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Powershell function for rotating event logs
A friend of mine came to me with an interesting powershell challenge today: how can I use powershell to archive and clear event logs? Well, challenge accepted! The reason the challenge arose is due to maintenance he performs on a … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged event logs, function, microsoft, Powershell, rotate-eventlogs
“The given Key was not present in the dictionary” error when running Group Policy Modeling
I ran into a rather strange error today when trying to run Group Policy Modeling on a user. Instead of showing me Summary and Settings I received an error stating that The given Key was not present in the dictionary. At … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Microsoft
Tagged active directory, group policy, microsoft, preference, registry
Cisco escape sequence
I better write this down before I forget it again: ctrl+shift+6 x If this makes absolutely no sense to you I will explain: When you run commands like traceroute, ping and others within Cisco IOS you can abort them. But … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, Network
Tagged cisco, escape sequence
Function for locating an email address
Yesterday I was given a relatively easy task: find out who or what has a given email address. As this was within our own Exchange organization it proved to be quite simple: You can achieve the goal with a simple … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange, Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged Exchange, function, Get-EmailAddress, Powershell
Function for adding photo in Active Directory
I have always been careful to avoid the really advanced and cool stuff in Powershell, like functions, arrays and such. But as I created the last script it hit me that it would be really cool to have it in … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged function, microsoft, Powershell, Set-ADPhoto
Simple script for adding user photo in Active Directory
It’s been a while since I posted here so I thought it might be time to add some content. This script is a simple script that adds a photo to a user’s active directory user object. It also checks the … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged active directory, Powershell, script
Check if DAG databases is on preferred server
If you are using DAG in exchange 2010 for high availability on your mailboxes there may be one thing you might have noticed, the databases can fail over to a less preferred server at any time without you noticing. Microsoft … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange, Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged DAG, Exchange, microsoft, Powershell
Redirecting a webpage using html
The redirect function in IIS 7 and 7.5 is in my experience pretty buggy. More often than not it will send the visitor into an eternal redirect loop. Because of that I have used this simple html code for redirecting, … Continue reading
Grep’ing the eventlog using powershell
If you are used to working with Linux you’re probably familiar with using tail, grep and such for gathering stuff from logs and other files. Those are quite useful tools and work very well when you want to find out … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged get-eventlog, microsoft, Powershell