How-To – Page 5 – Tech Notes Desk

Install Terraform and Ansible on Google Chromebook Pixel

Post author:admin
Post published:October 8, 2018
Post category:How-To Linux Tools

As may know Google have enabled support for Linux apps on Google Chromebooks. I have the latest [easyazon_link identifier="B075JLPLBL" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] Google Chromebook Pixel [/easyazon_link]which is very nice machine and…

Move all FSMO roles from server to another in Active Directory

Post author:admin
Post published:October 3, 2018
Post category:How-To PowerShell Troubleshooting Windows Server

Here is one liner to move all FSMO roles from one server to another. In most cases an administrator can keep the FSMO role holders (all 5 of them) in…

Update UPN for group of users or all users in domain

Post author:admin
Post published:October 3, 2018
Post category:How-To PowerShell Tools Troubleshooting Uncategorized Windows Server

There can be situation when you will need to update UPN for your users in domain. In my situation this change helped to solve my SAML SSO integrations via OKTA…

HOW TO LIST UPN SUFFIXES OF AN ACTIVE DIRECTORY FOREST

Post author:admin
Post published:September 25, 2018
Post category:How-To PowerShell Tools Troubleshooting Windows Server

The default UPN is contained in the Canonical Name attribute on the Partitions container object in the configuration naming context. The default UPN suffix identifies the domain in which the…

Error: Windows Cannot Find The Microsoft Software License Terms. Make sure the installation sources are valid and restart the installation

Post author:admin
Post published:September 21, 2018
Post category:How-To Troubleshooting Windows Windows Server

You are trying to build your lab on VMware Fusion installed on your Apple Mac Book Pro laptop. You have downloaded latest build [easyazon_link identifier="0134583752" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] Windows Server 2016…

How to Monitor who Deleted DNS Records

Post author:admin
Post published:August 11, 2018
Post category:How-To Troubleshooting Windows Server

It is always good idea to have some sort of monitoring on your [easyazon_link identifier="0134583752" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] servers [/easyazon_link] and be able to retrace steps and find out what happened…

Customize the PowerShell ISE Theme

Post author:admin
Post published:July 5, 2018
Post category:How-To PowerShell Tools

The default theme for the PowerShell ISE is very boring, lets spice it up with a new theme. There is a great repository with PowerShell ISE themes located on GitHub.…

Cannot connect to SQL server – error 1225

Post author:admin
Post published:June 28, 2018
Post category:How-To Troubleshooting Windows Server

My Active Directory auditor suddenly failing and taking up all CPU resources. I have reviewed logs and see that there is issue to connect to [easyazon_link identifier="B01MYVV6T0" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] MSSQL…

Bulk update EmployeeID in Active Directory with PowerShell

Post author:admin
Post published:June 23, 2018
Post category:Command Line How-To PowerShell Tools Troubleshooting Windows Server

Here is a quick [easyazon_link identifier="B01NBI97UZ" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] PowerShell [/easyazon_link] script to run users from csv file where you have 2 columns SamAccountName and EmployeeID. Place the csv file on…

Get Account list with Password Never Expire from Active Directory to CSV file

Post author:admin
Post published:June 21, 2018
Post category:Command Line How-To Tools Troubleshooting Windows Windows Server

Quick [easyazon_link identifier="B01NBI97UZ" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] PowerShell [/easyazon_link] snippet to pull all accounts from [easyazon_link identifier="1449361420" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] Active Directory [/easyazon_link] with PASSWORD NEVER EXPIRE into CSV report file so you…