I was working on creating a new lab environment for Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013. I decide to create a couple of new portgroups with VLANs on all the ESXi servers. the task was going to be repeated 30 times so I decided to spend a little time creating a script to automate the process of…
While working in my lab I found that my replication between sites was not working as fast as I needed. So I created a script to trigger the repadmin command every 5 minutes. Create Auto-Replication.ps1 file Open Notepad or your favorite powershell editor Type this line: 1..2094|foreach {start-sleep -s 5;cmd /c repadmin /syncall /AeP} Save…
While working with my new Exchange 2013 environment. I decided to remove the GUI to reduce the load. And after the reboot I lost my Exchange Management Shell. I can still access the new Exchange Admin Center via the web address https://servername.domain.com/ecp but now I cannot run any scripts via the Exchange Management Shell. Here…
Microsoft release Exchange 2013 Preview last week. Here are some notes from my first installation. Active Directory The current version of Exchange 2013 do not support upgrade from Previous versions. This feature will be added later. A new AD forest was created with Windows Server 2012 core. (Instructions) OS Installation The Exchange environment was build…
Here is a quick way to get a report for the Windows Firewall rules in Windows Server 2012. Enabled Firewall Rules Get-NetFirewallRule | Where-Object {$_.Action -eq “Allow”} | Format-Table -Property DisplayName Disabled Firewall Rules Get-NetFirewallRule | Where-Object {$_.Enabled -eq “False”} | Format-Table -Property Displayname
In the new world of Powershell you can replace many of the command line utilities used by Windows Administrators. Here is a way to replace Diskpart with PowerShell commands. 1. Check if the initiator can see the disk: Get-disk 2. Select the disk to bring disk online: Set-disk –number 3 –IsOffline $False 3. Make disk…
When a user login to a computer they want to log in as soon as posible. If the user logon time is slow, it may be an indication that something is wrong with the computer or network. Microsoft Windows 7/2008(R2) has an algorithm called NLA that calculates if a computer is on a slow network…
Working with PowerShell the next step is to enable additional features in my scripts. This script will send email directly from within PowerShell. Hope this helps someone.
Someone ask me how to import VM’s from a list. Here is a simple script to import VM’s based on a list. The script uses a single datastore.
After reviewing how VMware view set the Display Settings at the client I found that it save them in the VMware ADAM directory. If you will like to reset them to the pool defaults you can use this script to reset them back to the pool defaults. Copy this script to your View Connection Server.
Carlos Vargas 