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Active Directory Admin Password We had a security lab on Azure with 12 machines, It included 2 DCs and 10 other machines of different OS and had RDP closed on all the machines except one machine to use. The Password was set for something simple however it seems that someone has changed it and no […]
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Upgrade FRS to DFS: You might be searching on how to do this due to many reasons, Migrating your DCs to Windows 2016 or Windows 2019, The steps to do this type of migration is pretty easy and straightforward. First Let’s explain a bit about what does FRS and DFS do and what is the […]
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Active Directory / Exchange 2016 / Exchange 2019 / Exchange Online / Microsoft / Office 365 / Powershell December 19, 2019
READ MOREThe Story: I have got this client who constantly keeps on making the mistake of create user from Cloud and provision them with a license in an Exchange Hybrid environment. Although this is not difficult to fix but it’s not the recommended approach when creating a new user especially in a Hybrid environment since Exchange […]
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The story: I have got a request from a client asking to find out which server(s) is using which domain admin or a highly privileged account as a service. To find this I already wrote a powershell script that does this, Search the non standard/(Domain only users) and show the services and name of the […]
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If you’re doing a Cross Forest migration project then you most likely have had a big experience but the more you do those kind of projects the more you’ll see different types of errors and issues rising up. One of the issues I had in one of the cross forest projects that I have done […]
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Active Directory / Powershell / Windows Server August 6, 2019
READ MOREIf you’re wondering which of your servers are using domain joined account or a non regular account like network service or system. You will need to go through every server’s service console and check that one by one but thanks to PowerShell this job was made like a piece of cake. The requirement to run […]
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Active Directory / DFS / FileServer / Storage December 15, 2018
READ MOREStarting: This article will guide you through the steps for Migrating your DFS mode from 2000 to 2008, in the same time we’ll migrate DFS Namespace servers from 2008 to 2016 but keep the folder targets and replication groups intact without any change This is a Microsoft summary about the process including my lab migration […]
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Active Directory / Certification Authority / Email / Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016 December 6, 2018
READ MOREHaving a certificate template that would last for years is a requirements that’s become more of a need during these days due to the amount of time it takes to renew the servers which are certificate dependent. Some servers would automatically be renewed their Certificate using GPO’s auto enrollment however when this doesn’t work or […]
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Active Directory / Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016 November 16, 2018
READ MORE23 May 2018 By Mohammed Hamada Exchange administrators go through hard times when servers crash, Reason of these crashes can vary but the result will most likely be a corrupted Database with dirty shutdown status. In my case as an Exchange Senior Consultant I came through many clients who have had power issues or an update that […]
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Using Powershell to copy Files between Joined Computers in a domain While doing projects sometimes you have to work with the GPO to copy certain files, scripts to apply certain commands on clients Computers however, The GPO’s File/Folder creation method takes long time to gets created and until replication through all clients is done you’ll […]