I spent sometime today renaming SharePoint 2013 Servers for a project I was pulled in on. It involved using PowerShell cmdlets and other administrative tasks. The project required me to “Clone” SharePoint farm servers to make template environments for demonstration and development task. I originally followed steps provided here: Renaming SharePoint then later streamlined the process so its […]
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Using Windows task scheduler you can schedule power off and on events for guest systems running in VMware vCenter or a standalone ESXi host. My steps: Create a basic task – give it a name and description (optional) Choose when you want this task to stat Select the start date and time Choose “Start a […]
Friday, April 10, 2015 By now we are aware that Windows 8 has the ability to mount .ISO files. But what happens when one day you go to click on that .ISO file and the mount option is missing. This is what happened to me. To fix this little problem the following steps were followed: […]
How can I take on this task, let me count the ways… After installing a new certificate on our Lync server I needed to restart the services to complete the change. I was able to do this with two powershell commands. Stop Services Get-CsWindowsService | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”} | Stop-CsWindowsService Start Services Get-CsWindowsService | […]
A quick task on the Lync server where I needed to list running services. Indeed I could do this in the services panel using services.msc but this time I wanted to play in powershell. By typing the following I could list all running services that pertains to Lync Get-CsWindowsService | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”} ref: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398803.aspx
I had mentioned in a previous post about the inability to self service groups. Problem: on-premises distribution group is synced to a Microsoft Office 365 organization through Active Directory synchronization, migrated users who are owners of the distribution group can’t manage it in Microsoft Exchange Online Solution: Use the Exchange Tools (But we no longer […]