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howto://change UPN suffixes with PowerShell

2011-10-10

Need to change the UPN suffix on a bunch of users, and don’t want to do it by hand? Here’s a simple PowerShell script to do the heavy lifting for you.

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howto://troubleshoot networks with tracert

2011-01-24

How to use the tracert command to diagnose and troubleshoot networking issues.

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howto://create user mailboxes with powershell

2011-01-21

If you have ever found yourself wanting to create a new mailbox at the cmd line using the Exchange Management Shell, then my latest post at TheEmailAdmin is for you. How to create user accounts and mailboxes with PowerShell cover the new-mailbox cmdlet in the EMS, and provides some examples for using it. If you [...]

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To err is human

2010-12-27

This time up on TheEmailAdmin, I go over the best kept secret in all of Microsoft’s command lines…the Microsoft Exchange Server Error Look-up tool, or err to his friends. You have seen this little gem mentioned before on this blog, and you may very well see it again. I like it that much. Check it [...]

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My files, they are justified and ancient

2010-11-24

Here’s a short post that shows you how to list out old files, in preparation for getting rid of them. You can see last accessed, last modified, or stick with created, and output to a test file.

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Guilty on the grounds of temporary insanity.

2010-10-18

DFSR reporting errors about files with the temporary attribute? Confused about that that is? Here’s how to fix that annoying issue.

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things that make me go squee

2010-09-22

One of the more geeky things that makes me go squeee is the collection of tools from Sysinternals. Now, one simple URL puts them at my fingertips from any server with Internet access. Squeee!

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Go change all the local admin passwords. Now.

2010-08-23

Periodically it may be necessary to reset the local administrator account’s password on all the computers in your domain. This post shows you a simple way to do so using a text file, the net user command, and the psexec command. It’s a cheap trick, but it gets the job done.

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Enumerating services with PowerShell

2010-08-13

Here’s a small PowerShell script that takes a list of computers, and enumerates all the configuration for all the services on each machine. It lists the state, and the “Log on as” which is usefull if you want to check your servers for service accounts come password change time.

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howto://troubleshoot networks with tcping

2010-07-16

A great tool for troubleshooting TCP based connectivity is TCPING.EXE, by Eli Fulkerson. This post goes over how TCP works, and how to use this tool to troubleshoot networks.

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howto://troubleshoot networks with ping

2010-07-09

Call this network troubleshooting 101, where we’ll go over how to use the venerable PING command to do some basic network troubleshooting. This is probably something most of you will point n00bs to…it’s intended to help bring those n00bs up a notch in their troubleshooting skillz, which ultimately will help you too.

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howto://bulk modify user home directory paths with dsmod

2010-04-14

  We’re moving all of our file shares from single server physical paths to DFS paths to help with fault-tolerance and disaster recovery, and to make it easier to move things around if we ever want to rebalance our file servers or decommission older servers. One of the things that became necessary is modifying users’ [...]

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