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’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
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I’m needing to migrate from Windows Server 2012 R2 to 2019. This is fairly straight forward with PowerShell. This guide assumes you have an existing 2012R2 server with DHCP role and a clean 2019 server fully patched. Before you begin document your current system such as current hostname / and IP Address. I’m going to
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I needed a way to find out if any of our staff employeeType was part of incorrect distribution lists. Example: Classified staff shouldn’t be part of any distribution lists that contains “Licensed”. Here is the output: If you wanted to export this to a csv just add on “| Export-Csv C:\” to the end so
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Recently needed to find a way to export all staff into a csv file with only their name and EmployeeID. First I ran the GET-ADuser command below for a single user. This will display all the user’s attributes. Be sure to change username to a domain user. Now that you have a file with all
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