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How to install Exchange 2010 (SP3) on Windows Server 2012
Now Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 has been released it provides support for Windows Server 2012 as the host operating system. In this blog we’ll run through the installation process. The demo environment...
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Where is Windows Server 2012 Sysprep?
If you are building a Windows Server 2012 lab for testing and want to remove unique information from the Server so you can replicate it rather than run through the install multiple times use Sysprep....
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PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve logon scripts and home directories – Part 1
Having recently taken on a new client with a system that had been neglected somewhat I wanted to find out about the state of their user accounts. I’d already looked at a couple of users at random and...
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PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve logon scripts and home directories – Part 2
In Part 1 we looked at the Get-ADUser command, and used it to create a list of all users and display their homedrive, homedirectory and scriptpath. In this post we’ll look at refining the results a...
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ADUC: Object username contains other objects. Are you sure you want to delete...
While deleting a few disabled user accounts today I came across a warning message I’ve not encountered before. I was only deleting a user account and had already deleted a number of them so what was...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview now...
Microsoft have released Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Preview today. They can be downloaded from the following links: Windows Server 2012...
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices
Roger Osborne from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team has written an very detailed Hyper-V 2012 Best Practice checklist. Based upon his previous work on Hyper-V 2008 R2, the list is...
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PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve password last set and expiry information
I’ve written about Get-ADUser before here and here where we used it to create a list of all users and display their homedrive, homedirectory and scriptpath properties. In this post we’ll look...
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PowerShell: Get-ADComputer to retrieve computer last logon date – part 1
I’ve written about Get-ADUser several times already to find out Active Directory user information, but in this post we’ll be using Get-ADComputer to find out the last logon date for the computers in...
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PowerShell: Get-ADComputer to retrieve computer last logon date (and disable...
In this article we’ll look at using Get-ADComputer and Set-ADComputer to list computer accounts which haven’t logged in for xx days, and then automatically disable them. In part 1 we looked at how to...
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PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve logon scripts and home directories – Part 1
Having recently taken on a new client with a system that had been neglected somewhat I wanted to find out about the state of their user accounts. I’d already looked at a couple of users at random and...
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PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve logon scripts and home directories – Part 2
In Part 1 we looked at the Get-ADUser command, and used it to create a list of all users and display their homedrive, homedirectory and scriptpath. In this post we’ll look at refining the results a...
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ADUC: Object username contains other objects. Are you sure you want to delete...
While deleting a few disabled user accounts today I came across a warning message I’ve not encountered before. I was only deleting a user account and had already deleted a number of them so what was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview now...
Microsoft have released Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Preview today. They can be downloaded from the following links: Windows Server 2012...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices
Roger Osborne from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team has written an very detailed Hyper-V 2012 Best Practice checklist. Based upon his previous work on Hyper-V 2008 R2, the list is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve password last set and expiry information
I’ve written about Get-ADUser before here and here where we used it to create a list of all users and display their homedrive, homedirectory and scriptpath properties. In this post we’ll look...
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PowerShell: Get-ADComputer to retrieve computer last logon date – part 1
I’ve written about Get-ADUser several times already to find out Active Directory user information, but in this post we’ll be using Get-ADComputer to find out the last logon date for the computers in...
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PowerShell: Get-ADComputer to retrieve computer last logon date (and disable...
In this article we’ll look at using Get-ADComputer and Set-ADComputer to list computer accounts which haven’t logged in for xx days, and then automatically disable them. In part 1 we looked at how to...
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PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve disabled user accounts
I’ve written about Get-ADUser several times before because it is a pretty essential cmdlet for any Active Directory administrator, but I haven’t written about it in a while. Recently I had a need to...
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PowerShell: How to use Get-ADUser to list all recently created accounts (and...
For the next couple of posts I’ll be looking into AD security and auditing. In this article we’ll look at how to use Get-ADUser to list all recently created accounts. With the increasing number of...
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