Chinny Chukwudozie, Ai architecture.

AI Solutions and Agentic Engineering.

Seizing Active Directory FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operations ) roles with Powershell.

I have been running 2 Virtual Machines as Active Directory Domain Controllers in the Lab for sometime now. DC00 was running Windows Server 2003 R2 and DC01 is running Windows Server 2008 R2. But recently I lost a Hyper-v machine hosting DC00 Domain Controller VM, I had no replica available to immediately failover and didn’t…

jbernec

December 23, 2013

Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, Domain Controller, 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, Domain controller, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, ntdsutil, Operations Master, Powershell 3.0, Windows PowerShell
The Perfection of Beauty !!

Beauty residing in the eye of the beholder is a lie. Because it is found in the BEAUTIFUL One, the most High !!

jbernec

December 20, 2013

Video

Blair Linne, Most High
Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 in Dual-Boot Configuration using Windows 8.1 Native Boot-to-VHD capability

In this post, I’ll be sharing my experience deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 in a dual-boot configuration leveraging Windows 8.1 Enterprise native boot-to-vhd feature. This enabled me setup a sort of Lab-to-go for WS2012 R2 Active Directory research on a laptop. The steps are as follows: Create a WS 2012 Server VM. I already have…

jbernec

December 14, 2013

BCDEdit, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, VHDX, Virtual Machines, WIndows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2

BCDBoot, boot-to-vhd, vhdx, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2
Resolving Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Kerberos Security Issue – Invalid DNS Error

I’ve been running Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster for about a year and it’s been stable up until now. Recently, I encountered an issue where Live migration of VMs failed across all hosts in the cluster. In addition, the Failover Cluster Manager started displaying the following error: Cluster network name resource ‘Cluster Name’ failed registration…

jbernec

December 10, 2013

Failover Cluster, Failover Cluster Manager, Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

DNS, Failover, Failover Cluster Manager, Virtual Machine, Windows Server 2012
Flowers Only Bloom On Upper-Eastside || Spoken Word by Cynthia Amoah.

Powerful and thought provoking words by Cynthia Amoah .

jbernec

December 10, 2013

Video

Cynthia Amoah, Spoken Word
Converting a User Mailbox to Resource Room Mailbox using PowerShell.

In past versions of Exchange Server, specifically Exchange 2003, managing Resource Room mailboxes was not exactly a straight forward process. In my organization at the time, to manage room Calendars and bookings for Conference rooms (they were not referred to as Resource Rooms at the time), we had to create mailboxes to represent the conference…

jbernec

December 1, 2013

Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Cmdlets, Exchange Management Shell, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, WIndows 8.1

Exchange 2010 SP1, Windows PowerShell
Checking Available Disk Space and Memory with Powershell.

I frequently need to display the disk size, available disk space properties and Processor details of my remote Hyper-v 2012 Hosts servers. I could use the Computer Management snapin to do this, but it involves too many steps just to get there. The Get-VM cmdlet while cool, will not display disk based properties. So I…

jbernec

November 26, 2013

Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Virtual Machines, WIndows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2

Disk Management, Disk space, Gigabyte, Hyper-v, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Powershell 3.0, Servers, Windows PowerShell
Renaming AD User Object Surname Property.

The following script renames the Surname property of an Active Directory User Object. The script requires PowerShell 3.0. The only edit required is the organizational Exchange Server name specified in the New-PSSession cmdlet. The script accepts the Given Name, Surname and new Surname parameters’ input from the console,executes the rename of the Active Directory object…

jbernec

November 18, 2013

Active Directory, Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Cmdlets, Exchange Management Shell, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, WIndows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

Active Directory, Powershell 3.0
Awe-inspiring split video by the amazing Jean-Claude Van Damme!!

A body crafted to perfection.A pair of legs Engineered to defy the laws of physics. And a mindset to muster the most epic of splits!! :Awe-inspiring split video by the amazing Jean-Claude Van Damme performed on Volvo trucks driven backwards!! Dang !! With Van Damme and Volvo, it appears the balance between mind, body and…

jbernec

November 16, 2013

Video

Amazing Split, Enya, Jean Claude Van Damme, Volvo
Configuring multiple ISCSI Connections for Multipath IO using PowerShell.

This post will be focused mainly on the ISCSI Initiator host and configuring multipath IO paths to an ISCSI Target. The ISCSI Target portal has already been configured with 2 network paths for ISCSI. The ISCSI Service by default is in a ‘Stopped’ state. So, we’ll begin by starting the service: [hyperv00]: PS C:\Users\admin\Documents> Start-Service…

jbernec

November 11, 2013

Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, ISCSI, ISCSI Initiator, ISCSI Target, Multipath-IO, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

ISCSI, MPIO, Multipath-IO, Powershell 3.0, Windows PowerShell