On and off over the past couple of days I’ve been trialling one of Quest’s cloud services – OnDemand Recovery for AD. The other service that Quest currently offers in the Microsoft space is Log Management, which allows the collection, storage and forensic analysis of Windows Event Log data. For those of you familiar… Read More: Quest OnDemand Recovery for AD »
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about using Quest’s ActiveRoles Quick Connect Express for Exchange 2010 Global Address List synchronisation (GAL Sync). Since then I’ve written a step-by-step guide which will hopefully help others who want to use this very useful freeware utility. You can download the guide (pdf format) here: GAL Sync with ActiveRoles Quick… Read More: Quest ActiveRoles Quick Connect Express: GAL Sync Step-by-step Guide »
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: Bulk create sample AD users from CSV file using Powershell »
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: GAL Sync with Quest Quick Connect Express for Active Directory »
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: Powershell script to install Windows Updates from folder »
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: Powershell script to Copy GPO Links »
In a migration scenario it is sometimes useful to have a security and/or distribution Active Directory group in the target domain where the membership is comprised of migrated user objects. Here’s a Powershell 2.0 script that I put together that populates the membership of a group based on a specific sIDHistory value. It can be run… Read More: Powershell script to add group members based on sIDHistory »
The other day I had to uninstall Exchange 2010 from a server with the CAS and Hub Transport roles. It all went well until the point where it was uninstalling the Hub Transport role. The uninstall then ground to a halt with the following error: Log Name: Application Source: MSExchange Configuration Cmdlet – Management Console… Read More: Error when uninstalling Exchange 2010 from server »
Some time ago I blogged about the Acctinfo2.dll tool and how unfortunate it was that a 64-bit version was not available. Well, the good news is that you can now download a 64-bit version from here: Acctinfo2_64bit.zip I have tested the DLL on both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and it seems… Read More: 64-bit Version of Acctinfo2.dll »
You receive the following message when installing Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010: “Setup Wizard for Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB981401) ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified. To install this program at a later time, please run the installation again.” In my case this turned… Read More: Setup Wizard for Update Rollup 3 Ended Prematurely »