Many moons ago I provided a CSV file containing 200 sample AD user accounts together with instructions on how to use CSVDE to import the accounts into AD. I often use these sample accounts in lab environments and for presentations. I thought it would be fun to write a small powershell script to read the… Read More »
Quest has just released a freeware product called Quick Connect Express for Active Directory. If you’re looking for something that fills the gap left by the (now pensionable) Microsoft Identity Integration Feature Pack, then this may well be it. I’ve spent the last day looking at the product’s capabilities for running Exchange 2010 Global Address… Read More »
If you’ve been working with Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 you will know that there are several pre-requisites to download and install. Once downloaded you end up with a bunch of *.msu (Windows Update) files. If, like me, you have to install them on several servers and don’t like the idea of having to… Read More »
I was recently involved in a task to consolidate an OU structure. Part of this involved moving user objects from one OU to another and re-linking GPOs that were linked to the old OU to the new OU. There were a large number of links and I didn’t fancy adding them manually, so I spent… Read More »