Export Reverse DNS PTR Records

Someone recently contacted me if I can assist them in exporting the PTR records in csv format, they have already tried DNSCMS /Exportzone or /enumrecords but getting the last octave of the ip address. e.g. for a zone 154.10.in-addr.arpa, they were getting 1.100                   PTR           zzzhostname Which is supposed to be 10.154.100.1 So here we go again,…

Enable/ Disable Scheduled Tasks on Multiple Computers

Today, I am sharing a script that we have used to enable/ disable tasks on multiple servers. This script had been utilized during the maintenance of these servers. Download & extract script from below link, change the variables as per your environment https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Enable-Disable-Scheduled-7eb81379 $matching1 = “snapshot” $matching2 = “Ent” Update the servers.txt file to include…

Server Decommission Audit

Recently one of the IT team approached us to create a script where they want to audit if the decommissioned servers in the environment have entries in Active directory, DNS, WINS & also to check the ping status. Their approach was to find any discrepancies. So this script has taken birth 🙂 , I am sharing it as it…

Exchange 2010 Create and Apply Retention Policy

Today in this blog post, we will create Retention policy for Voice Mails in Exchange environment. As per our organization standards we don’t want to retain the Voice Emails beyond  30 days, therefore we will create a policy & will apply it to Unified Messaging mailboxes. Note: please don’t use GUI on any step for…