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Get User Profiles and Last User that Logged on to Desktop Computers

Another Powershell script that helps with a migration. In this instance the requirement was for a...

Author: carl h2 Date: 07/03/2012

Compare AD Object Direct Group Membership

Who can guess I am working on an AD migration project at the moment? And it presents an opportunity...

Author: carl h2 Date: 07/02/2012

Copy AD User Profile Path etc between Domain User Objects

Here's a weird one, you are migrating users from multiple domains to a single domain and your...

Author: carl h2 Date: 07/02/2012

Powershell Script to find if Domain Admins is a member of Computer Local Administrators

So here's another script that I quickly knocked up. Basically, I was asked whether there was a way...

Author: carl h2 Date: 07/02/2012

Delete Stuff in AD

Once again another script to help one of my colleagues in need of a method of bulk deleting objects...

Author: carl h2 Date: 07/02/2012

Ever wanted to know what shares are on all your Servers

I have been scripting using VBScript for some time now, and only on occasion have I had the...

Author: carl h2 Date: 07/02/2012

Script to Recover a Hyper-V Guest

Recently, a colleague of mine had a customer that had a Hyper-V server whose operating system had...

Author: carl h2 Date: 12/14/2010

FRS Problem when Virtualising a Domain Controller

I recently had to assist someone who had virtualised a single Windows 2003 Domain Controller from...

Author: carl h2 Date: 06/22/2010

Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller Backup Lifetime advice

I was asked why we recommend not using backups older than the lesser of TSL and Deleted Lifetime and...

Author: carl h2 Date: 12/23/2009

Online Kernel Memory Dump using LiveKd.exe

How many times have you had to acquire a kernel memory dump, but you or your customer (quite...

Author: carl h2 Date: 11/30/2009

Dual Boot from VHD

When Windows 7 Beta came out, a colleague and I decided that the being able to dual boot from a VHD...

Author: carl h2 Date: 08/18/2009

Dual Boot Vista with Windows Server 2008

Some time ago I built my laptop with dual boot and had a few issues along the way. I thought it...

Author: carl h2 Date: 07/06/2009

Active Directory Dynamic Objects

What is a dynamic object? A dynamic object is an auxiliary class introduced in Windows Server 2003...

Author: carl h2 Date: 07/06/2009

“Squeaky Lobster” - Monitoring Version Store Counters

If you read nothing else in this blog post take a look at this...

Author: carl h2 Date: 06/17/2009

objectClass attribute in Windows 2008 is now indexed.

Did you know that the objectClass attribute in an Active Directory database is not Indexed in pre...

Author: carl h2 Date: 06/15/2009

After Booting into DSRM DC takes a long time to become available

I had an interesting issue recently and I thought it would be useful to share the information. I was...

Author: carl h2 Date: 06/15/2009