The ramblings of a computer geek
So you have the box at the top, this confuses our users, so we need to remove it. To do this you can just use a simple script on the front page. 1. Edit the front page and add the “Script Editor” web part. 2. Give it a suitable name, and then enter the following … Read more
You want to change the size of the search box web part, this is fairly straight forward when you know how. 1. Firstly get the name/ID of the search box. Open your SharePoint front page, right click in the search box and select “inspect element”, then in the Developer box you should see the search … Read more
To create a CSR and include not only a CN (Common Name) but also a SAN(s) too, you can use the following process. 1. Firstly create a text file called request.inf and fill it with the following: 2. Now run this command to create a CSR: You can check it has the right info here: … Read more
If you’re like us you still have old legacy applications that use POP3 for various things. On Exchange 2013 the way POP3 works has changed slightly. Now you access a POP3 mailbox via the CAS servers that proxy you to the mailbox on the Mailbox role server(s). Our application only supports plain text authentication, but … Read more
There’s some basic tasks which are good to automate, to save you some time, you can configure them to run as a scheduled task. First step is to create a user account to run the scripts, this account should have access to change Exchange and change Active Directory, lets call the account: exchangeserviceuser. To run … Read more
So you are moving from Pcounter to another printing system, but you want to export your users balances to export them to another system. To do this find the account.exe file within your Pcounter directory and run this command: ACCOUNT BACKUP <DOMAIN> Where the <DOMAIN> is your domain name (NetBIOS) name of the domain. This … Read more
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
Sometimes a tape will be marked as suspect, seemingly for no reason. To resolve this you need to do the follow these instructions to first identify the MediaID of the suspect tape against its Barcode. Then mark it as normal (i.e. not suspect). Ensure there is a backup of the SQL database for DPM. In … Read more