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Who liked using the Active Directory Replication Status Tool? I did. Who thought it was a great, simple, straight forward tool that was far easier than interpreting the output of some command line tools and didn’t feel it needed to become a cloud service with a less intitive interface? I do. Digging through a few of my … Read more
Simple script inspired by this blog post. This script will read a servers.txt file located in the same directory as the script, check each server listed (one per line, use the servers FQDN) for mount points, see how much free space is available, compare it to a minimum amount you set and then e-mail an … Read more
We use SnapManager for Exchange and NetApp Single Mailbox Recovery to backup our Exchange 2010 environment. We’ve noticed that randomly our backups will fail with a verification error. The backups are still good and the failure usually happens 2-3 times in a row and then doesn’t happen again for a month. NetApp has a KB … Read more
We’ve got a Samba server running on a CentOS 6.7 server. As part of the CentOS 6.7 upgrade a new Samba package was also installed. The packages were specifically: samba-common-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 samba-winbind-clients-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 samba-client-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 samba4-libs-4.0.0-66.el6_6.rc4.x86_64 samba-winbind-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 samba-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 Our Samba server is tied into a Windows 2003 Domain and we use groups to provide access to the shares … Read more
We’re about to start a domain migration due to some applications we have tied into Active Directory and that we are taking a phased approach to migrating we have to have user objects active in the new domain while users are still logging into the old domain. We’ve disabled password expiry during the migration and … Read more