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PowerShell – Having fun with Compare-Object in the 2012 Scripting Games
This year I was competing in the Windows PowerShell Scripting Games 2012. One of the exercises in the Beginners class was to compare two folders. Ed Wilson (Microsoft ScriptingGuy) provided a script to...
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PowerShell function to generate a random password
This is part of one of my AD migration scripts which I find very useful. Whenever creating a user, I like to generate a random and complex password. The length of the password differs for each of my...
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Powershell function to create a random password with complexity requirement
Today I wrote a post with a Powershell function to create a complex password. Although it does generate a complex password, it would not be enough for the complexity policy for passwords in Windows....
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Grant full access to a group on a mailbox in Multi-tenant Hosted Exchange...
Yesterday I helped a fellow IT Pro out with an issue concerning Exchange and PowerShell. Why user PowerShell? Well, in an Exchange 2010 SP2 Multi-tenant hosted environment there isn’t a management...
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Mail enable Active Directory contacts in Exchange with a PowerShell oneliner
Last week a community peer asked me on Facebook to assist him with a challenge. His issue was that he had imported contacts into Active Directory by using a tool named “ldifde”. This tool also filled...
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Manage Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V in SCVMM 2012 –Unknown Hypervisor
This morning I received an email from a community peer stating that he was unable to manage Hyper-V 3.0 in Windows Server 2012 by using SCVMM 2012 CTP. The specific error message: “Error (12704) :...
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Convert a domain name to a usable distinguished name format
Every once in a while I need to get the domain name from a computer and use it in a PowerShell script. But when you do something like “Get-WMIObject –Class Win32_ComputerSystem | Select-Object...
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PowerShell – Searching for the cause of a user account that keeps getting...
Earlier this week a colleague was asked to troubleshoot an issue where a user account kept getting locked out. So, we wanted to know from which device the faulty credentials were being used that were...
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So you think a domain local group cannot be a member of a domain local group?
Last weekend I did some scripting again and stumbled upon something I found rather funny. For as long as I can remember, it has not been possible to make a domain local group a member of another domain...
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SCVMM Warning (3107)–The format of the file yourvirtualdisk.avhd is not...
Problem You’re getting an error in SCVMM stating that the format of a aVHD file on a Hyper-V server is not compatible with the VHD format. It is specified with the warning code 3107. Cause Although...
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Having some fun with a NIC and PowerShell
I was just asked on Twitter to write a script to disable all disconnected NIC’s on Windows Server 2008 R2 through the use of PowerShell. First, let’s start with the basics… getting all NIC’s. For this...
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SCVMM – Custom inventory about VM and VHD with PowerShell
Whenever I go to a new customer with a Hyper-V and SCVMM environment, there are a bunch of scripts I run in order to get a view of their environment. One of those is to get all VM’s, the the VHD sizes...
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PowerShell to quickly provision an Active Directory for events and...
Just now I’ve uploaded my first script into the Microsoft TechNet Script Repository… New-DemoAD.ps1 This is a PowerShell script/function one can use to quickly fill an Active Directory with demo users...
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THE Microsoft Private Cloud Computing book to get and read
This is a book I’ve been looking forward to for some time now (along with a few PowerShell books and of course the Hyper-V book from Leandro Carvalho @LeandroEduardo (Hyper-V Administrator’s CookBook)…...
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The rise and fall of the Metro UI in Windows 8
Ever since the Developer Preview of Windows 8 came out, I started working with it. Especially on tablet devices, this was a very nice experience. But I found that the Metro UI was not something I could...
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SCVMM – A PowerShell one liner to report the Cluster Shared Volumes utilization
I’ve just been asked by a community peer to write a script that will report on the utilization of cluster shared volumes on his Hyper-V environment. Since they are using SCVMM, normally I would tell...
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What does the Best Practice Analyzer in Windows Server check for?
Whenever I install a server, I run the Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) for all installed roles just to check if I haven’t messed up. But when I did it this morning for a Hyper-V installation, I was...
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Switch your display through the command line
In Windows 7 Microsoft has introduced a very nice feature, the ability to extend/duplicate your desktop to an external screen. In Windows XP I found it to be very, very annoying whenever I had to use a...
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PowerShell – Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2012
This afternoon I received an email from Microsoft providing me the beta of a tool named “Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2012 Beta”. First, I think they forgot to change the name of the...
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Move disabled user accounts with a PowerShell oneliner
Today I’ve been asked to find all disabled user accounts in a OU named “Branch Offices”. Next, we wanted to move those accounts to an OU named “Disabled Users”. It seems this is fairly simple by using...
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