Author Archives: VirtuallyAware

Introducing AI.VirtuallyAware.com for IT Professionals

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of ai.virtuallyaware.com. We will explore the AI phenomenon from both an evaluative and technical perspective, while highlighting its common use cases that will empower IT professionals like never before. Evaluating We are … Continue reading

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Active Directory Scripting Highlight: Test Basic Network Connectivity with PowerShell

Throughout my work with domain migrations, there are inevitably some very basic steps before getting deep into User attributes, Groups, Computers, and the myriad of ways that client applications use Active Directory that need to be transitioned to a new … Continue reading

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Active Directory Scripting Highlight: Identify and Move Active Directory Operations Master Roles with PowerShell

Getting your bearings and knowing everything you can about a Forest/Domain you are migrating is key.  Which domain controllers in the Forest and Domains hold the Operation Masters roles is one of those important details as you modify or decommission … Continue reading

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Active Directory Script Highlight: Simple HTML Export of all Group Policy Object Details

So once you have cleaned up your group policies like I outlined in my last two Active Directory Scripts Highlights,  what’s next? In this article I have a couple of variations of  scripts using the Get-GPOReport cmdlet that will allow … Continue reading

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Active Directory Script Highlight: Group Policy Object Cleanup and Efficiency

Going a step further from the previous post with a little more detail, the script below adds of GPOStatus, and version increment number for Computer and Users section for each Group Policy. Get-GPO -All | Sort GPOStatus | Format-Table Displayname, … Continue reading

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Active Directory Script Highlight: Pre-Migration Group Policy Inventory and Cleanup

Todays Active Directory cleanup topic looks at Group Policy Objects.  In most of the environments I have prepared for migrations, old Group Policy objects are another problem area that should be cleaned up before an Active Directory migration. In many … Continue reading

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Active Directory Script Highlight: Identify Old Computer Objects Before AD Migrations

In the last of my Active Directory cleanup post, I have given you some options to identify, disable, and move User objects based on a certain time of inactivity.  In this post I am going to give you some simple … Continue reading

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Spectre/Meltdown Update: Haswell and Broadwell Processors Now Have The Production Go Ahead From Intel

Both Dell and HP have released System ROMs to protected against the Spectre variant 2 vulnerabity for their Haswell and Broadwell line of servers which encompasses most of the PowerEdge 13G line and the HP Gen9 server lines.  Last week … Continue reading

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HP Gen10/Skylake-SP Servers now have a new System ROM available for Spectre Vulnerability.

HP has released key System ROMs for their Proliant Gen10 servers to mitigate Variant 2 vulnerabilities for Spectre.  See the release notes HERE Explanation of different Variants of the Spectre/Meltdown Vulnerabilities from HP’s article (Release Microcode pertains to Variant 2): … Continue reading

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Active Directory Script Highlight: Disable and Move Users Who Have Not Logged on In 180 Days

In my last post I showed a simple script to identify users that have not logged on in the last 180 days and export basic information to a CSV file.  This allowed you to look through the list and determine … Continue reading

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