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Server | The-Server.Ninja The-Server.Ninja Server Admin by day… Server Ninja by night… Menu Skip to content HomeAbout Search Search for: Server Powershell – Creating Active Directory User Accounts: with an Office 365 mailbox Jan 11, 2018Jan 19, 2018 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt Most IT admins know what a pain it is to set up Active Directory user accounts, expressly when you need to setup a respective 365 mailbox. Hopefully, this script is going to help you! I’m going to guide you though using Powershell to create an Active Directory account, with a licenced Office 365 mailbox (in a hybrid Exchange 2013 environment). I’m thesping you’re executing this script from an Admin Powershell prompt, on a Domain joined PC (It maybe useful for you to run this script in Powershell ISE). This script will: Create an Active Directory user worth + indulge you to assign a user password (securely). Complete AD worth details such as telephone number and write (useful if you are using my email signature script guide). Create an Office 365 mailbox (this script assumes that you are running in Exchange hybrid mode (i.e. your merchantry moreover has an on Premise Exchange server). Turn on litigation hold enabled (for this to work, you will need the correct licences, ie: E3). Assign a 365 licence (I’m moreover assigning an ATP licence, Windows 10 licence and PowerBI standard licence). Continue reading → Advertisements Windows Deployment: PXE booting between VLAN’s Sep 13, 2016Nov 3, 2016 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt If you’re looking to PXE marching between VLAN’s (ie. a vlan for servers and a vlan for clients), you’ll need to add a couple of uneaten options into your DHCP server settings. Its an easy unbearable process, pursuit these steps should get things working for you: In Windows DHCP, expand your VLAN’s DHCP scope, and select telescopic options. add option 66 – enter the FQDN of your deployment server. add option 67 – enter \boot\x64\wdsnbp.com (or if you’re deploying 32bit images: boot\x86\wdsnbp.com).  For reference you’ll find this file is in your deployment servers REMINST directory. When you marching up your vendee computer, it will now receive the correct tftp response and will be worldly-wise PXE boot! Defeat Ransomware: Use Microsoft File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) – with a twist! Sep 6, 2016May 12, 2017 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt You may have seen some translating floating well-nigh on the internet, showing  you how to use Microsoft’s File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) to prevent Ransomware. The problem with these wares is that they all involve maintaining a woodcut list. You’ll find those woodcut lists rarely alimony up with new variants of Ransomware. So, in this article, i’m going to show you how to defeat ransomware – with a twist! Lemons… good for lemonade. Not so good at vibration Ransomware! Continue reading → Using a Raspberry Pi as a Squid proxy enshroud – updated for 2018 Mar 26, 2016Apr 2, 2018 / Severn / 4 Comments I was looking to build *something* that would possibly goody several customers that have slow or laggy internet wangle (ie 2mb broadband or satellite). The solution needed to be forfeit constructive and unobtrusive. I did some research and decided to use Squid. Squid (amongst other things) can enshroud web objects (such as images and executables), speeding up page load times and download times.   Next, I needed some hardware to run Squid on. Squid can run on Linux and Windows computers, but i ruled out Windows as thats a paid licenced product, thus not forfeit effective.  I moreover didnt want to install Squid on a desktop computer, i’d either have to buy a new computer, or re-purpose an old computer – (which can be noisy and unsightly). Both options would moreover slosh significant amounts of energy per year, then not very forfeit effective.   Enter the Raspberry Pi! Continue reading → Windows Deployment – Advanced – Part 1. Performing Domain Joins Securely Jul 18, 2015Jul 25, 2015 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt In the first of this new multi-part series, I will show you how to take you Windows Deployment to the next level. (For this series, we're thesping your running Server 2012 R2 with the latest updates, and the latest release of MDT 2013). This vendible looks at locking lanugo the os.deploy worth that you use to automatically join computers to the domain. So, let us modernize the security of the mdt join account. This worth which we have specified in CustomSettings.ini (Windows Deployment, Part 1: Configuring the Deployment Environment) and which is used by MDT to join the target computer to the domain. If we leave this worth as a Domain User, then MDT will be worldly-wise to join the first few computers it installs into the domain but then will goof to join any others. This is considering by default Domain Users can only join 10 computers to the domain. In our initial article, we made the worth a member of the domain admins group – of course, perfectly winning in a lab environment, but not so in the real world. This is considering of these three facts: The domain admin password is visible in the customsettings.ini The domain admin password is sent in plain text wideness the network The domain admin password is temporarily stored on the remote pc So, how do we overcome this?? Continue reading → Death from above: The silent server room killer May 27, 2015Jul 9, 2015 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt It was a Tuesday morning without a wall holiday. 90 minute trek into the office, which was quicker than the usual two hour slog out of Cornwall. Turned the palmtop on, and grabbed a coffee whilst the palmtop finished installing its selection of updates for Windows 10 tech preview. Upon firing up our service workbench application, I was greeted with hundreds of server alerts from the evening before. Careful inspection of the alerts showed that the aircon had failed in one of our customers replacement server rooms. Luckily, the extractor fan we insisted on having installed (after a secondary aircon unit was considered too expensive) was worldly-wise to squire with cooling the room. Not unbearable to alimony the room cool, but helped prevent forfeiture to the hardware. The local aircon maintenance visitor were tabbed out to perform an urgent repair.Withoutunder an hour onsite, the aircon engineer had resolved the problem and the disaster had been averted. The problem? Dandelion seeds. An glut of dandelion seeds had obstructed the external inverter units fan, causing it to overheat and trip out the power. This of undertow shut lanugo the aircon to the server room. Unbelievable, but true. If you have external aircon inverters, its worth getting them checked out! What can I do to prevent this: Of undertow having redundant aircon units on separate supplies is a unconfined idea (with an yearly maintenance contract) , if funds allow, but having email alerts coming through is a unconfined warning system, and its little to no forfeit to implement. It’s moreover possible to shutdown servers if they get hot (though of undertow that can have its own issues with regards to continuity of service). I recommend taking a squint at this guide from the guys over at howtogeek Enable Hyper-V replication between two workgroup servers May 13, 2015Jun 27, 2017 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt Hyper-V replication is an essential ‘server availability’ tool for any organization. Whilst it is not a substitute for good backups; it will indulge you to restore an up-to-date reprinting of your virtual servers very quickly, should your primary host hardware fail. In this tutorial, i have built two Windows 2012 R2 servers using a pair of old Dell Optiplex 580’s (AMD Phenom CPU, upgraded to 8GB RAM each), and a single 8 port Netgear GB switch. The Primary server name is: Truro The Secondary server name is: Exeter Lets get started… Continue reading → Search for: Recent Posts Powershell – Creating Active Directory User Accounts: with an Office 365 mailbox Jan 11, 2018 GDPR – Getting Started Dec 19, 2017 Windows 10 v1709 Deployment Nov 16, 2017 News: Windows Server 2016 RTM. 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