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 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 I’ve started leaving my security cameras live stream via Chrome (Unifi Protect) visible at all times on one of my monitors. It’s been great but the issue is my monitors won’t turn off at night. After some digging I cam across this nifty little command. Open up powershell (run it as admin) and run
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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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