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Month: June 2011

Windows 2008/R2 “Windows could not prepare the partition…”

June 21, 2011 adminalley

Server 2008 and/or R2 On the Windows 2008 disk partition install, I get the error “Windows could not prepare the partition selected for installation”. Boot

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Upgrading Distribution groups from Exch 03/07 to 10

June 6, 2011 adminalley

EMS 2010 commands: Get-DistributionGroup –ID “DistributionGroupName” | Set-DistributionGroup –ForceUpdate To “upgrade” all Distribution Groups within an Organization, the following command will do the trick: Get-DistributionGroup

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Find rogue snapshots within VMware

June 4, 2011 adminalley

Requirements: – VMware vSphere PowerCLI – VMware Virtual Center 4.0 + Command: Connect-VIServer <virtual center name or IP>

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Adding multiple users to AD from CSV

June 4, 2011 adminalley

Download script here Requirements: – Powershell 2.0 – CSV file Attributes Used: FirstName LastName City Department Job Title Logon Name Password Description E-Mail Script (Logon

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Sending an E-mail blast from a CSV with an attachment

June 4, 2011 adminalley

Download script here Required: – Powershell 2.0 – CSV file with the first 3 cell names dictated by what you put in $emailaddress, $fileLocation, &

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Exch Session Import to PS

June 4, 2011 adminalley

Using a machine without Exchange Management Tools Requirements: – Powershell 2.0 – Access to your Exchange Server Launch Powershell and run:

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Welcome to AdminAlley.com. This site was created in hopes that I would be able to record the solutions I’ve come across to various issues and that hopefully, others would be able to benefit from my mishaps. If you have any suggestions, questions or maybe I’ve mistyped some info, please let me know!

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