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Problem: Emails to a particular domain were not going through. Emails to all other domains were being received fine. dcswa-ex01 = Edge Trans...

You can use the Start-EdgeSynchronization cmdlet to force synchronization to start immediately. You may want to do this to start initial rep...

The config below sets up Auto QOS (Quality of Service) on a Cisco Switch. Single interface Conf t Int fa0/1 Auto-qos voip trust End Write me...

Below is a basic ADSL for Cisco routers with ADSL chip sets installed. This config if for a PPPoE based connection. I set this config up t...

I had an issue where wsus on a Windows SBS 2008 system was saying it was synchronizing successfully, but it wasn't downloading updates. ...

I had a HP ML350 G6 server that was unable to complete the SBS 2008 install. Everytime it would hang forever at the Completing Installation ...

The following script lists all users in an organisational unit: Set objDictionary = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary") Set objOU...

Today I was browsing technet and I found a link to a youtube video on how to setup Windows 7 to act as a PPTP VPN server for a home solution...

Forefront Client Security (FCS) Server Components are not supported on all operating systems. The Management Server must be setup on one of ...

Today I stumbled across a new trojan/password stealer that installs itself through Sun Microsystems Java. Users receive an email such as: Am...

To simply grab the MD5 or SHA1 hash of a file in windows use the Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) Utility. Download this t...

To deploy .NET Framework 4 to your network you must use a startup script. No longer can you push .NET Framework out via an MSI file as with ...

Answer: Yes One of the gotchas before an RODC will advertise as a GC in your domain is that domainprep needs to be run in each domain, regar...

What are inetOrgPerson objects? Windows Server 2003 Active Directory includes a new object type (that is, object class), inetOrg-Person, whi...

ADMX Central Store is a centralized location of keeping new XML-based administrative template (ADMX) files. In a Windows Server 2008 network...

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 supports DFS-R for replicating the SYSVOL partition between domain controllers. For this to w...

Today I had an issue escalated to me where the following Exchange 2003 services would not start due to problems speaking with Active Directo...

I had the following problem on a client's server: Event Type: Error Event Source: WinMgmt Event Category: None Event ID: 27 Date: 1/11/2...

Syncing user attributes cross forest. I wrote a script that can be used to sync user attributes cross forest. Run this script in the destina...

How to set an AD Attribute using LDAP in VBScript. In this instance I'm setting the mail attribute. Const ADS_PROPERTY_UPDATE = 2 Set ob...

Below is a VBScript I wrote that lists all users by the distinguishedname attribute across a forest trust. If you search through all users u...

How to find locked out accounts using VBScript and LDAP: Const ADS_UF_LOCKOUT = 16 ldapFilter = "(&(sAMAccountType=805306368)(locko...

I came across a website by ActiveXperts with lots of script examples of modifying user attributes via LDAP and VBScript. Please check it ou...

The following powershell script lists all users in an active directory domain. $strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=User))" $objDom...

I went to move a mailbox database to another node by using "Move Active Mailbox Database" from Exchange Management Console or Move...

When dealing with Exchange 2010 and legacy exchange servers such as 2003 or 2007, Exchange 2010 CAS servers will either redirect or proxy th...

I had a client where autodiscover was working fine internally however external clients could not perform autodiscover requests. The client i...

I was getting an error on my Windows XP workstations: Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1058 Date: 22/0...

In this blog post I'm going to show you how to mass deploy .NET Framework 4 to all PC's in your Active Directory domain. EDIT: THIS ...

To find the wireless channels in windows open a command prompt and run the following commands: netsh wlan show all scroll down...