After this weekend’s latest Ransomware attack here is a quick way to find all those “Windows XP” machines still running in your environment. What is WanaCry ? This malware exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system that allows it to automatically spread across networks, which gives it the ability to quickly infect large numbers…
Leave a CommentCreate Exchange 2016 DAG using PowerShell What is a Database Availability Group (DAG) ? A database availability group (DAG) is a set of up to 16 Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox servers that provide automatic database-level recovery from a database, server, or network failure. When a Mailbox server is added to a DAG, it works…
Leave a CommentThis guide will show you how to add additional Subnets into Active Directory Sites and Services using GUI as well as Powershell. Let’s start by adding the following Subnet into Sites and Services using GUI. Subnet : 192.168.56.0/24 and 192.168.57.0/24 Launch Active Directory Site and Services and Navigate to Subnets. Right click on “Subnets” and…
2 CommentsOverview of The Exchange 2016 Transport pipeline services: Front End Transport service on Mailbox servers This service acts as a stateless proxy for all inbound and (optionally) outbound external SMTP traffic for the Exchange 2016 organization. The Front End Transport service doesn’t inspect message content, doesn’t communicate with the Mailbox Transport service, and doesn’t queue any…
Leave a CommentView Default Exchange 2016 message throttling settings Message throttling refers to a group of limits that are set on the number of messages and connections that can be processed by an Exchange server. These limits include message processing rates, SMTP connection rates, and SMTP session timeout values. These limits work together to protect an Exchange server…
Leave a CommentSearch for Disabled Users and Move to Disabled Ou using PowerShell Created this script to search a ‘OU’ for disabled users and move them to a different ou . I have added the ‘WhatIf’ option by default . Once you run the script it will prompt for ‘Search OU’ and ‘Target OU’ .
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#Created to ease some of my daily tasks #web: http://thatlazyadmin.com #Twitter: shaun.hardneck |
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Import-Module ActiveDirectory |
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[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.VisualBasic') |
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Leave a CommentBulk add users to Distribution Group I was ask recently to simplify a task for support staff to bulk add users to a distribution group. So i created the following script to add user from csv. The script will ‘prompt’ for ‘Distribution Group’ name and will add users accordingly. The script has the ‘WhatIf’ added…
1 CommentBulk export Mailbox to .PST using PowerShell I recently received a request to bulk export mailboxes to .pst , to help mysef i have created this small script to import from csv and then kick off the export request. file can be downloaded Here Code:
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#Created By: Shaun Hardneck #http://thatlazyadmin.com #Freebies :) Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn; Import-Csv 'C:\Softlib\Users.csv' | ForEach{ try { #Get-Mailbox -Identity $_.name | New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $_.name -FilePath "\\auh2fs02\PST\$_.name.pst" -ErrorAction stop } catch [system.exception] { Write-Host "$_.name" -ForegroundColor Red } Finally { }} |
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2 CommentsTo Prepare for Office 365 Migration you need to add the missing ‘UPN Suffixes’. The following example demonstrates how to create a new UPN suffix for the users in the ThatLazyAdmin forest: Lets Start by running:
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Import-Module ActiveDirectory</span> |
Then run :
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Get-AdForest | Set-ADForest -UPNSuffixes @{Add="ThatLazyAdmin.com"}</span> |
Lets verify the new UPN in Active Directory Users and Computers There…
Leave a CommentSet Exhange 2010 /2013 OWA ‘LogonFormat’ using PowerShell Quick look at the curent setting using the ‘GUI’. Exchange Admin Center – Servers – Virtual Directory select OWA virtual directory. Now lets change the LogonFormat to ‘User name only’ using PowerShell
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Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -LogonFormat 'UserName' -DefaultDomain 'ThatLazyAdmin.local' -Identity 'LazyEX-01\owa (Default Web Site)' |
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Leave a CommentTo quickly get all ‘Failed Move-Requests’ you can run the following one liner.
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Get-MoveRequest | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "failed"} |
To Remove all ‘Failed Move-Requests’ you can run the following:
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Get-MoveRequest | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "failed"} | Remove-MoveRequest |
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Leave a CommentExpress installation of Azure AD Connect Tool Can be downloaded from Here Sign in as a local administrator to the server you wish to install Azure AD Connect on. You should do this on the server you wish to be the sync server. Navigate to and double-click AzureADConnect.msi. On the Welcome screen, select the box agreeing…
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