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(re)Setting rights on user home folders [batch script]

Posted on 2018 April 26 @ 03:04:51 by admin

After some troubles with copied user home folders during a migration, the rights were set incorrectly. As this was about more than just a handful of users, re-setting the rights manually wasn’t a good idea. After digging around on the … Continue reading →

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Adobe Reader DC, Remove side tools panel by default

Posted on 2017 November 03 @ 10:11:35 by admin

After digging around, there seems to be a solution to remove that side panel that takes up screen space, every time you  start Adobe Reader DC. [you have to have admin rights to do this] Go to the install directory … Continue reading →

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Configure SSL on an HP Aruba 2530-48G-PoEP Switch (J9772A)

Posted on 2017 November 02 @ 11:11:26 by admin

Log in admin using ssh (with your favourite ssh client) or (serial) console cable. config crypto pki identity-profile Profile subject Now enter some certificate parameters You can enter all you like, e.g. Enter Common Name(CN) : Switch Enter Org Unit(OU) … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2016 Have a receive connector relay outside the domain.

Posted on 2017 October 25 @ 11:10:58 by admin

There’s a powershell cmd for that: New-ReceiveConnector -Name “Anonymous Relay” -Usage Custom -AuthMechanism ExternalAuthoritative -PermissionGroups ExchangeServers -Bindings x.x.x.x:25 -RemoteIpRanges x.x.x.x (or create a receive connector with the right settings) And then Get-ReceiveConnector “Anonymous Relay” | Add-ADPermission -User “NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON” -ExtendedRights … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2016 Restart Transport Service powershell

Posted on 2017 October 25 @ 11:10:24 by admin

Ran into this earlier today, had to restart the Exchange 2016 transport service using powershell only! It turned out to be easy. Restart-Service MSExchangeTransport To list all Exchange services: Get-Service *Exchange*

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User folder displayed as “Documents”: Remove desktop.ini

Posted on 2017 October 12 @ 03:10:15 by admin

A users’ folder is displayed as “Documents” and you don’t want that. To e.g. remove desktop.ini files (which are hidden: use -force): Get-ChildItem “\\SERVER\d$\Users\Userdata\” -recurse -filter desktop.ini -force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force} This deletes all the desktop.ini files … Continue reading →

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Sonicwall OID’s

Posted on 2017 September 13 @ 11:09:10 by admin

For internal purposes I had to monitor some snmp facts of a sonicwall. Here’s the OID list Sonicwall CPU usage as percent .1.3.6.1.4.1.8741.1.3.1.3.0 Sonicwall Memory usage as percent .1.3.6.1.4.1.8741.1.3.1.4.0 Sonicwall Maximum Connections .1.3.6.1.4.1.8741.1.3.1.1.0 Sonicwall Current Connections .1.3.6.1.4.1.8741.1.3.1.2.0 Sonicwall Firmware version: … Continue reading →

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Get all different types of mailboxes in Exchange 2010 and 2016

Posted on 2017 August 31 @ 11:08:19 by admin

I had to get the amount of the different types of mailboxes that are available in Exchange. Exchange 2010 and 2016 in this case. As I had to execute this as a script I ran into the problem that you … Continue reading →

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Get a list of all computers in Active Directory with date lastlogon and OS

Posted on 2017 August 31 @ 10:08:26 by admin

I needed to list all computers in use at customers, with os, and for the less diligently maintained AD’s also if they were still in use. You can obtain this by reading the value of lastlogondate of a machine account. … Continue reading →

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Active Directory Powershell get [the count of] all enabled users in a certain OU [but not in sub OU’s]

Posted on 2017 August 30 @ 02:08:03 by admin

For our internal use, I devised a powershell command that lists all enabled users in a certain OU, but filtering out those in sub OU’s. Unfortunately this is not a dynamic process, since it is based on the current implementation of OU’s, … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2016 and SMTP speed

Posted on 2017 February 07 @ 11:02:52 by admin

In order to have Exchange SMTP speed up a little you can change some default values. Some of those values can be found here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232205(v=exchg.160).aspx So if you want to change some of those value, to accept more mail at … Continue reading →

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Block active ssh login attempts from unknown IP’s on linux using hosts.deny

Posted on 2017 January 19 @ 01:01:15 by admin

Some hosts on the net are severely compromised or shown to be controlled by malicious  users. imho: Never allow a root login using ssh to any machine you are setting up. Yes ~they~ are always probing. It is a storm. … Continue reading →

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Shutting down windows domain clients remotely

Posted on 2017 January 01 @ 11:01:25 by admin

I was not in the office, but I did have to shut down all domain computers after a move to have them install windows updates over the long new-year weekend. So I ended up with a script I picked up … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2016, receive connector, enable relaying, powershell

Posted on 2016 December 28 @ 04:12:54 by admin

In order to have a certain receive connector to be able to relay (other than local delivery: actually route the mail to the outside) perform the following powershell command: Set-ReceiveConnector “SERVER\Receive Connector” -PermissionGroups AnonymousUsers Above command enables “Anyonymous user” delivery. … Continue reading →

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Checking HP disk status on VMware, command line

Posted on 2016 December 28 @ 11:12:39 by admin

Today, I had to check the disk status of an HP array on VMware Using VMware 6, installed with HP iso, meaning it has HP drivers and tools already installed on VMware, I found it is rather easy to use … Continue reading →

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Powershell, get full names of a group of users in AD and export to text file.

Posted on 2016 December 23 @ 11:12:45 by admin

Just a quick blurb that I encountered this morning. In powershell, to get a list of the full names of users and export them to a text file: Get-ADGroupMember -identity GROUP -Recursive | Get-ADUser -Property DisplayName | Select Name > c:\temp\fullnamesofgroup.txt … Continue reading →

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Place chrome link on desktop, and open with chrome browser

Posted on 2016 December 14 @ 08:12:30 by admin

Everyone on windows has a ‘default browser’ set. Windows knows this. In case you want to run Google Chrome and open an url, (and not your other default browser), well, then just create a good old shortcut (windows .lnk file) … Continue reading →

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Change Google Chrome homepage setting, but then scripted

Posted on 2016 December 14 @ 08:12:04 by admin

In order to change the homepage of the Google Chrome browser, installed on a win7 pc, you can change the homepage, e.g. via login script. (see e.g. http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory for chrome info) Of course you can load adm files in your … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer Trusted Sites and Automatic User Logon Registry (ADFS/SSO)

Posted on 2016 December 07 @ 12:12:01 by admin

You can’t use GPO if you want your users themselves to be able to add sites to Trusted Sites in Internet Explorer. You can use good old registry though. Since these are user settings, the user can edit their own … Continue reading →

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HP Device Manager installation

Posted on 2016 October 05 @ 03:10:22 by admin

Here’s a quick blurb from todays’ afternoon, quickly testing HP Device Manager in my lan here. (Edit: the sofware that you can use to manage HP Thin/Zero Clients) (On Win2008 R2, will try server 2012 soon) Install .NET 4.5 Install … Continue reading →

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Remove .NET Framework because of Mamut software

Posted on 2016 July 29 @ 12:07:10 by admin

On a completely updated Windows7 workstation you may have .Net Framework 4.6. This sometimes doesn’t work with particular (older) version of Mamut Business Software. In order to fix this, remove all updates for .NET framework from Windows Updates. Then go … Continue reading →

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VMware 5.5, HP P2000, Datastores, iSCSI, ATS, VAAI and whatnot

Posted on 2016 June 08 @ 03:06:20 by admin

Brilliant, the customer got a freshly installed Gen9 HP host with 112Gb mem. My collegue installed it with VMware and seems to work fine. But not for the datastores it is supposed to work with. I  wanted to add the … Continue reading →

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WDS and a Dell 5570 adding drivers to WIM image.

Posted on 2016 May 31 @ 04:05:23 by admin

Today I am creating an image for a Dell E5570 laptop over at a customer. The image that I use has all the applications installed and working. However, the image is meant for other computers that don’t have the same … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi3 installation and configure wlan/wifi (raspbian)

Posted on 2016 May 16 @ 02:05:11 by admin

Today I’m setting up the raspi3 that I recently got from the pihut. https://thepihut.com/ The pi3 has wifi built in (2.4Ghz only). I use linux now, so in order to set it up with raspbian I performed the following steps. … Continue reading →

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VMWare virtualise a Windows 2008R2 server with P2V

Posted on 2016 April 28 @ 03:04:56 by admin

I am being in the process of virtualising a Windows 2008 R2 server with P2V. That is, from HP hardware to VMWare. Since this is a hardware HP machine, I have made the following considerations using P2V. Before virtualising: – Make sure … Continue reading →

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