Author Archives: nerenther

January 16, 2013
10:17
by: nerenther

Exchange: Content index state failed

If you ever had problems with corrupt databases in an Exchange 2010 DAG setup you might have encountered this error. Trying to activate the database on a server where it has this state will fail. However there is a quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange, Microsoft, Powershell Tagged , , ,

January 16, 2013
10:07
by: nerenther

Exchange: Activate Database Copy fails

After some exchange services failed on one of the nodes in our Exchange 2010 DAG we got some problems with one database. The database was mounted on server2 where it has an activation preference of 2. Trying to manually activate the … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange, Microsoft Tagged , , , ,

November 20, 2012
10:25
by: nerenther

Powershell: Checking multiple dns records for multiple domains

I don’t know how useful this will be for others, but in our case we had a need to check a few public dns records on some of our domains. Doing so by using a web portal will be time … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, Powershell Tagged , ,

October 4, 2012
14:07
by: nerenther

Powershell function for enabling a user for Lync and configure settings

A little while ago I posted a script for enabling users for Lync and settings some settings for that user. That script has been used here ever since I posted it and it has worked like a charm. However there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Lync, Microsoft, Powershell Tagged , , , , , , ,

October 3, 2012
07:46
by: nerenther

HP ACU cli quick guide

Guess what? It’s time for something different than powershell I finally got myself a server to play around with Hyper-V on. This has been sorely missed for a long time. I worked a lot with Hyper-V in my previous job, … Continue reading →

Posted in ACU, HP Tagged , , , , ,

September 18, 2012
10:13
by: nerenther

SuperOffice and Citrix

I’m just gonna start by putting this out there: I have never been a fan of SuperOffice, and I probably never will be either. Now that thats out there, heres the situation: We have one citrix farm, and three different … Continue reading →

Posted in SuperOffice Tagged , , ,

September 13, 2012
14:02
by: nerenther

Powershell function for gathering users in groups

A friend of mine asked me a couple of days ago if I knew a way to gather users who are members of given groups. I thought to myself “Hmm, challenge accepted!” and started writing a small powershell script. After … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Directory, Microsoft, Powershell Tagged , , ,

September 12, 2012
13:06
by: nerenther

Motivational Powershell function

If you are ever in need of some motivation, here is a very simple Powershell function for that: function Motivate-Me { $motivator = Get-Random -Minimum 1 -Maximum 5 if ($motivator -eq 1) {Write-Host “You are a Powershell God!”} if ($motivator … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, Powershell Tagged , ,

September 12, 2012
11:32
by: nerenther

Powershell function for showing some system information

This is a function I created just because I wanted to toy around with Powershell and get-wmiobject. Also, this is my first function where I made it possible to use a switch parameter. What the function does is gather some … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, Powershell Tagged , , , , , ,

September 10, 2012
15:57
by: nerenther

Adding a pause to you Powershell scripts

If you have taken a look at some of the scripts I have posted earlier you might have noticed a rather strange line, usually at the end of the script: cmd /c pause | out-null This was actually just to … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, Powershell Tagged ,