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Enable Remote Desktop Using PowerShell

Enable Remote Desktop Using PowerShell

Published by lazy-admin on Apr 26, 2017

Enable Remote Desktop Using PowerShell Open an elevated Windows PowerShell session and run the following commands. This first one creates the fDenyTSConnections value and sets it to 0 (off). This makes sense, because we don’t want to deny Terminal Services (TS) connections.

Set Network Level Authentication for Remote Desktop

Setting Firewall Rules :…

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A Transport database operation has encountered a fatal error. The Transport service is shutting down.

A Transport database operation has encountered a fatal error. The Transport service is shutting down.

Published by lazy-admin on Apr 24, 2017

A Transport database operation has encountered a fatal error. The Transport service is shutting down. Exchange Transport Service Keeps shutting down. To resolve this issue you can simple recreate the Transport Queue Database on the needed Exchange server. To delete the specified database and corresponding transaction logs, follow these steps: Verify that the Microsoft Exchange…

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Exchange 2010 Mail User still Associated with a Move Request
Exchange 2010 MessageTrackingLog: Failed to write log..Error Access Denied

Exchange 2010 MessageTrackingLog: Failed to write log..Error Access Denied

Published by lazy-admin on Apr 17, 2017

Exchange 2010 MessageTrackingLog: Error Access Denied Message Tracking in Exchange 2010 Stopped and you received the following Error in EventViewer. “MessageTrackingLogs: Failed to write logs because of the error: Access to the path ‘MSGTRK20170329-8.LOG’ is denied..” Let’s Start by reviewing the Current configuration for Message Tracking.

Now that you have your current configuration lets…

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Deploy Active Directory Domain Using PowerShell

Deploy Active Directory Domain Using PowerShell

Published by lazy-admin on Apr 16, 2017

Deploy Active Directory  Domain using PowerShell Let’s start by Setting the PowerShell Execution Policy to Unrestricted

Next we will rename the server and install Prereq features.

After the script has run successfully the sever will restart , once restarted launch the #PowerShell Console again and run the second script. This will install all…

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End of support for DirSync and Azure AD Sync . Time to upgrade to Azure AD Connect!

End of support for DirSync and Azure AD Sync . Time to upgrade to Azure AD Connect!

Published by lazy-admin on Apr 12, 2017

On April 13 of last year, Microsoft announced the deprecation of “Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync)” and “Azure Active Directory Sync (Azure AD Sync)” and that it was time to start planning to upgrade to Azure AD Connect. They have also announced that end of Support for DirSync & AzureAD Sync will be on…

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The-Term ‘Clean-Mailboxdatabase’ is not a recognized cmdlet,function, script Exchange 2013

The-Term ‘Clean-Mailboxdatabase’ is not a recognized cmdlet,function, script Exchange 2013

Published by lazy-admin on Apr 3, 2017

Clean MailboxDatabase Command no longer Valid on #Exchange 2013

Command has  been decommissioned for Exchange 2013 and replaced with Update-StoreMailboxState http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj860462(v=exchg.150).aspx Update-StoreMailboxState require the GUID of a mailbox to execute so it usually easier to run in combination with Get-MailboxStatistics like the example below Get-MailboxStatistics -Database MDB02 | ForEach { Update-StoreMailboxState -Database $_.Database -Identity $_.MailboxGuid…

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Rename Server using #Powershell

Rename Server using #Powershell

Published by lazy-admin on Mar 28, 2017

Rename Windows Server Name using #PowerShell Being in the #LazyAdminMode lets rename our server using #PowerShell Lets start by opening  #PowerShell  and type

and that is it 🙂 quick and easy #LoveIt Next lets restart the Server using #PowerShell  to apply the new name by typing

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Windows Domain Join using #PowerShell

Windows Domain Join using #PowerShell

Published by lazy-admin on Mar 28, 2017

Here is a quick How-To Join a “Windows Server 2012” to Windows Domain using #PowerShell Lets start by launching #PowerShell and Type

2. Next we are prompted for valid credentials to Join the Server to the domain. 3.  After Adding the credentials you will be prompted with a Warning Message saying you need to…

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Windows SysInternals

Windows SysInternals

Published by lazy-admin on Mar 26, 2017

Windows SysInternals for Nano Server Introduction The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault.

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Microsoft Exchange RBAC Manager

Microsoft Exchange RBAC Manager

Published by lazy-admin on Mar 26, 2017

RBAC Manager for Exchange and Office 365 RBAC Manager puts all efforts to simplify the RBAC administration. Basically it provides the missing GUI to edit RBAC settings on Exchange 2010,2013 and Office 365 systems; including adding/removing cmdlets, cmdlet properties, assignments etc. RBAC tool is written in C# and using Powershell behind the scenes For Release…

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How to Delete a User Profile from Server 2008 Terminal Server

How to Delete a User Profile from Server 2008 Terminal Server

Published by lazy-admin on Mar 26, 2017

Introduction DISCLAIMER: Editing\Deleting registry keys is very dangerous and should always be done with caution. Before making any changes to the registry please create backups and move them off the server from which you will be making registry changes. Steps (11 total) 1 Identify the SID of the user whose profile needs to be deleted.…

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