A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
A 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 […]
Read moreAn RODC is a domain controller (DC) that holds a read-only copy of the Active Directory database and the SYSVOL folder. It supports unidirectional replication and only pulls data from its replication partner when the data changes on writable domain controllers. Enterprises can deploy RODCs in branch offices where they cannot guarantee physical security. RODC characteristics ^ The following characteristics differentiate […]
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 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 […]
Read moreWe all know, people join organizations and leave organizations at regular intervals. And we as System Administrators have to create and manage their user accounts in Active Directory. As a best practice, we all set an expiration date to the user account that is created. But do we delete those accounts if they are no longer in use? Its hard […]
Read moreToday we will find empty groups in Active Directory using Powershell. You all may know that we as System Administrators are required to create groups in the Active Directory for all sorts of purposes and reasons. But over time, do people who request for these groups really utilise them? It is bound to happen that your domain will be filled […]
Read moreI ran across a requirement where in I had to find out whether the emails generated from one mailbox were getting delivered to the recipient mailbox successfully or not. As you must be aware that all the mails that are sent or received in an Exchange organization has to be routed from the Hub Transport Server. But first, let me […]
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