PowerShell – Getting Server IP Address Information
Feb26

PowerShell – Getting Server IP Address Information

KB ID 0001404 Problem I’ve been rebuilding some Hyper-V hosts over the last few weeks, and one thing I learned rebuilding VMware ESX hosts is, ‘make sure you know what all the network cards are doing before you flatten it!’ The same is true of storage as well but here I’m just concentrating on networking. List Network Cards and MAC Addresses If you have these documented you can rename the network card correctly...

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Exchange – Creating Dynamic Distribution Groups Based on Organizational Units
Nov17

Exchange – Creating Dynamic Distribution Groups Based on Organizational Units

KB ID 0000820  Problem A Dynamic Distribution list, (as the name implies), maintains its membership for you. Unlike a normal static distribution list that you need to add/remove mailboxes manually. Solution Use PowerShell/Exchange Management Shell 1. I’m assuming you already have an OU populated with mail enabled users, in this example called Engineering. 2. Launch the Exchange Management Shell, Execute the following command, (change...

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Exchange – Enable ‘Out Of Office’ For Another User
Nov17

Exchange – Enable ‘Out Of Office’ For Another User

KB ID 0000843 Problem Got in the office to find a colleague was going to be on long term sick this morning, the boss asked, “Can we turn on his out of office?”. I could have simply changed the users password and logged into OWA and done it, but executing some PowerShell would be more elegant. Note: You must be in one of the following groups to carry out this procedure, Organizational Management, Recipient Management, or...

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Cisco ASA – View The Contents of an Object and Object-Group
Nov17

Cisco ASA – View The Contents of an Object and Object-Group

KB ID 0001043  Problem My colleague loves the ASDM, I put up with it and prefer command line. We were troubleshooting a problem the other day and he said, there this is why I prefer the ASDM, just ‘hover’ over an object-group and it will show you the contents of it. Now if (like my test firewall above) you only have a few hosts, then I don’t see the point, but if you have a very complicated config with hundreds of...

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