Working with many Office365 clients, I receive queries on how to go about provisioning users and mailboxes for an Exchange hybrid deployment. To begin with, let’s assume a couple things. We have a Windows 2012 R2 member server with Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) version 1.1.105.00 (or newer) and the Azure AD Module for PowerShell installed;…
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Create A Dedicated Account To Join Computers To A Domain
Admins often need to automate things, like creating a dedicated account for joining machines to an Active Directory (AD) domain. Â This is useful for things like System Center Configuration Manger task sequences and System Center Virtual Machine Manager templates or similar needs. First create a standard Windows user account. Â Next, right-click on the Computers Organization…
Create a Virtual Machine with 2 NICs in Azure Classic
Unfortunately, in Azure you cannot create a Virtual Machine in the GUI with 2 Network Cards. You cannot even add a 2nd NIC to a VM once it has been created. The only way to create a VM with 2, is to specify the additional NIC’s at the time of creation and ONLY via powershell….
Active Directory: Changing passwords for users in bulk using a .csv file
Many accounts in your AD might need a password change. What if you want to do this in bulk ? First, we need to the userlist. Depending on your requirements we need to get a list of users (specifically samaccountname). For random password generation I recommend using http://manytools.org/network/password-generator/ as it can generate up 1000 for…