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Get Primary, Secondary, Tertiary DNS values and more from Multiple Servers
Came across a unique request to get primary, secondary, and tertiary DNS values for multiple computers/servers across the domain. I started writing…
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Get All DCs in the Entire Forest
Getting a know a new environment for a new client and I a quickly needed information about all domain controllers in the…
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Convert a Dynamic IP to Static
Working on a project where on some servers the DHCP assigned addresses needs to be converted to static. Since there is always…
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NSLookup still showing IP of demoted Domain Controller
So had an interesting issue today where a Domain Controller (DC) was demoted yet the IP of the demoted DC was still…
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Speed up Active Directory & DNS replication between Sites
Using the standard GUI Microsoft Management Consoles to make the change to speed up Active Directory replication is not possible. The best result of using administrator consoles will be…
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Resolve IP Addresses from List of Host Names
If you have a list of hostnames/servers that you need IP addresses for its cumbersome to ping each server and get the…
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Creating Security Groups for File Shares in Bulk using PowerShell
Security Groups are great for managing large groups for permissions. Â A client requested that they needed to have Read-Only, Read-Write, and Ready-Modify…
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Remove duplicates, blank lines, spaces, to get unique values and sort data in one operation
From time to time I come across this need; where I need to scrub a file where there are duplicates, there are…
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How to setup network after RHEL/CentOS 7 minimal installation
After installing RHEL/CentOS 7 minimal, You may not able to connect network in that machine. This will happen because Ethernet interfaces are…