This blog will detail how I created an Active Directory (AD) user provisioning tool with PowerShell.  It probably won’t be what you expect; the amount of front end entry is almost non-existent. The key to consistency within your enterprise is to take as much of the human element out of the picture as possible.  Without proper edit and ...

With the advent of Read Only Domain Controllers (RODC) remote offices no longer have to present a risk for your Active Directory (AD) enterprise secrets.  RODC's by default do not cache ANY user or computer passwords.  This can present a problem if there is a loss of connectivity between the remote site's RODC and a Read Write ...

During preparation to TEC sessions and during TEC I noted some topics to blog about in a future so I hope that I will find time to blog about them soon. I noted also some URLs to tools which are out there so today’s post is some kind of web press release. Patch management. If you have ever wondered how to deploy updates maybe You will get ...

Exchange 2007 support in ILM 2007 has some tough history behind it. Lets not talk about painful past :). Even that this configuration (ILM and Exchange 2007) was available since Rollup 4 package with some fixes in Rollup 5 it wasn’t perfect. In some scenarios it still failed with MA export error caused by simple fact that update-recipient cmdlet ...

One of the cool cmdlets that was added is Get-QADMemberOf. I am excited to get playing with these. More info can be found on Dmitry’s blog here. You can download them here.

David Muegge has a great set of blog posts going related to using Log Parser with PowerShell. Check them out with the links below. http://muegge.com/blog/?p=62 (Log Parser and PowerShell – Part I) http://muegge.com/blog/?p=65 (Log Parser and PowerShell – Part II)

This is a pretty cool one liner that is of tremendous help. You can get the serial number of most PCs via PowerShell remotely. This includes Dell service tags. Command: Get-WMIObject -Class ''Win32_BIOS'' -Computer computername | select SerialNumber   Example: Get-WMIObject –Class ...

Recently, while doing a migration between Exchange 2007 servers, I needed to find out the size of the mailboxes so I could distribute the transfer load to off hours. PowerShell to the rescue. There is a lot to this one liner, but you can customize it for your use. Get-Content "c:\data\users-to-move.txt" ...

I wanted to see what additional PowerShell cmdlet’s I had installed on my computer. I found out that get-pssnapin does the job! Just run the following in your PowerShell window: get-pssnapin –registered You should get an out put like this: PS C:\tools> get-pssnapin –registered Name        : ...

I've decided to give a try to new  Live Writer and blog about ILM\IIFP and Exchange 2007 support. One of common ILM\IIFP usage scenario is GAL synchronization between different forests. This is pre-configured MA delivered with ILM and IIFP which allows to synchronize contacts between Exchange 5.5/2000/2003. Unfortuantelly this solution ...