Chinny Chukwudozie, Ai architecture.

How to Customize Exchange 2010 RBAC Roles for Delegating User/Contact Management Part 2.

As a follow up to the last post, I decided to further restrict the Support Staff users’ access to the available Custom ‘Address Book Management’ Role cmdlets. The following commands enabled me accomplish this objective: 1) C:\>Get-ManagementRoleEntry -Identity “Address Book Management\*” | ?{$_.Name -ne “Get-User”} | Remove-ManagementRoleEntry ( This command removes all available cmdlets from…

jbernec

September 30, 2013

Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Cmdlets, Exchange Management Roles, Exchange Management Shell, Microsoft Exchange, PowerShell, RBAC, Role Based Access Control

Address Book Management, Drive letter assignment, ManagementRoleEntry -Identity, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange 2010, Outlook Web App, RBAC, Role-based access control, Windows, Windows PowerShell
How to Customize Exchange 2010 RBAC Roles for Delegating User/Contact Management Part 1.

I recently received a request for specific users to be able to modify users and contact information for the HR department. I immediately thought of Exchange Role Based Access Control. Personally, I think this is one of the best features of Microsoft Exchange 2010, but that’s another story. In short, RBAC ensures that end-users only…

jbernec

September 29, 2013

Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Cmdlets, Exchange Management Roles, Exchange Management Shell, RBAC, Role Based Access Control

EMS, OWA, RBAC
Configuring InterVLAN Routing on a Layer 3 Switch and providing DHCP to multiple subnets Part 1

In this series, I would like to post my practical experience in setting up multiple VLANs/subnets and using a Layer 3 switch to route traffic across them. The post will also include my configuration steps enabling the use of a Microsoft-based DHCP Server. This is by no means a treatise on these subjects. A number…

jbernec

September 26, 2013

Cisco, DHCP, Helper Address, IP, Router, svi, Switch, Switch Virtual Interface, vlan

2960, 3750G, IP, SVI, VLAN
How to Restore an Active Directory Object from Backup.

In this post, I am going to talk about my experience doing an Authoritative Restore of a deleted Active Directory user object. The steps were completed by restoring from a previous System State backup and using the ntds utility. I started by deleting a test AD user: Ryan Smith from the Accounting_OU Organizational Unit in…

jbernec

September 17, 2013

Active Directory, BCDEdit, DSRM, NTDSUtil, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup

Active Directory, ntdsutil, Restore, wbadmin, Windows Server 2008 R2
How to remove/delete email sent to wrong user(s) using Search-mailbox cmdlet

I recently came by a situation where confidential email was mistakenly sent to the wrong users. I was asked to find a way to delete the email. I knew I could use the Search-mailbox cmdlet since this is an Exchange 2010 deployment, but totally forgot I had to configure a Role assignment before this could…

jbernec

September 12, 2013

Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Cmdlets, Exchange Management Shell, PowerShell
Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 5

As it turns out, I already have two Virtual machines running on one of the cluster nodes. I set these up before the cluster creation. The VMs are currently not cluster roles/resources. I will go ahead and make one of the VMs (WK7) a cluster role by adding it to the cluster. PS C:\> Get-VM…

jbernec

September 10, 2013

Cluster Shared Volume, CSV, Failover Cluster, Hyper-v, ISCSI, ISCSI Initiator, ISCSI Target, Microsoft Hyper-v, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Quorum, Virtual Machines, Witness

Clusters, Hyper-v, Initiator, ISCSI, Virtual Machine, WS 2012
Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 4

Here we go over my steps for the actual cluster creation, cluster and node validation, quorum setup and cluster shared volume configuration.We have by running a cluster validation on each node. This can be achieved with the following cmdlets: Test-Cluster -Node hyperv01 Test-Cluster -Node hyperv03 In this case, the test passed. The process basically gives…

jbernec

September 9, 2013

Cluster Shared Volume, CSV, Failover Cluster, Hyper-v, ISCSI, ISCSI Initiator, ISCSI Target, Microsoft Hyper-v, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Quorum, Windows Server 2012, Witness
Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 3

In the next part of the series, we will create a simple 1GB iSCSI virtual disk, assign it to the already configured target and verify the disk is visible to the iSCSI initiators. New-IscsiVirtualDisk -Description “Witness Disk” -Path g:\iscsivirtualdisks\Witness00.vhd -Size 1GB -ComputerName labtarget -Verbose (Create the 1GB iSCSI virtual disk) Add-IscsiVirtualDiskTargetMapping -TargetName Target00 -Path g:\iscsivirtualdisks\Witness00.vhd…

jbernec

September 9, 2013

Cluster Shared Volume, CSV, Failover Cluster, Hyper-v, ISCSI, ISCSI Initiator, ISCSI Target, Microsoft Hyper-v, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Windows Server 2012
How to Configure ssh on a Cisco Switch.

Telnet is a widely used protocol for accessing and administering Cisco devices. But this protocol is not exactly secure and transmits data over a network in plain text. Ssh is a secure protocol and it’s best practice to secure your access to all devices. Configuring ssh on most Cisco switch models is a straightforward process.…

jbernec

September 9, 2013

Cisco, Router, ssh, Switch, Telnet
Configuring Policy Based Routing on a Cisco 3750G EMI

So we recently restructured the Company network from a flat network to multiple Vlans. The need has arisen to route traffic for specific vlans through a different ISP for business reasons. This means routing traffic to a path different from the default route configured on the Core switch , which in this case is a…

jbernec

September 8, 2013

ASA, Cisco, Firewall, IOS, Router, Switch