After an absence of a couple of years, the Wellington Windows Infrastructure User Group has been brought back to life! If you’re in Wellington on Wednesday 4th July, come along and watch me and Daniel Bowbyes presenting on some Windows Server 2012 goodness. http://www.mscommunities.co.nz/Events/Wellington-Windows-Infrastructure-User-Group—Win.aspx
If you’re looking for a Global Address List synchronisation solution for Exchange that simply uses Powershell, look no further than this excellent script from fellow MVP Carol Wapshere. http://www.wapshere.com/missmiis/a-galsync-powershell-script The script doesn’t leverage the DirSync control (and hence doesn’t use deltas), which means that it isn’t perhaps as efficient as some of the full-blown solutions… Read More »
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 »
Sometimes it’s useful to pre-create computer objects in the correct OU before joining them to the domain. This way, you know that they will immediately pick up whatever Group Policies have been assigned to the OU. Of course, you can create the computer objects in AD manually using Active Directory Users and Computers (dsa.msc) or… Read More »
If you’re creating contact objects in Active Directory the Exchange cmdlets New-MailContact, Set-MailContact and Set-Contact are usually sufficient. On the other hand I haven’t found a way using these cmdlets to set all the attributes that I might need. For example, the “description” attribute doesn’t appear to feature anywhere. Things have obviously changed with the… Read More »
I went to install the AD Management Gateway Service (KB968934) on a Domain Controller running Windows Server 2008 SP2 and I received the error shown below. Installer encountered an error: 0x80070422. The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has not enabled devices associated with it. The problem was that… Read More »
There seems to be a certain amount of confusion surrounding Domain and Forest functional levels. Microsoft’s own documentation doesn’t always incorporate the latest version information. KB322692 is a case in point. I also often hear the words “Native” and “Mixed” in relation to functional levels involving Windows Server 2003 or 2008, when in fact these terms… Read More »
The other day I was in an environment where I had to find what Certification Authorities (CAs) were in place. With nobody immediately available to help me out, I stumbled around for bit before I worked out how to find them. Method 1. Query the membership of the Cert Publishers group. Cert Publishers is a… Read More »
I have recently spent some time working with Xpath queries as part of Event Log filtering in Windows Server 2008. It’s a great feature, but one limitation I found was that it doesn’t appear possible to use the starts-with() function when querying Event Logs with either the UI or Wevtutil.exe. Here’s an example. Let’s say… Read More »