WordPress: How To create a Custom Block with Series Links

Introduction As you write a series of blogs in WordPress you usually want to add links to the entire series to each blog. This helps the reader locate and quickly move from one part of a series to the next or skip around if desired. You can install a plugin that helps you do series … Continue reading WordPress: How To create a Custom Block with Series Links →

Active Directory Based Activation (ADBA) Fails with Error: 0x8007202B

Introduction I was working with a customer recently who could not get clients or servers at a new remote site to activate using Active Directory Based Activation (ADBA). They were getting event ID 8214 as in the image below. Notice in the above where I bold the computer name Client1.Child1.Contoso.local. This means that Client1 is … Continue reading Active Directory Based Activation (ADBA) Fails with Error: 0x8007202B →

PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup – Part 4 – Unsupported Windows Operating Systems

Introduction Welcome to part 4 in my Active Directory Cleanup Series. This part is concentrated on pulling a report of Windows Operating Systems that are obsolete/unsupported. Using this report you can review them and decide if they should be removed or upgraded. Script 1: Long 1 liner. The following script was posted on one of … Continue reading PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup – Part 4 – Unsupported Windows Operating Systems →

PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup – Part 3 – Stale Computer Objects

Introduction Hello everyone. Part 3 in my AD Cleanup series is stale computer objects. Stale computer objects are computers that haven't logged into the domain for a specified number of days. This script includes a NumberOfDays parameter that either you specify when calling the script or it defaults to 120 days during script execution. The … Continue reading PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup – Part 3 – Stale Computer Objects →

PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup – Part 2 – Spacey Computer Names

Introduction Hello again, Scott Williamson back with the next installment in the series "PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup". For this installment we going to take a look at a script that finds computers that have a space in their name. Per RFC 1123 DNS host names cannot contain white space (blank) in their names. This is … Continue reading PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup – Part 2 – Spacey Computer Names →

PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup – Part 1 – Duplicate Computers

Introduction Hello World, Scott Williamson Senior Premier Field Engineer here. As a PFE, I frequently work with customers who ask how to cleanup Active Directory of old objects and data. To assist them in automating cleanup I have written several PowerShell scripts, functions, and workflows that I want to share in this blog series. Duplicate … Continue reading PowerShell: Active Directory Cleanup – Part 1 – Duplicate Computers →