PowerShell Creating a Home Folder for Users

Hi Readers, Sharing a script that I have written recently for Creatiing Home folder, adding permissions & updating Active directory home folder path. Download the zip file from below link & extract the script files. https://github.com/VikasSukhija/Downloads/blob/master/homedirectory.zip   Update the users.txt file with user logon names/samaccountnames Update the variables in the script & run the batch…

How to Enable Auditing in Exchange 2010

Hi Readers, Writing the information that will guide in enabling auditing for user mailboxes. In Exchange 2010 this is new feature & advantageous in case you want to know who has deleted, moved emails from shared mailbox, delegated mailbox etc. Some times for Messaging Admins these kinds of requests are quite common in which Security…

Distribute Mailbox databases based on activation preferences

Hi Readers, I was busy these days in some personnel stuff & was not able to write anything. Sharing a nice little Tip of Exchange 2010. If you want to quickly move the mailbox databases to relevant DAG Nodes based on activation preference , Exchange has an inbuilt script to do this Job. RedistributeActiveDatabases.ps1 .\RedistributeActiveDatabases.ps1 -DagName “DAG1” -BalanceDbsByActivationPreference Location: \Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange…

Windows 2008 R2 not booting after Power Outage

Hi Readers, Sharing the scenario where after the power outage one of our Windows 2008 R2  server was not booting up. Mother Board of the server was replaced by the vendor as it has gone bad but after that server was sticking on the Recovery Screen. We have tried few things but what eventually resolved the issue…