Restoring a SQL Server backup to Amazon RDS
RDS (Relational Database Service) RDS (Relational Database Service) is Amazon’s SQL Server as a service solution, much like Microsoft Azure DB. In fact, it is more generic, you can choose… Read more »
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Microsoft Exchange 2010 to 2016 Migrations Steps
Exchange 2016 Pre-Requisites Installation Open Elevated PowerShell Command Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Server-Media-Foundation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing,… Read more »
SQL Query to Generate DB and LOG File Size Report
SELECT DB_NAME(db.database_id) DatabaseName, (CAST(mfrows.RowSize AS FLOAT)*8)/1024 RowSizeMB, (CAST(mflog.LogSize AS FLOAT)*8)/1024 LogSizeMB, (CAST(mfrows.RowSize AS FLOAT)*8)/1024/1024+(CAST(mflog.LogSize AS FLOAT)*8)/1024/1024 DBSizeG, (CAST(mfstream.StreamSize AS FLOAT)*8)/1024 StreamSizeMB, (CAST(mftext.TextIndexSize AS FLOAT)*8)/1024 TextIndexSizeMB FROM sys.databases db LEFT… Read more »
Default Computer OU Redirection in Active Directory
Redirects the default container for newly created computers to a specified, target organizational unit (OU) so that newly created computer objects are created in the specific target OU instead of… Read more »
Create Active Directory Bulk Users from CSV
Create Active Directory Bulk Users from CSV It might not be common for every server administrator to need to import a large number of users at once. However, if you do,… Read more »
How to download office 2016 by deployment tool
How to download office 2016 by deployment tool? Download Office Deployment Tool http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=49117 (office 2016) 2. Create a folder in C drive, we named it ODT here, run Office Deployment Tool… Read more »
Power-Shell script to do changes of UPNs for all users
The following example PowerShell script to do changes of UPNs for all users except the admin account replacing the domain name by the onmicrosoft.com addresses and redirects output to a… Read more »
SCCM 2012 R2 – Serial No as Computer Name in OSD
In this post we’ll be renaming the computer based on Serial Number. First we need to determine what computer model the OS is being deployed on. Secondly we want to… Read more »
Active Directory Health Check Script
Active Directory Health Check Script (Batch) How do you know the health status of your Active Directory? Till the time of user complaints about any issues related to Active Directory… Read more »
Restoring a Mailbox from an Exchange Server 2013 Recovery Database
1. PowerShell Command to Create Recovery Database on Exchange 2013. New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery -Name “[databasename] – Recovery” -Server[servername] -EdbFilePath “R:\[databasename] – Recovery\[databasename] – Recovery.edb” -LogFolderPath “R:\[databasename] – Recovery” Example New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery… Read more »