Bulk Creating Users For Your Test Network
Jul07

Bulk Creating Users For Your Test Network

Bulk Creating Users KB ID 0000784  Problem Update Jul 2025: Feel free to use this Bulk-Create-AD-Users-Script (Just remeber to change the domain details in the “Global Variables’ Sections to give you 10o0 users, with sensible names addreeses etc. Having a test network, is great for both learning, and testing. I’ve got some major migrations coming up in the next few months, so I’m in the process of running up some new...

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Updating Domain Computer Objects with Last Logon and Machine Information
Apr09

Updating Domain Computer Objects with Last Logon and Machine Information

Last Logon KB ID 0001340  Problem I can’t really take the credit for this, I was at a client’s site a few weeks ago, and they were doing this. I thought ‘That’s cool, I’ll have a play with that when I get the chance”. Essentially, you update the description of the Computer object(s) in AD so that they list; The last user who logged on. What time they logged on. What AD ‘Site’ the machine...

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Exchange: ‘Can’t find the Organizational Unit that you specified’
May30

Exchange: ‘Can’t find the Organizational Unit that you specified’

KB ID 0001561 Problem I’ve not actually seen this myself, but it was asked on a forum, and I managed to replicate it on the bench. When working on a user or mailbox in Exchange  you may see the following error; Error Can’t find the organisational unit that you specified, Make sure that you have typed the OU’s identity correctly Solution This happens because you have a ‘Slash’ ‘/’in the...

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Cisco ASA – Remote IPSEC VPN With the NCP Entry Client
Nov23

Cisco ASA – Remote IPSEC VPN With the NCP Entry Client

KB ID 0001260  Problem I’ve covered Cisco IPSEC Remote VPNs a long time ago, and I’ve also blogged about the Cisco IPSEC VPN Client Software. Yes you can get the Cisco VPN Client Working on Windows 10, but can you imagine rolling that out to a few hundred users? The bottom line is Remote Cisco IPSEC VPN is a dead technology, Cisco, (and Me!) want you to use AnyConnect. For a couple of users you can use the work arounds...

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OWA 2016 – Change Login From Domain\Username to Username
Nov07

OWA 2016 – Change Login From Domain\Username to Username

KB ID 0001254  Problem Out of the box, if you want to log into Outlook Web App, you need to use the Domain\Username format, like so; Seeing as how Microsoft are making a big song and dance about using UPN’s to log into Office 365, I thought they might have changed from the NT4 way of doing things, but hey what do I know? As we all know users are stupid, Domain\Username is up there with string theory and quantum mechanics. So how...

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