Need to bulk import users into Active Directory? Need to make bulk changes to existing Active Directory users? AD Bulk Users makes importing and modifying large numbers of users easy. Import users in bulk from CSV, Excel, ODBC, SQL, Oracle etc.
Compliancy blues got you down? ADAudit Plus can help. I’ve used this tool in the past for monitoring SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and FISMA compliance, and can only say good things about it.
I’ve shown you previously how to get the date value from the system in a batch file. You can also grab the time in a similar fashion.
There is one simple reason that I am moving my email back to Gmail: Search is broken.
There are a two really easy ways to get the netBIOS name of the local machine. One leverages API calls to Win32, while the other simply queries an environment variable.
During the installation of Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR), you may run into a puzzling error, “Failed to invoke PowerShell query SCVMM components are not installed.” Luckily, an easy fix.
So if you don’t know it, the technical preview version of Windows 10 is available. Being the good maintenance guy, you’ll want to know about installing VB6 on Windows 10. This article shows how I got it running on Microsofts latest OS. I won’t run down the list of getting Windows 10 installed. If you’re able to grab… Read More »
This handy little script will dump out your Active Directory users to an Excel spreadsheet. Simply run it with an account that has the necessary permissions to query AD, and it will do the rest, including notify you with a dialog box when it is done.
After performing a V2V, P2V or a clone operation in which the VHD/VHDX file is copied to a new VM, a new NIC is installed in the virtual machine. This is evidenced by the need to once again set the IP configuration of the NIC.
In a virtualized environment, we have the ability to create point-in-time snapshots, or checkpoints in Microsoft parlance, of virtual machines. This gives the ability to immediately roll back any changes after the checkpoint operation was performed. This is especially useful when debugging an application, or performing migrations and upgrades to applications.