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Office 365/Azure: Force sync from Azure AD Connect to Office 365/Azure

Martin 12/04/2019 0 Comments

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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Active Directory, Azure, Office 365

Powershell: How to modify login script path

Martin 30/01/2019 2 Comments

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:

Active Directory, Powershell

Active Directory: Move FSMO roles with PowerShell

Martin 15/03/2018 2 Comments

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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Active Directory

Active Directory: Changing home folder servername

Martin 04/07/2017 0 Comments

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 ActiveDirectory


$oldServerName = "oldserver"
$newServerName = "newserver"



$AllUsers = Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter '(name=*)' -SearchBase "DC=domain,DC=local" -Properties HomeDirectory


foreach($user in $AllUsers){


if(($user.HomeDirectory.ToString()).contains($oldServerName)){
$homeDirectory = ($user.HomeDirectory.ToString()) -replace $oldServerName, $newServerName
Set-ADUser $user.DistinguishedName -HomeDirectory $homeDirectory
}


}

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Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$oldServerName = "oldserver"

$newServerName = "newserver"

$AllUsers = Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter '(name=*)' -SearchBase "DC=domain,DC=local" -Properties HomeDirectory

foreach($user in $AllUsers){

if(($user.HomeDirectory.ToString()).contains($oldServerName)){

$homeDirectory = ($user.HomeDirectory.ToString()) -replace $oldServerName, $newServerName

Set-ADUser $user.DistinguishedName -HomeDirectory $homeDirectory

}

Active Directory

NTFRS replication is going AWOL

Martin 14/09/2016 0 Comments

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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Active Directory, WIN2008R2, WIN2012R2

Exchange migrated, ActiveSync not working as supposed

Martin 02/10/2015 0 Comments

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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Active Directory, Exchange

Change UPN (based on Primary Email) based on SMTP proxy address

Martin 24/09/2015 0 Comments

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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Active Directory

Create a new UPN and use it as default for all your users

Martin 21/09/2015 3 Comments

If you in ex. want to enable Autodiscover for your mail clients, they need to have their e-mail as their username, and there for the UPN (Universal principal name), has to be changed from domain\user to user@domain.com. Here is how…
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Active Directory