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Today I wanted a quick overlook of all the OU’s and their distinguished Name. This is how I did that. Open a PowerShell prompt and enter the following : U can expect a reply something like below : […]
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This blogpost describes how to add an extra email address on your O365 mailbox. Someone told me that when he tries to add an extra email address using the Office 365 admin partner he receives the following error : The error says that this action (adding an extra email address) should be performed on the […]
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I received a question why the Attrib Editor option didn’t show up in Active Directory Users & Computers. See the picture below. This is well known issue (by design). When you search for a user there is no Attrib Editor option. Instead go to the specific OU and open the properties from that specific user. […]
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A collegae asked me if it was possible for end users to change their passwords themself. Ofcourse there are several commerical tools (like manageengine) which allows users to change their passwords but they are not cheap and licensed by the number of end users. (In my case > 2000 users) First I used the IISADMPWD […]
Sometimes you don’t want to wait/rely to your WSUS environment for specific updates. But when you try to install updates manually you might notice the following message : It’s easy to go around this, you copy/paste the following code into a reg file : Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] “NoDriveTypeAutoRun”=dword:00000095 “NoWindowsUpdate”=dword:00000000 “NoAutoUpdate”=dword:00000001 When you […]
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Some time ago I ran into an error while installing Exchange. It seems this problem also occurs when upgrading/installing an Exchange Server service pack. This is how to fix this problem : First go to the (root) domain controller and register the schema extension :
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regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll |
Now load the plugin by starting mmc and adding […]
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Some time ago I ran into a problem while opening a application on a Windows DFS share : All the standard solutions, like internet explorer intranet zones etc. didn’t work. After some troubleshooting I found out the following group policy setting fixed my issue : User configuration/administrative templates/windows components/attachment manager Add the extensions (*.exe, […]
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A customer had a problem that a virusscanner didn’t like a executable on the desktop and therefore somehow refused access to the user’s profile. The user decided to remove his profile (all the files in c:\users\<user>) and tried to logon. The user noticed that each time a temporary profile was created. The solution was as […]
This week after changing the IP address of an Exchange 2003 server I ran into the following error : After some troubleshooting I noticed the IP subnet in Active Directory Sites and Services was not created as it should be. Therefore I created the right subnet and the error disappeared. […]
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Before I upgrade a domain I usually check for problems and issues. I use the following steps to give me an idea of the status :
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dcdiag /v |
(Check DC en services)
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netdiag /v |
Check networking components
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netsh dhcp show server |
Show DHCP status
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repadmin /showreps |
Show all replication between sites
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repadmin /replsum /errorsonly |
Show replication issues When you perform the steps mentioned […]
