The IT ecosystem is rich with network monitoring systems (NMS). Each NMS has different capabilities, costs, and purposes in life. It is commonplace for me to come into a business that has invested in an NMS that doesn’t fit all their needs. You might ask, “What does this have to do with creating a Windows service?” [...]
Installing Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 Fails At Mailbox Role: Database is mandatory on UserMailbox.
In a recent incident, an Exchange server had a complete volume failure during testing. Exchange 2010 was reinstalled but when installing Service Pack 1, it failed upgrading the Mailbox Role. Upon reviewing the log, I found the following line: Database is mandatory on UserMailbox. Property Name: Database The error doesn’t explain the problem very well [...]
Exchange 2007+: Aliases have invalid data
Twice in the past two weeks, I have come across Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migrations which went uncompleted. In both cases, I received the following error(s) when trying to view the properties of a recipient with spaces in its alias or when viewing the properties of the offline address book: The properties on have [...]
Powershell: Getting the IP Address, FQDN and MAC Address of Each Domain Controller
I was asked to get a baseline for generating reports within AD. The two important pieces of information which were required to generate these reports were the ip address and FQDN of each domain controller. The script would then connect to each individual system to gather data. While I was at it, I added the [...]
Powershell: Using PoSH to Search Across Multiple Domains in Forest
I was recently asked to get a quick report of all Windows 7 computers within a multi-domain AD forest. After banging my head into the keyboard for a while, I finally figured it out. The script below should do the trick. Also, if you use the OperatingSystemVersion attribute, you will find that Server 2008 R2 [...]
