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Active Directory Domain Controller Backups – Part 3
Time for the last part of the Active Directory Backup Series. The last 2 posts(#1 and #2) have been about defining what needs to be backed up and the scripts / commands that are used to describe. This...
View ArticleHow to remove a KMS Server from your infrastructure
These days I took a swing at some clean-up I had to do in our KMS servers list. In any large environment you are bound to find some configurations you either did not put in place (there is usually more...
View ArticleManaging DNS Aging and Scavenging settings using Powershell
Aging and scavenging of DNS records is a topic that is pretty well covered on the web. I’m not really looking to rehash all the information out there with this post. I will however put out some...
View ArticleAutomate Replacing of Certificates in vCenter 5.1
A few days ago, VMware launched a much awaited tool, called SSL Certificate Automation Tool. This tool enables VMware administrators to automate the process by which they replace expired/self-signed...
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Report DHCP Scope Settings using Powershell
It has been a busy time for me lately, but I’m back here to write about a script to Report on some basic DHCP scope settings. In my situation I used this script to find out which DHCP scopes had...
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vSphere Web Client 5.1 on Windows Server 2012 not starting up – Adobe Flash...
I’ve been doing some work the past week around setting up a new vSphere based Datacenter for a customer and I’ve found out that working with the latest and greatest versions of Windows and vCenter...
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Know thy Hypervisor’s limits: VMware HA, DRS and DPM
Last week I was setting up a vSphere Cluster and like any good admin, I was test driving all its features, making sure everything was working fine. As a side note, I’m trying to squeeze as much values...
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Create your own Wifi-hotspot Windows 7 / Windows 8
The topic of making your Windows box a wireless AP, and then sharing internet connection with your wireless devices connected, is not something new, but I’ve never seen anyone wrap Powershell around...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Update Resource Records in Microsoft DNS using Powershell
One of the great things I like about the (not so) new Windows 2008 R2 Powershell modules is that we can now more easily manage the core Microsoft Networking services (DNS, DHCP). I want to share a...
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Delete Leaf Objects from Active Directory User Object
The Story The past days I had a colleague of mine come to me with a user migration problem. He wanted to migrate a user between two child domains in an AD forest. For this most of the time you use...
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