Information Technology, and other interesting things …
Some times I have the problem, I need to resize or delete a VMware virtual disk, but I only know the guest’s drive letter. In vm’s where there are only one virtual disk, or where each virtual disk has a different size, this isn’t a problem. but if you have a vm with multiple virtual … Read More “how to get the correct Virtual Disk for a VMware vm” »
If you demote a Domain Controller, SCOM will generate a lot of alerts. By design, there is no automatically undiscovery for the Rules and Monitores for the Active Directory Roles. Solution 1 This solution will remove all disabled Class instances from an existing object. it will not change any other properties of the object. Open … Read More “demoted Domain Controller still present in SCOM” »
Today I had a request from a first-level-admin which need the Bitlocker Recovery Password for a already deleted computer object. Here is what I came up with: $compname = “ComputerName” $SearchRoot = “CN=Deleted Objects,DC=domain,DC=local” $recoverykeys = Get-QADObject -Tombstone -Recycled -Type “msFVE-RecoveryInformation” -SizeLimit 0 -Includedproperties msFVE-RecoveryPassword -SearchRoot $SearchRoot | ? {$_.lastknownparent -like “*$compname*”} | select msFVE-RecoveryPassword … Read More “recover deleted Bitlocker Recovery Informations” »
Anyone out there who runs a successful Microsoft Windows Active Directory, knows that it is pre-eminently useful to have a test environment that very nearly represents your production environment…to do…you know…testing! I thought I would give that a try, and here’s what I came up with: Shutdown and clone a Virtual Domain Controller with a … Read More “Clone your Active Directory in 18 minutes using VMware” »
I’m working now for over 15 years in information technology, but i got never before a server response which is so straight and funny too: The server is unwilling to process the request. Maybee the server could do it, but he doesn’t like it. The error above was caused by this simple vb-script, when user … Read More “unwilling Server” »
Maybe you want to disable the autodiscovery feature in Outlook 2007 / 2010 for your full mail domain – maybe you don’t like the feature, or your mail server doesn’t support it. For this, there is an easy solution: Define in your DNS-server an A-entry for autodiscover.domain.com pointing to 127.0.0.1.
In my environment, i have a lot of users, which never comes to the office, but need remote access to the company network. for this they have an AD user account, which password will expires for company policy after 90 days. Cause they never logon to a domain computer, they didn’t get the “Change Password … Read More “Notify AD user with mail when password expires” »
Cause of company policy we don’t delete users which are leaving, but we disabled them. The exchange mailbox will be removed after some months. For this incomming mails have to be forwarded to an exchange contact with an unresolvable address, so the sender receives an error message. Cause of this, we need to remove the … Read More “Remove all disabled users from distribution lists” »
For years, when you need to define a Windows Storage as iSCSI target, you need a paid software, cause Microsoft iSCSI target software did only run on the Windows Storage Server edition. As of April 2011, the target software is now available for free and supported in any Windows 2008 R2 edition! You can use … Read More “Free iSCSI Target for Windows available” »
Problem: Did you ever searched an special email-address in your active directory? If yes, you will know, that there isn’t a special field for the email-addresses. Solution: Go to active directory users and computers (ADUC). Right click on the domain and choose Find. Select Custom Search in the Find-Field and Entire Directory in the In-Field. … Read More “Find AD-User from Email-Address” »
