Apr 06 2017
Windows Managed service accounts (MSA) appeared in Windows 2008 R2 Server. MSA provide dedicated accounts for each service without the hassle of managing password assignment or reset. Less management, more security.However, a single account cannot be used across multiple servers. This could lead to many service accounts within a domain but this is not a […]
Mar 21 2017
Powershell provides a “count” method that comes first to mind when you have to count lines, files or objects. I was astonished to observe PowerShell would display nothing when it should count 0 or 1. Here’s a screenshot where I retrieve the number of Active Directory accounts and showing count is unreliable. Instead use the Measure-Object […]
Oct 09 2015
You have configured in Exchange EAC (Exchange Admin Center) or with Powershell a retention policy that is supposed to clean up your deleted items for instance. But it does not apply to your mailboxes, nothing gets deleted. As suggested on Microsoft, the default policy is applied when you create an archive for the mailbox. But you’re […]
Sep 06 2015
System admins face more and more ever-growing directories storing auto-generated reports by scripts or scheduled tasks. Same goes to temp directories and nobody bother cleaning them up. But isn’t it our job too?Here are 2 simple scripts that can be run every so often to delete files older than say 30 days for instance in […]
Jul 11 2015
When I update Exchange 2013 Address Book (phone number or any other details), Outlook does not seem to get updated, even the next day. It does not seem to be a problem on the client side since it tries to get the latest address book updates from Exchange at regular intervals. You can workaround this […]