While writing and testing script Active Directory Powershell: Create bulk users from CSV file, Simulating single user creation I came across an error. This error says.
New-ADUser : A value for the attribute was not in the acceptable range of values
At line:1 char:1
+ New-ADUser -Name TestUser -PasswordNotRequired $true -path 'ou=new,dc ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Series Parts
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…
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Thanks David for comments, Please use 3 of the article links mentioned here, I use same steps for configuring my Production, but never found any issue, let me know if you are still facing issue.
Thanks, for pointing it out, Although it is a old post, but I remembered I modified actual New-NanoServerImage module for some expermental purpose. And these screenshots are result of same,
I will edit this article soon, Thanks again.
I don't know how you got your printscreens but the New-NanoServerImage is Package without the S at the end.
Your command will fail.
New-NanoServerImage : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Packages'.
At line:5 char:11
+ -Packages 'Microsoft-Nanoserver-Compute-Package', 'Microsof ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-NanoServerImage], ParameterBindingExcepti
on
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,New-NanoServerImage
Hello,
I followed your instruction - but when I've tried to connect to the external DB I got the following error:
"The user associated with the DSN has insufficient privileges. Please provide sufficient privileges for the user by granting the user the following permission:
*VIEW SERVER STATE
*VIEW ANY DEFINITION
*VIEW ANY DEFINITION
*SELECT msdb..sysjobs
etc
Thanks Pete.