As opposed to other roles installation, a Windows Root CA installation is not a simple question of clicking next and finish buttons. Since the root CA will be offline most of the time, you can use a virtual machine. HOwever, please note that your hypervisor administrators must be considered as […]
Since the initial times of Windows 2003, things have changed. Restoring AD objects, including DNS Zones become simpler with each release of Windows Server. Therefore let’s see how you can restore users, computers, organizational units and DNS zones nowadays. Restoring AD objects for standard classes Since Windows 2008 R2, Get-ADObject […]
In a previous post, I’ve put a snippet using powershell to be able to list domain controllers forest-wide. Here’s a variation if you have some legacy Powershell 2.0, etc. The algorithm takes advantage of the ADSI inteface and the AD Searcher object instead of relying on some built-in powershell cmdlets. […]
In basic AD Powershell, when creating Organizational Units (OU), you are often referred to the New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet, which is fine if you must create one OU or multiple unrelated OUs, but recursive OU creation with Powershell can be verbose. If you must create multiple OUs which are child, child of […]
The Powershell ISE may not be your favorite editor because of its limitations (long to start, has issues with high-consuming parallel workflows). However its snippets you can insert with the CTRL+J shortcut may be worthwhile to have a look at. One is particularly interesting: the powershell function header template. The […]
As already mentioned in this post, Ola ‘s solution to backup your SQL Server databases is recognized as a easy-to-deploy, no stress, solution. You can easily build on top of it. Without installing any SQL cmdlet nor looking in the table the scripts produce, here is a solution to get […]
One of the drawbacks of using Express Editions of SQL Server is the lack of working SQL Agent Jobs. In particular when you are using Ola Hallengren’s excellent maintenance solution for backups and other maintenance tasks. His FAQ just suggests that you use sqlcmd to execute the stored procedures, but […]
