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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: VBScript - WMI Ping
http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/2011/04/vbscript-wmi-ping.html
Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Sunday, April 3, 2011. VBScript - WMI Ping. Sometimes it can come in handy to actually check, instead of just assume, that a destination is available before you let your script loose. One method you can use for this is ping. I recently wrote a log on script which pings a server before it attempts to map a network drive. Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts: . root cimv2"). Set objPing = objWMI.Get("Win32 PingStatus.Address='" and address and "'"). If objPing.StatusCode = 0 Then.
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: PowerShell, Active Directory and Expiring Passwords
http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/2011/05/powershell-active-directory-and.html
Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Sunday, May 22, 2011. PowerShell, Active Directory and Expiring Passwords. Have you ever wanted to find out how many days are left until your (or someone else’s) Active Directory user account password expires? This (and just about everything else) can be done using Windows PowerShell. I say used to be simple, because now you have to take FGPP into account. But as it turns out, it’s actually easier now, thanks to the new attribute. PowerShell with the AD cmdlets:. Now if we wra...
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: Shadow Groups in Active Directory
http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/2011/07/shadow-groups-in-active-directory.html
Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Saturday, July 30, 2011. Shadow Groups in Active Directory. Shadow Groups (SG) is an interesting topic. It’s not an actual type of group in the sense of security, distribution, global, domain local or universal, but rather a. A shadow group is a global security group which reflects the users found in a specific organizational unit (OU) in its group membership. Shadow groups can be used for Fine Grained Password Policies, which can be applied to users (or. Dsquery user “. 8221;...
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: March 2011
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Wednesday, March 23, 2011. PowerShell - Enable Exchange 2010 Mailbox from Active Directory. I installed Windows Live Writer the other day, so I figured I’d finally give it a shot. Step one was to load up with four cheese sandwiches, a cup of tea and a script! Earlier today when I pondered what to write about, I was deciding between managing NTFS inheritance with PowerShell or using redircmp to better control new domain computers. This is more like it! We’ll start out by ...
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: May 2011
http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html
Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Sunday, May 22, 2011. PowerShell, Active Directory and Expiring Passwords. Have you ever wanted to find out how many days are left until your (or someone else’s) Active Directory user account password expires? This (and just about everything else) can be done using Windows PowerShell. I say used to be simple, because now you have to take FGPP into account. But as it turns out, it’s actually easier now, thanks to the new attribute. PowerShell with the AD cmdlets:. Now if we wra...
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: August 2013
http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/2013_08_01_archive.html
Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Thursday, August 22, 2013. Install Windows Updates using a PowerShell script. Or: How I stopped worrying and learned to live with Automatic Maintenance. As many of you may already know Windows Server 2012 does not play nice with WSUS/Windows Update. It will accept the download and notify. Or the download and schedule. Settings, but that's about where it ends. In other words, it will not honor the Windows Update schedule settings. I'm putting this script up here as-is and leave...
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: April 2011
http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Sunday, April 3, 2011. VBScript - WMI Ping. Sometimes it can come in handy to actually check, instead of just assume, that a destination is available before you let your script loose. One method you can use for this is ping. I recently wrote a log on script which pings a server before it attempts to map a network drive. Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts: . root cimv2"). Set objPing = objWMI.Get("Win32 PingStatus.Address='" and address and "'"). If objPing.StatusCode = 0 Then.
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: PowerShell - Enable Exchange 2010 Mailbox from Active Directory
http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/2011/03/powershell-enable-exchange-2010-mailbox.html
Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Wednesday, March 23, 2011. PowerShell - Enable Exchange 2010 Mailbox from Active Directory. I installed Windows Live Writer the other day, so I figured I’d finally give it a shot. Step one was to load up with four cheese sandwiches, a cup of tea and a script! Earlier today when I pondered what to write about, I was deciding between managing NTFS inheritance with PowerShell or using redircmp to better control new domain computers. This is more like it! We’ll start out by ...
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Andreas - Talk nerdy to me: July 2011
http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html
Andreas - Talk nerdy to me. Saturday, July 30, 2011. Shadow Groups in Active Directory. Shadow Groups (SG) is an interesting topic. It’s not an actual type of group in the sense of security, distribution, global, domain local or universal, but rather a. A shadow group is a global security group which reflects the users found in a specific organizational unit (OU) in its group membership. Shadow groups can be used for Fine Grained Password Policies, which can be applied to users (or. Dsquery user “. 8221;...
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