February 2009 - Posts

Script for Bulk Import of Active Directory Site Links

I wrote this script when I was frequently deploying replication topologies for large geographies. Rather than manually creating them one at a time, I would set everything up in a spreadsheet and then import the spreadsheet. There are a few assumptions...
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Script for Bulk Import of Active Directory Subnets

I’ve been using this script for years now and was reminded of it by a post on the activedir.org DL the other day. The script does exactly what the name implies – it takes a tab separated input file (supplied as the first argument) and generates...
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Active Directory Presentation for Chicago Windows User Group

Attached below is a copy of the presentation I gave for the Chicago Windows User Group on February 16 th , 2009. I included the slides which I didn't get to show due to time as well. Windows Server 2008 & Windows 7 Security – Whats New Read...
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VMWare and HyperV on the Same Machine

Apparently running VMWare Workstation on a HyperV host is a no-go. I loaded it to try it and while it seems nice – it's gone just as quick as it came: Read More...
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