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Bulk Import User Photos into Active Directory.
Recently I was tasked to add photos to user accounts in AD. Manually doing hundreds of users is not an option so powershell to the rescue. This scripts looks at a path and directory, you can change the path and directory to suite your requirements. It goes and imports...
DPM 2012 SP1 Installation with SQL 2012 (Local)
DPM 2012 SP1 Installation with local SQL 2012 DB. Active Directory Setup: Create 2 groups, one for your DPM admins and one for SQL. Add the user account that is going to administer DPM and SQL to the groups you created above. Prerequisites List (DPM Server): Install...
Sharepoint 2013 SP1 & Server 2012 R2 Prerequisites Powershell Scripts
As with the RTM release of SharePoint 2013, Sharepoint 2013 SP1 has alot of prerequisites. This includes server features and additional EXE files that need to be installed before SharePoint will proceed with the install. I created 2x scripts and 1x txt file, they are...
Create new User in Active Directory 2012/Exchange 2013/Lync 2013 with Powershell V3.2
I created a script from multiple Technet sources that will allow an individual to work quicker and login to less servers and consoles. This script allows you to create a user in Active Directory, mailbox in Exchange 2013 and Enable the users Lync 2013 Account. It also...
Lync 2013 & APP Fabric logs
Recently SCOM starting reporting low disk space on my Lync Application Server. A server that had a couple of GB's free space suddenly had less than 1GB and Lync Clients were failing to login. I ran a cool utility call TreeSize and this identified the location and...
DPM Console shutting down with error 917 constantly
Environment: DPM 2012 R2 SP1 with Rollup 3 I had a protection group that didn't want to update and I went and remove the group but retained the data. Immediately after that I was presented with the following error: "Connection to the DPM service has been lost Review...
SCCM 2012 WSUS Sync Failed: The operation has timed out.
Today I went to check and download windows updates and I use a tool called the Configuration Manager Trace Log Tool to read the WSYNCMGR.LOG file. I noticed the sync started and then just hangs, after a while an error is presented: I went and checked the WSUS service...
User Profile Service stuck Stopping.
The User Profile Service is quite something...One day it will work and the next not. After the April 2014 CU for SharePoint 2013 my SharePoint Server User Profile service wouldn't start or stop. If I go to the Service Applications it is stuck in a stopping state. The...
Failed to connect to the configuration database when adding server to SharePoint 2013 farm
Today I installed a new SharePoint 2013 Server to add to my existing farm. I installed SQL and all the prerequisites for SharePoint, rebooted a couple of times. After all the installs I installed the April 2014 CU for SharePoint as the second server needs to match the...
SharePoint 2013 Upgrade Error
Today I ran the SharePoint 2013 April 2014 CU. The extraction and installation was successful. Upon running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard after the restart, PSCONFIG failed immediately on step 3 with the following error: This upgrade session has been stopped....