Tag: PowerShell

• Secure Wireless Access and Authentication with Radius on WS2012R2 Network Policy Server .

  Basic 802.1X Wireless network implementation requires an alphanumeric network key for access and authentication. In an enterprise environment this is not ideal. I’ve recently reconfigured and redesigned a client site’s WPAPersonal Wireless network for Radius (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) Authentication on an NPS (Network Policy Server) Server running on the Windows Server 2012R2 platform…

  jbernec

  September 20, 2016

  Active Directory, Network Policy Server, Radius Server

  Active Directory, Certificate, Certificate Authority, Group Policy, Network Policy Server, NPS, PowerShell, Radius Server, Wifi, Windows Server 2012 R2, Wireless Network

• Matching an Office 365 Azure Cloud user Identity with an On-premise Active Directory User Object.

  Recently I came across a situation with our Office 365 tenant deployment where a cloud user was created before we configured and ran Azure ADSync at the on premise Active Directory. Please note that we already had a matching on premise Active Directory user object with similar attributes. This resulted in an error after attempting…

  jbernec

  April 10, 2015

  Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365

  Azure AD Windows PowerShell, Azure ADSync, ImmutableID, ObjectGUID, Office 365, PowerShell

• Limit Exchange 2010 Email Attachment Size for users with PowerShell.

  Recently had a request to limit the email attachment size for specific users within the Exchange Organization. The following one line script took care of the request: New-TransportRule -Name ‘Attachment Size Limit’ -Comments ” -Priority ‘0’ -Enabled $true -FromMemberOf ‘AttachmentSizeLimit@Labnet.net’ -SentToScope ‘NotInOrganization’ -AttachmentSizeOver ‘300 KB (307,200 bytes)’ -RejectMessageReasonText ‘Sorry, your attachment exceeds the limit of…

  jbernec

  January 23, 2015

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

  Exchange 2010 SP1, Exchange Management Shell, Limit Email Attachment, Microsoft Exchange 2010, PowerShell, Size Limits

• PowerShell Script uses Split() Method to display Active Directory Users’ Organizational Unit and other Properties.

  A colleague was trying to generate a report of Active Directory Users, displaying their Organizational Unit and PasswordNeverExpires property status. Normally this should be very simple, but they ran into a small snag. The Active Directory module at the time of this writing which is PowerShell 4.0 does not have a direct Organizational Unit property…

  jbernec

  October 9, 2014

  Active Directory, Powershell 4.0, Script

  Active Directory, Cmdlets, Organizational Unit, PowerShell, PowerShell 4.0

• 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

• 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