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Parallel Universe - MS Tech Blog
Private Cloud - A Journey Part 1 (from a PFE point of view)
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1 month ago
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John McCabe PFE
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A few weeks back I was in Las Vegas! Attending the MMS 2013 Summit. After attending the keynote and given I have seen most of the demo's before that were displayed during the session, I am still impressed by what you can do natively in the Microsoft...
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Powershell - Lync Change Services to Automatic / Manual / Stop and Start before patching
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5 months ago
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John McCabe PFE
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This is a common problem I have come across in an enterprise pool, when you drain and patch and reboot one of the front end nodes the services will start again and users will re-home to the server, but you may not be finish working with the server and...
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Powershell - Lync Get All Users Last Registration Time From Front End
Posted
7 months ago
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John McCabe PFE
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this takes doug's concept ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/dodeitte/archive/2011/05/11/how-to-get-the-last-time-a-user-registered-with-a-front-end.aspx) and just runs it in powershell query and outputs the results to a text file to allow you to search ...
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Simple Print Queue Monitor - Powershell
Posted
7 months ago
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John McCabe PFE
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its taking me a long time to get back to this... been super busy in work which is always a good thing! here is some sample code which will allow you to create a very simple print queue monitor and log the details out to a csv file for further manipulation...
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Multipinger with powershell
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10 months ago
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John McCabe PFE
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I decided to give this a go and create a multipinger with powershell... this is my first draft! if I get time I plan to change it to use jobs instead and then format the results out... but this is a functional first draft.. here is the code ...
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Duplicate File Finder With Powershell!
Posted
11 months ago
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John McCabe PFE
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here is a little script I was playing with to find duplicate files on your disk here is the code #Define the results path $outputdirectory = $env:userprofile + "\Desktop" $outputfile = "duplicatefileresults.txt" $output = $outputdirectory...
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Evenly Distribute your VM's across your standalone Windows 8 Hyper-V Hosts using powershell
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over 1 year ago
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John McCabe PFE
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Interestingly enough the argument with people still happens about not wanting management tools for their system. So I created this script as a basis which will load balance out VM's across multiple hosts using live migration here is the code...
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powershell simple bandwidth monitor
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over 1 year ago
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John McCabe PFE
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very simple bandwidth monitor allows you to select your interface and will take the average bandwidth over 60 seconds (you can configure!) here it is !.... $interfaces = Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfFormattedData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface...
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Powershell Lync Export & Import Script for Users Contacts... for DR?
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over 1 year ago
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John McCabe PFE
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So if you want to export and import the contact information between to pools for DR here is 2 simple powershell scripts that will help. This will also move the users from the primary to the backup pool so the backup pool becomes their primary register...
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Powershell : Scan AD find users who's password are close to expiring and email them!
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over 1 year ago
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John McCabe PFE
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i was ask for this as an interim step for a customer who needs to save money! hopefully at some point they will have the money to buy an identity management system etc.. but hey sometimes we have to solve these particular needs here is the code...
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Powershell - Automated Lync Deployment V1
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over 1 year ago
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John McCabe PFE
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If you need to deploy an environment this may help... the script should deploy the windows pre-reqs, the lync pre-reqs, the local management store, the role specifc stuff , request the certificate and assign it and start the services and install network...
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Powershell - Mass Import and Enable Lync Users For EV
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over 1 year ago
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John McCabe PFE
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For my own reference :) but feel free to use! first create a file on your desktop called import.csv the format should be something like firstname,lastname,samaccountname,phonenumber,extension john,doe,jdoe,+35312791234,1234 sean,test,test...
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Windows 2008 File Servers using a large amount of memory
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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Recently i have come across alot of file servers which have a large amount of in use and because of this are slow. When you investigate the task manager you see that there is little or no services taking up RAM but yet you are hitting the memory limit...
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Updated Lync Patching Guide V1.1
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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I just updated it to include devices and clients here is the original link to the first post where i have uploaded the doc http://blogs.technet.com/b/parallel_universe_-_ms_tech_blog/archive/2011/11/24/lync-patching-guide.aspx
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Powershell Script - Lync Dump Address Book From SQL Database
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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i have had lots of address book issues the last few days and put together this quickly (and i know there are cleaner ways of doing it!) basically it probes the sql backend server dumps out what information the update-csuserdatabase populates from...
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Lync Patching Guide v1.1
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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just updated the guide to 1.1 i have added devices and clients in..... hope it is useful for you!
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Powershell Script - Cleaning up your hyper-v environment after a lab
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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so this is part 2 this will.... 1. enumerate the VM's on the system 2. turn them off 3. delete them 4. enumerate the virtual switches 5. delete them 6. delete the VM Storage Location (it will prompt you for the path) this should...
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Powershell Script - Deploying Exported VM's for training labs
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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In my previous job i had to deploy a lot of labs, and since i worked full time in there i didnt really both with beginning to automate the process, well i dont have the time anymore so i need to start :) this is part 1 of the script which will deploy...
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powershell - checking exchange 2010 queues using WMI
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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just in case you are not allowed open remote powershell or something like that, here is a quick way to collect the information via WMI from a remote computer... # Setting path to servers.txt file for input later on... $inputfilepath = $env:USERPROFILE...
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powershell - check your free disk space and warn below a threshold..
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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here is the basis of a script you can use to generate an alert using send-mailmessage or via ops manager or something! when disk space is below a certain threshold... enjoy! $freespacethreshold = 17 # Setting path to servers.txt file for input...
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Powershell - Export your print configuration from registry
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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I was asked to produce this script for follow up checking of driver versions later on or possible settings which can cause problems. The idea would be that a master file is updated on a website and then we can reference this in the script to pull...
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Powershell - Lync Map a SIP User to the IP Address it came from
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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i need testers on this one.... please try it if you want and let me know the results.... basically it will discover what sip users are registered against the particular FE server and report on its client version / sip address and the originating IP...
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Powershell Script for Collection Events Logs from multiple servers and generating a single html report
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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i was asked by a customer to do this and it was one of those scripts that was written in about 15 mins and to me anyway proved interesting just to write and output to html... their big thing is they wanted to be able to collect multiple events logs...
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Powershell script - Synthetic transactions in Lync after a patch is deployed
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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here is the code... you need to run this on a front end server and this will test enterprise voice as well add / remove bits you feel you need.... :) set-executionpolicy unrestricted import-module lync Write-host "This script will test...
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powershell script to automate BPA for Hyper-V
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over 2 years ago
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John McCabe PFE
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Another little powershell script to automate some bits that i come across this script will 1. test if you have the hyper-v bpa installed 2. download the hyper-v and install it 3. run it and list errors and warnings 4. output the whole thing...
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