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HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2013.02.0 update broke NIC teams, VLANs using tagging

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Robert Blissitt

Networking was lost after updating HP’s Service Pack for ProLiant on two cluster nodes.  The servers were both BL460c G6 blades with two NICs that had first been teamed, then split back into two network connections using VLAN tagging.  (Multiple … Continue reading →

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SQL Server PowerShell Module (SQLPS)

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Tommy Doan

SQL Server provides a Windows PowerShell module called sqlps that is used to import the SQL Server components into Windows PowerShell. The sqlps module loads two Windows PowerShell modules: A SQL Server provider, which enables a simple navigation mechanism similar … Continue reading →

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ActiveDirectory module and UAC

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Tommy Doan

I have noticed a few odd behaviors with PowerShell’s ActiveDirectory module, one regarding the msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed attribute of the Get-ADUser cmdlet, and another regarding the New-ADServiceAccount cmdlet. On a brand new Server 2008 R2 domain, the following command returns values for … Continue reading →

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2003 R2 Windows Update fails with Error Number 0x80072EE2

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Robert Blissitt

After installing Windows Server 2003 R2 in a VM for some quick testing, I installed SP2, rebooted, then went to Windows Update to download an expected multitude of Windows patches.  However, Windows Update failed repeatedly with “Error Number 0x80072EE2″ displayed … Continue reading →

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The previous installation path could not be found in the registry

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Robert Blissitt

I recently upgraded (or tried to upgrade) an Exchange 2010 SP1 + Rollup 6 server to SP2 + Rollup 1 in our test lab.  (I had copied the Rollup 1 installation to the Updates folder within the SP2 installation point … Continue reading →

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Look for orphaned Active Directory home directories

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Tommy Doan

This PowerShell script will iterate through all home directory folders in our Windows file share server and search Active Directory for a homeDirectory path value that ends with that folder name (it actually looks for *\<folderName> so it will only … Continue reading →

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Detecting disconnected Exchange mailboxes

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Tommy Doan

Here’s how to detect Active Directory accounts that had an Exchange 2010 SP1 mailbox at one time, but the mailbox has since been disconnected, aka disabled. Essentially find all accounts where a msExchWhenMailboxCreated value exists and a homeMDB value does not … Continue reading →

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LDAP requests to Active Directory, Mac Lion, and DFS fail when domain name points to web servers

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Robert Blissitt

We set up ldap.domain.com (ports 389 and 636) on our hardware load balancer, forwarding the LDAP requests on to our Active Directory domain controllers.  It works just fine for most of our applications.  We did find that it failed with … Continue reading →

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Create delivery reports from Message Tracking Log in Exchange 2010

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Robert Blissitt

By default, Exchange 2010 keeps 30 days of Message Tracking logs.  These logs are typically used for troubleshooting delivery problems, but you can generate delivery reports from them as well.  The following Powershell command returned all emails sent to the … Continue reading →

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