Recently I’ve been working on staff account creation automation and wanted to use employee IDs as the unique identifier. So before I could unleash my script to create accounts I needed to populate all existing users with their IDs. Here is a script I wrote that can be easily adjusted to update other AD attributes …
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I’m currently in the process of of extracting every mailbox from exchange .edb and exporting them to individual PST’s per user. Started doing this by hand and it was taking forever. Here is the process I used to streamline it. Exporting PSTs We purchased a copy of Stellar Repair for Exchange then exported mailboxes as …
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I currently use Adaxes to manage all our AD/Exchange accounts and have a report built to find accounts missing staff photos. I’ve wanted to streamline this process as currently we have our front off staff take staff photos when they’re onboarded then dump the photos into a network share. In doing some account clean up …
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I’ve been noticing some application errors on our file server “VSS (7001)”. These are due to volume shadow copy which is enabled in disk management per drive. My issue is from not disabling VSS on drives I’ve removed so the task schedule is still trying to run. How to Fix The Error First lets list …
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I’ve been using the free trial of Netwrix to find failed logins and sadly it’s way out of our budget for K-12 so I’ve been searching for another solution and can help the team. We’ve been having an uptick in AD accounts getting locked due to numerous login failed attempts. 99% of the time it’s …
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I was recently informed by David you can use BBWin on a windows server to automatically restart/start a service if the status changes to red for example. So I decided to give it a try. Print Servers (the Baine of our existence) are some of the most unreliable services we run. We run both Server …
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LAPS provides a way to automatically rotate the local Administrator password on domain joined machines every X amount of days to a random password. I’ll be installing it on one of my domain controllers. Download LAPS and Install. Download LAPS and be sure to install all the management tools also. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 Extend the AD Schema …
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I’ve been having trouble using chrome extensions inside a windows 10 VM. Reinstalled Chrome, cleared the cache, disable all extensions etc. yet I still have the issue. Everything else looks fine! Normally I wouldn’t care as most of the time they’re not needed except for when I want to access some of my passwords via …
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I’ve always used a random password generator for some sub accounts that change weekly via task scheduler. The issue with that is the lower case l and 1’s depending on the systems font look very similar resulting in tickets saying the password doesn’t work. I’ve patched together this script from a few online sources and …
PowerShell – Generate password from word list and numbers for AD User Read More »
After rebuilding our DHCP server our helpdesk staff told me they could no longer view it with RSAT. All they see is a red error. When you install the DHCP role on the server 2 new groups are created in Local User and Groups setting on the server. We just need to add our security …
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