The ramblings of a computer geek
Using powershell you can get the value of a specific attribute of a user. To do this run the below, this will get all the user objects in the OU called “Users” and display the samAccountName and extensionAttribute10 attribute.
So here is an example you want to set all the users in the OU called “Users” to have the extensionAttribute10 with the value “student” to do this you can run the below script:
In Exchange 2013 the message tracking log viewer has gone, you need to view the tracking logs from PowerShell. Here’s a basic command to make that happen: Okay this shows you the logs from a particular sender to a particular recipient and shows it in the GridView, this is a nice GUI type view with … Read more
After a successful Exchange 2013 migration, the old exchange 2010 object was left behind. When opening Exchange 2013 EAC under the “Servers” option, “Servers” tab, you can see it listed as a “provisioned server”. For some reason this is not removed from AD automatically when Exchange 2010 is uninstalled from the server, so you need … Read more
I’m in the middle of a migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 at the moment. All was going well until I repointed the DNS records to the Exchange 2013 CAS servers. In Exchange 2013 all client connectivity is now made using RPC over HTTPS (a.k.a Outlook Anywhere) unlike Exchange 2010 where only external clients … Read more
IPv6 is autoconfiguring, that’s great for worksations and mobile devices, but for servers you want some control. Yes you can hard code a static IPv6 address, but it will also show an autoconfiguration address too. You can disable the RA’s from the router, but in some cases you might not want to do this. So … Read more
You’ve just installed your new Exchange 2013 server but there is a mailbox already there with a default name e.g. “Mailbox Database 0100716264”, if you are like me you’ll want to get rid of that and create a nice new one in a more sensible location but if you try to delete it you’ll get … Read more
With the prevalence of mobile devices this is becoming more of a problem, you have a user who comes in every day and swears blind nothing has the wrong password, but something is locking them out. Here is how to fix it: Firstly you must ensure that you are logging the stuff correctly on your … Read more
PROBLEM: You can’t checkout a file because it says it is “locked by another user” or is “locked by <USERNAME>”, but from the SharePoint UI you can’t see who has it locked out or you can’t see that it has been locked out at all. SOLUTION: This is a big problem with SharePoint since 2003, … Read more
In our case, we were needing to remove some licences from some users, as we had an educational licence, the names of the service plans and licenses were a bit different. So we had two ways of doing it: 1 was just to remove the service plans we didn’t need. And the second was to … Read more