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As default, users are created in “Users”, and Computers in “Computers” OU, but these are the default folders, and one may want to defferentiate between them, in ex. when using Azure AD Hybrid and Autopilot or Intune, when new computers…
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Been debugging like crazy the last day with this symptom: When you run the gpupdate /force command on a hybrid Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)-joined Windows device that’s enrolled in Microsoft Intune, you receive the following warning message: Updating policy… Computer Policy update…
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During a systemcrash, one of my domain controllers stopped showing the SYSVOL and Netlogon shares, I did a lot of debugging, and found out, that the DFS-R that was going on in Win2019 (Not NTFRS anymore :-)) what corrupted. So…
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Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) sync runs every 30 minutes. There are some situations, where you may want to force this earlier, in ex. of a new user you have created on-premise, and need this to be sync’ed to the…
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When you decide that the 90’s login script, .bat, .cmd files ;), has to leave for ex. GPO Drive maps, then you can remove it from all AD users with this simple command: And it’s gone:
When moving FSMO roles the old fashioned way, you use MMC and move the roles each individually, it takes a little time, but it’s somewhat troublesome. BUT, this can be achieved much quicker with Powershell 🙂 Here is how to…
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When migrating filservers and you are using the “Home Folder” setting of an AD user’s object like here: From: To: It would be great just to edit all objects in bulk, with this script, it is possible: Import-Module…
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Two domain controllers have perfect replication via Active Directory, but the “File Replication Service” eventlogs, shows many errors and the NETLOGON share is missing on both domain controllers, which will give user login problems and Active Directory tools cannot be…
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After a complete Exchange 2013 migration, everything works, but some users are complaining, that their mobile devices are not being updated with e-mails anymore. You try to delete their account and add it again, all is good when doing that,…
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During an Exchange migration, where the users have several domains spread among them, I needed to find a script that looks into the SMTP Proxyaddress of the user object, and changes the UPN for that user to match the ProxyAddress….
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