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Category Archives: Windows
Inventorying what extensionAttributes are used in your Active Directory Environment
Recently we my team was asked what extensionAttributes were in use in my company’s Active Directory environment so I wrote this quick PowerShell script to search for any filled in extensionAttribute and compile a list of that objects Then compile … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Exchange, PowerShell
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Make sure your Exchange 2003 server is fully removed before raising your AD Domain Functional Level
Though we completed our Exchange 2010 migration over a year ago we still kept our Exchange 2003 server around due to some hard-coded references in internally developed apps. Once those were taken care of we shutdown our Exchange 2003 server for a … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010, W2K8R2
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How to quickly disable account access in AD and Exchange 2010
While testing the feasibility of a Bring Your Own Device policy with Exchange 2010 Active Sync we noticed some odd behavior with disabled accounts. One of the policies we decided on was that during an employee termination we would disable … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Exchange 2010, Windows
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How moving your Default Domain Policy from the default location can lead to trouble
At my company we recently decided to change our password policy by increasing the password age to a year but doubling the length. So we planned to change the password age via Group Policy so that everyone would have to … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows
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How to force OSX using Active Directory authentication to un-cache a mobile account’s username when it is changed in Active Directory
One of the situations we deal with a lot at my company is name changes due to marriages/domestic partnerships. Recently we had to perform a name change for one of our Mac users. This entails changing the following in Active … Continue reading
Moving large VMDK’s from one Windows File Server to another in vSphere 4.X while maintaining share information
Moving large VMDK’s from one Windows File Server to another in vSphere 4.X At my Job we are nearing the end of our W2k8R2 upgrades. The only W2k3 servers left are our file servers. In planning to upgrade these W2k3 … Continue reading
Posted in File Shares, VMware, W2K8R2, Windows
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How come certain fonts show up fine in OSX but not in Windows?
Our company recently decided on a font called Sketch Block to use for all our client presentations. The font was an available as an OpenType from www.fontspring.com and TrueType from www.myfonts.com. Both versions contained a Bold and Lite version of … Continue reading
Posted in Fonts, OSX, Windows
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