I recently need to check the DNS records for one of my customer’s DNS server. It’s more than 500+ records to verify that the ‘A’ and ‘PTR’ records are updated properly and which records are missing. Most of the online scripts I found only check for single PTR records. So finally, I need to get my hands dirty, spending a few hours in powershell to make a script the can verify the relationship between forward and reverse records in local or remote DNS servers. Continue reading “Find the Missing/Mismatch or Duplicate DNS Forward and Reverse Records”
Year: 2018
Updated v2.1: Create Users in New AD Domain with Old Users’ Domain Info
It is the updated version [v2.1] of the script that will create users in nested OU. If you do not know how to use this script, you can see here.
I made some update changes so users ‘Names’ do not need to be unique in domain level but only in each OU. Continue reading “Updated v2.1: Create Users in New AD Domain with Old Users’ Domain Info”
Create Users in New AD Domain with Old Users’ Domain Info
It has been nearly 2 years that I wrote the script to create new AD users with the automatic nested OU creation. The original idea is to create the users from the csv file in which AD users properties are defined. The script now supports extracting the current users and OU information from old domain and use in the new domain. The script will prompt for the new domain name & passwords (optional) to put in the csv file. Continue reading “Create Users in New AD Domain with Old Users’ Domain Info”
Install and Manage DNS Server Running on Nano Server
In this post, we will install DNS service on Nano Server and manage via the DNS Manager Console from other computer. If you want to create Nano Server Image GUI wizard, you can check out here. In our post we are going to create Nano Sever Image by the Nano Server Generator powershell script that comes with installation ISO.
There will be two Scenarios in our testing and you can just use either depending on your environment. Continue reading “Install and Manage DNS Server Running on Nano Server”
PowerCLI Script to List VM Snapshots with Last VM Reboot Time
Again, It’s time to script, making life easier with the system admin’s boring tasks. Most of us have testing environment in which we have to play with snapshots (so called checkpoints in Hyper-V).
This script will list the VMs snapshots with the last VM power-on time. This is particularly useful in cases where you want to keep the snapshot until the VM is rebooted and proved to be fully functional after any configuration changes. Continue reading “PowerCLI Script to List VM Snapshots with Last VM Reboot Time”
How to use PowerCLI to list Device ID, Mounted URL of Datastores in VMware
Here is the PowerCLI one-liner command to find the Datastore Name, Mounted URL and Device ID in your vSphere Environment.
Assume you’ve installed VMware PowerCLI. Continue reading “How to use PowerCLI to list Device ID, Mounted URL of Datastores in VMware”