I always dread the moment I have to reinstall my own laptop for work or home because of all the software I have to put on it. Recently I have discovered chocolatey and this has made it a very easy installation procedure. I did have to drop and swap some programs from there but beyond that it has […]
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Using PowerShell to change DNS servers
Using PowerShell to change DNS servers automatically EXAMPLE 1 PS C:\>Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceIndex 12 -ServerAddresses (“10.0.0.1″,”10.0.0.2”) This example sets the DNS server addresses on a specified interface with the index value of 12. EXAMPLE 2 PS C:\>Set-DnsClientServerAddress –InterfaceIndex 12 -ResetServerAddresses This example resets the DNS client to use the default DNS server addresses specified by […]
Custom Active Directory Domain Services Filter
Using Event Viewer to find error states in the “Active Directory Domain Services” role can be a big pain. I have created a custom filter that only displays errors, warnings and criticals. <QueryList> <Query Id=”0″ Path=”Directory Service”> <Select Path=”Directory Service”>*[System[Provider[@Name=’Microsoft-Windows-ActiveDirectory_DomainService’] and (Level=1 or Level=2 or Level=3)]]</Select> <Select Path=”Directory Service”>*[System[Provider[@Name=’NTDS ISAM’] and (Level=1 […]
Exchange 2013 and Lync 2010 Auto-attendant not working
After running an upgrade from Exchange 2010 to 2013 I began running into the issue that the voicemail for users was no longer working as intended. Several frustrating attempts to resolve this found a severe lack of documentation for this particular state of deployment. After a long, extensive search I came across a good post […]
Installing Lync 2013 IIS features via PowerShell
Based on my experiance with installing Lync 2013 you have to select a whole lot of features in IIS. I rarely like to just select all features in IIS as this is prone to making your server less secure. So I used this script; $features = (‘Web-Default-Doc’, ‘Web-Dir-Browsing’, ‘Web-Http-Errors’, ‘Web-Static-Content’, ‘Web-Http-Logging’, ‘Web-Log-Libraries’, ‘Web-Http-Tracing’, ‘Web-Stat-Compression’, ‘Web-Dyn-Compression’, […]
Exchange 2013 Certificate swap
After updating a certificate on Exchange 2013 I always remove the old certificate. This lead to the complete back-end not working properly anymore. A quick search on Bing concluded that Exchange does not bind the certificate to both the Default Web Site and the Exchange Back End, but purely to the Default Web Site. Manually […]
Migration from Exchange 2010 to 2013
Running migrations of Exchange is always a slow process, especially if you run into problems or hickups along the way. I’ve done my fare share of migrations and know a few basics to being with outright; Always migrate to a different server. Never do an inplace upgrade. I don’t even know if this is possible […]
Adding Exchange 2013 to PowerShell ISE
Adding support for Microsoft Exchange 2013 in PowerShell ISE: . ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\bin\RemoteExchange.ps1’ Connect-ExchangeServer -auto
Create bootable USB via Diskpart
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124.aspx http://elmajdal.net/Win7/Using_The_Windows_7_USB_DVD_Download_Tool.aspx
Installing ForeFront 2010 on Windows 8 or Server 2012
After my earlier post on ForeFront EndPoint Protection I managed to get several updates from Microsoft to allow it to function but this left me without a working installer for new systems. After ready the patch notes on the hotfixes I found the update responsible for the client (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26583 FEP2010-Update-Rollup-KB2551095-x64-ENU.exe) and managed to find the installer […]