to complete manually, even with copious amounts of coffee and […]
Read moreIn this article, I’ll show you how to disable the Windows Firewall on A Windows Nano Server 2016. Below, you will see two methods to do it one using Netsh and the second using Set-NetFirewallProfile (PowerShell) you can use either of them. To disable the firewall connect to your Nano Server using PowerShelland run the line below to disable the Firewall: netsh […]
Read moreIn this article, I’ll show you how to modify \ Change the existing DNS Server IP address on a Windows Nano Server 2016. To complete this operation, You will need to connect to the Server with an admin account and use Remote PowerShell. To get started, I’ve connected to my Nano Server using PowerShell Remote. Once connected, I’ll need to find […]
Read moreTo join the Nano Server to my Active Directory domain I’ll use offline Domain Join utility (Djoin.exe). To complete this you will need to run the Djoin command from a domain controller or from a member server joined to the domain. To start the process run the command line below from the command prompt tool: The command will create a […]
Read moreIn this article, I’ll show you how I connect to my Windows Server 2016 using PowerShell Remoting. To get started, I Open a Windows PowerShell console. Note:If your Nano Server Is not part of your domain type the line below, do add it to the Trusted Hosts list on your machine. Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value 192.68.0.21 -Concatenate Next, I type the line below to […]
Read moreThis article will show you how to export a single folder from an entire mailbox to a PST file on Exchange Server 2010, 2013 and 2016. To start the process open EMS and type the command below (change mailbox and source folder path). New-MailboxExportRequest -mailbox adminu -SourceRootFolder “Inbox/folder” -filepath \\exchange\C$\Source\adminu.pst Example: ( New-MailboxExportRequest -mailbox “Matt Heitman” –FilePath \\ltivw-p-mbx03\pst$\mheitman2.pst ) You can import it to another mailbox […]
Read moreThis Active Directory PowerShell Module code will show you how to the primary SMTP address of users using their SAMACCOUNTNAME. In this scenario, You have a list of users’ SAMACCOUNT name login details and you want to know \ get their email address. In this case, My Users.txt file has a list of users with which looks like this: User1 […]
Read moreToday, I’ll show you another classic PowerShell Code for Exchange Server that will let you search for users with a mailbox size of X and above. I came across the need to do this when I had to rebalance mailboxes on Exchange Server and wanted to know which users have mailboxes over 5GB. The code below. Will show you all […]
Read moreA common task many system administrators do is adding computers to an Active Directory domain. Since Active Directory is embedded in so many organizations, nearly every IT professional is probably familiar with the box below. Active Directory domain join This PowerShell snippet above connects remotely to the computer NAMEHERE, attempts to join it to the domain domain.here and then afterward […]
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