Creating bulk multiple user accounts on Active Directory Users and Computers mmc console is very boring and tough task also it is most of the time consuming and error prone tend to be lots of mistakes. If same task is done using automation it will be interesting and happen in less time. Active directory Powershell is best way to automate the task of importing users from excel file.
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Active Directory Powershell: Create bulk users from CSV file
August 19, 2017 11:00PM
Different ways to bypass Powershell execution policy :.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled
August 19, 2017 03:12PM
By default PowerShell scripts ps1 extension files are restricted to execute on windows system (For windows 2016 it is by default remotesigned), Generally whenever you run ps1 file you will see below error on Powershell console. This is not the authentication issue instead no one can execute ps1 files even administrator. To run script first need to make changes on OS, even if there is single line i…
VMWare Powercli: Time Configuration (NTP - Network Time Protocol) on multiple Esxi server
August 16, 2017 05:01PM
This blog is related to my earlier blog vSphere ESXi security best practices: Time configuration - (NTP) Network Time Protocol, This is Powercli part of same article. Login into vCenter server, For more details check VMWARE VSPHERE POWERCLI INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION STEP BY STEP.
To add ntpserver on esxi server run below command, For adding multiple NTP addresses, run same command with d…
vSphere ESXi security best practices: Time configuration - (NTP) Network Time Protocol
August 15, 2017 02:09PM
By default NTP - Network time protocol service is disabled on esxi server. ESXi servers always should be configured with NTP for below reasons.
Logs: Very first good reason is logs (events, /var/log). If your Esxi is not synchronized with Time server correctly, Details in logs will show incorrect dates and there will be hard time in finding or troubleshooting issues.
Snapshot creation: If your…
Powershell one liner: Create multiple user accounts
August 9, 2017 10:44PM
I had an opportunity to teach PowerShell Active Directory basics to some of my junior subordinate, Where I wanted them to show few test cases on creating multiple active directory user accounts, After building active directory from scratch, As this was the demo example lab, accounts created running below one liner, I can create n number of user accounts in one shot, without wasting any time. Once…
Powershell: Change DNS IP addresses remotely on multiple computers using CIM & WMI
August 2, 2017 08:05PM
Although I had written this script around 4 years back I have again revised it to work it in more better way with status report on console. I used this script again after long time to change/update DNS ip addresses on remote Windows servers, after introducing my new upgraded DNS servers. Same task I performed but this time to replace DNS ips on an average 6000 remote windows servers. As it can b…
POWERCLI AND VSPHERE WEB CLIENT: JOIN ESXI INTO ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN CONTROLLER
July 26, 2017 09:22AM
This is another best security guideline to always join Esxi server into domin, most preferable is Active Directory domain controller, One of the advantage is I can use domain-wide authentication with Domain joined ESXi, Means I don't have to use or share root or any local username to login, Creating local username and maintaining it will be tedious job on Esxi, Users can login with there own eleva…
VMWARE SECURITY BEST PRACTICES: POWERCLI ENABLE OR DISABLE ESXI SSH
July 25, 2017 09:14AM
Logging into SSH required in some of the common troubleshooting scenario or fetching information: ie checking logs, telnet, ping, esxtop etc, Although subject title of this blog is mentioned Powercli, but I am showing all ways to enable SSH service on esxi including GUI as well, By default SSH server service is disabled on ESXi, VMware recommends the same for security best practices reason. For m…
POWERCLI: VIRTUAL MACHINE STORAGE MIGRATE/SVMOTION AND DATASTORE PORT BINDING MULTIPATHING
July 20, 2017 08:45AM
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MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2012 R2 ISCSI TARGET STORAGE SERVER FOR ESXI AND HYPERV
POWERSHELL INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING MICROSOFT ISCSI TARGET SERVER
VMWARE ESXI CONFIGURE (VSWITCH) VMKERNEL NETWORK PORT FOR ISCSI STORAGE
POWERCLI: VMWARE ESXI CONFIGURE (VSWITCH) VMKERNEL NETWORK PORT FOR ISCSI STORAGE
VMWARE ESXI INSTALL AND CONFIGURE SOFTWARE ISCSI STORAGE ADAPTER FOR VMFS VERSION 6…
VMWARE VCENTER STORAGE MIGRATE/SVMOTION VM AND PORT BINDING MULTIPATHING TESTING
July 18, 2017 09:02AM
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MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2012 R2 ISCSI TARGET STORAGE SERVER FOR ESXI AND HYPERV
POWERSHELL INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING MICROSOFT ISCSI TARGET SERVER
VMWARE ESXI CONFIGURE (VSWITCH) VMKERNEL NETWORK PORT FOR ISCSI STORAGE
POWERCLI: VMWARE ESXI CONFIGURE (VSWITCH) VMKERNEL NETWORK PORT FOR ISCSI STORAGE
VMWARE ESXI INSTALL AND CONFIGURE SOFTWARE ISCSI STORAGE AD…