Done with: PowerShell 2.0 Visio 2010 Standard/Premium OnTap 7.3/8.0 Download the NetApp Vision Stencils and extract them to your “C:Users<User name>My DocumentsMy Shapes” directory. Then install the NetApp OnTap PS Toolkit from the now.netapp.com site (you will need a customer login although it is free). You will need to import the module by typing “Import-Module…
LDAP over SSL with a CA server
MS AD 2008 Server 2008 CA server (Not a DC) Notes: This way won’t force a connection so it will allow both SSL & non-SSL connections. (Which is what I wanted) Make sure to edit the template before pushing out to the domain controllers to edit how long the certificate is valid for. Fails on…
Disabled Mailboxes not displaying in Disconnected Mailbox area
Exchange 07 Microsoft’s documentation shows that when you “Disable” a mailbox it will automatically be placed in the “Disconnected Mailbox” area. That is usually not the case and the GUI doesn’t provide much assistance on refreshing it. In Exchange 03 we used to run the the Mailbox cleanup agent to show the mailboxes as disconnected….
Exchange Accounts & Microsoft Online accounts
Exchange 2007 Outlook 2010 Ran into an issue where externally we could e-mail this user just fine, internally the user would still get the e-mail although users who sent the e-mail would receive the following NDR: “Diagnostic information for administrators: Generating server: <Exchange server name> IMCEAEX-_O=MicrosoftOnline_ou=Exchange+20Administrative+20Group+20+28FYDIBOHF23SPDLT+29_cn=Recipients_cn=<msExchGUID>@<Company Domain>.com #550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound; not found ##
AD – Adding Indiv Users To An Indiv Group
DNs can be found in AD Explorer. Script: $root=[adsi]”” $rootdn=$root.distinguishedName $group=[adsi](“LDAP://<Group DN>”) $group.add(“LDAP://<User DN>”)
AD – Finding User Attributes
Two ways that I’m aware of in finding this information out. AD Explorer method: Download “AD Explorer” from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907, unzip and run the executable If connecting to the default domain, just make sure the first radio button is selected (Enter a name for an Active Directory database…) and click OK. If not, enter in the…
AD – Add Indiv Users
Attr Used (not in any order): Description displayName homeDirectory homeDrive givenName Mail sAMAccountName sn scriptPath userPrincipalName
AdminSDHolder & Objects inheriting permissions
Possibility to solve the following issues: – Upgraded Exchange/Domain Controller and users constantly getting prompted to enter in credentials – Introduced a BES (BB Enterprise Server) and users not getting e-mail – “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” checkbox constantly gets unchecked. Role of AdminSHHolder:
NetBackup Bug in 7.0
Experienced on Symantec NetBackup 7 on Server 2008 R2 restoring VMs on vSphere 4.1 Discussed and solved here: Symantec Support forum post Issue: Backing up VMs go smooth although testing out restoring a vm (to its original location) after I delete it from disk through vSphere. I kicked off the restore, vSphere did create the…
Create NFS share
Really easy. Tried on Win 7 and Server 2008 Install “Services for NFS” through “Turn Windows features on or off” Open up a command prompt and type the following w/o quotes: mount <SAN DNS Name>:/vol/<volume name> And your done!