Chinny Chukwudozie, Ai architecture.

Creating Resource Mailbox Resource Property Schema in Exchange Server 2010.

We’ve added a few conference rooms and Equipment mailboxes and I decided to add custom resource properties to distinguish the rooms and equipment . The properties indicate what features are specific to a resource like the conference room conference call phone and equipment model. By default, these properties are not configured for resource mailboxes.The Get-ResourceConfig…

jbernec

March 19, 2014

Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Cmdlets, Exchange Management Shell, Microsoft Exchange, PowerShell

Exchange Management Shell, Resource Mailbox
Configuring NAT (Network Address Translation) on a Cisco 1921 Router.

These are the steps I would follow to configure NAT (Network Address Translation) on a Cisco 1921 Router. The tool of choice is Putty configured to log the commands. You could use the Cisco IOS context Help to assist with the configuration: 1) Open the Putty application and select the Serial Port Connection Type to…

jbernec

March 11, 2014

Access-Lists, Cisco, NAT, Network Address Translation, Router

ACL, Cisco, IOS, NAT, Router
Configuring Network Adapter TCP/IP Settings using Powershell 4.0 Cmdlets .

PowerShell 4.0 is a requirement for these cmdlets to work.The GUI( Graphic User Interface) is commonly used to configure network adapter settings or the good old netsh command. But if I had to work with Hyper-v core or Windows Server 2012 R2 core, there’s a number of PowerShell cmdlets that could be used in place…

jbernec

March 3, 2014

Hyper-v 2012 R2, PowerShell, Powershell 4.0, WIndows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2

Cmdlets, Default Gateway, DNS Client, Network Adapter, Static IP Address, TCP/IP
Configuring NIC Teaming on Windows Server 2012 R2 using PowerShell.

I want to quickly write about creating NIC teams on Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster hosts for virtual machine access to the public network. There are a number of parameters to consider when creating a NIC team on this platform, but the two primary parameters for me are : 1) Teaming Mode: I selected the…

jbernec

February 25, 2014

Hyper-v 2012 R2, Network Load Balancing, NIC Teaming, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012 R2

LoadBalancing, NIC Team, PowerShell, Powershell 3.0, Teaming Mode
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC in 1974 . Just Awesome !!

jbernec

February 18, 2014

Uncategorized, Video

Arthur C. Clarke, History, Internet
Setting Up a WS2012 R2 Windows Deployment Server (WDS) for Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE).

In this post I want to quickly go through my experience setting up a Windows Deployment Server for PXE Boot(Pre-Boot Execution Environment) for my lab servers. Platform is Windows Server 2012 R2 .I outline the steps as follows: 1) Open a PowerShell console and use the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet to install the specific role as indicated…

jbernec

February 11, 2014

Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, DHCP, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Pre-Boot Execution Environment, PXE, Virtual Machines, WDS, Windows Deployment Server, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

Legacy Network Adapter, PXE, VM, WDS, Windows Deployment Server
Using NTDSUTIL Metada Cleanup to Remove a Failed/Offline Domain Controller Object.

In this post, I would like to talk about using the ntdsutil utility for metadata cleanup. A domain controller failure ‘DC00’ recently occurred in my lab. Running the repadmin /replsum command confirmed a replication error and showed DC00 as unavailable: Since a dcpromo was obviously out of the question, I used the Ntdsutil metadata cleanup…

jbernec

January 27, 2014

Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, DCPromo, Domain Controller, DSRM, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, NTDSUtil, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

Active Directory, DNS, Domain controller, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, metadata cleanup, ntdsutil
Demoting the last Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller with PowerShell.

As with promoting a server to domain controller, demoting the a domain controller is also a straight forward process with PowerShell. The following PowerShell cmdlets are available from the ADDSDeployment module: Uninstall Active Directory: The demote process got a little tricky because this was the last DC in the domain and had an Operations Master…

jbernec

January 13, 2014

Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, DCPromo, Domain Controller, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

Active Directory, Cmdlets, Powershell 3.0, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server 2012, WS 2012, WS2012 R2
Configuring a Single Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Domain Controller in a new Forest.

Pre-Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell 4.0, the primary tool/command for Active Directory Domain Controller promotion and demotion has always been the Dcpromo command. With Windows Server 2012, it’s been replaced by a suite of PowerShell cmdlets contained in the ADDSDeployment module. In this post, I’ll talk about my experience setting up a single WS2012 R2…

jbernec

January 6, 2014

Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

Domain controller, Domainname, PowerShell, Server, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server 2012
Deploying a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller in an existing Win2003 Functional Level Domain.

My first task before deploying a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller in a Windows Server 2003 forest functional level environment was to run the Test-ADDSDomainControllerInstallation cmdlet and determine my domain environment’s readiness to accept the new Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller installation without any glitches: [ws2012r2]: PS C:\Users\admin\Documents> Test-ADDSDomainControllerInstallation -DomainName genesys.net | fl…

jbernec

December 30, 2013

Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, DCPromo, Domain Controller, DSRM, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, NTDSUtil, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

Active Directory, Cmdlets, dcdiag, DNS, Domain controller, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, Operations Master, Powershell 3.0, Schema Version, Windows PowerShell, WS2012 R2