Ever had to change a domain administrator’s password and had the sinking feeling that some bozo had setup a Windows service to run as that user. If you only have a couple servers it isn’t that big a deal to check each manually, but if you have a lot it can be a problem. […]
After manually setting up email Alarm notifications for numerous vSphere deployments I decided it was time to harness PowerCLI and automate the process. I found numerous examples of people who had already done this before me, so I figured it would be pretty easy. It looks like the guys at VMPros.nl built a script that […]
I had a need to set all members of a group so that their Office 365 (aka Microsoft Online) passwords never expire. Didn’t take too long but I though it was worth sharing. I also added output to show the setting was changed. This could certainly be prettier but it is what it is. Pre-Reqs […]
I’ve written several PowerShell scripts to help customers adjust permissions to their directory structures when migrating from other file servers(Linux/Samba, Novell OES/Netware, etc). Part of these scripts includes assigning ownership for the user. While this tends to take a long time quotas and file reporting are worthless if the administrator that copied everything is assigned […]
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