If you’re looking for some good FIM 2010 Resources to get your knowledge and skills up then the ones below are a good place to start. The training are excellent quality and the information is courtesy of Andrew Hill from… Read More ›
Technology
IT Camp: Private Cloud Event (20/04/2012)
For those interested in Microsoft Private Cloud solutions, Microsoft have been running a number of free IT Camps in Singapore to educate IT Pro’s on the different aspects. These sessions covered Datacentre Virtualization, Consumerization of IT and Building the Private… Read More ›
Free AD Object Recovery tool from Quest
Quest have a freeware tool for recovering deleted Active Directory Objects that can be found here: http://www.quest.com/object-restore-for-active-directory/ The tool allows you to view and reanimate Tombstoned objects from Windows 2003 onwards, without taking a DC offline. Remember that this is… Read More ›
Active Directory in Windows 8: First Look
I finally managed to get a first look at Active Directory in Windows 8 at the Community Technology Update event yesterday, run by the Singapore Windows User Group. Andrew Cheng (MVP) presented the session, his blog with a link to the… Read More ›
Singapore PowerShell User Group – Meet #5
It’s great that we’re now 5 meets in and running with great momentum. 24 people attended yesterdays session as we went through looping, do while, do until and other such flow controls, as well as PSObject. The PSObject stuff was useful… Read More ›
Singapore PowerShell User Group – Meet #5 Announced
Come and join us on 19th November at Microsoft for the next User Group Meet. Please find details at http://sgpowershellug.eventbrite.com
Singapore PowerShell User Group – Meet #4
On Saturday we ran our 4th successive meet for the user group. We’re a little bit off from our intended last Saturday of the month, but it’d due to a number of scheduling conflicts. In fact, the next meet will… Read More ›
Find accounts with home folders by naming convention.
I found myself doing this today, basically we have a number of account types (service accounts, resource accounts) that should not have home directories. however, due to incorrect provisioning choices they do. We wanted to identify these so we could… Read More ›
Singapore PowerShell User Group – Meet #4 Announced
For those who haven’t received the email, the PowerShell User Group meet #4 is now finalised as follows … Please find below the link to register for the next PowerShell User Group event. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2299447710 In this session we have guest speaker JD… Read More ›
Singapore PowerShell User Group Meet #3–Recapping the Basics
If you would like to sponsor the Singapore PowerShell User Group, please drop me an email at hitchy.it@gmail.com Today was the 3rd successive meet for the Singapore PowerShell User Group, a week later than it should have been but a… Read More ›
Quick and Dirty Mailbox Storage Quota updates with ActiveRoles and PowerShell
If you have a need to set a large number of mailbox storage quotas, it can be done quickly and easily with the Quest ActiveRoles cmdlets for Windows PowerShell. In my example below I am actually running the changes through… Read More ›
PowerShell Functions Template – Adams AD Admin Blog
I recently stumbled across an old post on Adams AD Admin blog (http://adadmin.blogspot.com/) that I wanted to share. I thought this was a great template for PowerShell Functions and I have actually just adopted it for my own functions. Find… Read More ›
@Thiyagu84 Enables you to Parse Email Headers with PowerShell
I just wanted to share some links to Scripting Guy blog posts made by my Singapore PowerShell User Group colleague, Thiyagu (twitter @Thiyagu84, blog http://www.myexchangeworld.com). Using ShowUI and PowerShell he has developed a tool to parse Email headers that can… Read More ›
MCITP Enterprise Administrator Study Guides Updated
Anyone studying for the Windows 2008 MCITP certifications may have found that the study guides have been updated. You may also have heard nothing about it and be surprised by this! So just in case, here are the new versions… Read More ›
Singapore PowerShell User Group – Event #2 writeup
Singapore PowerShell User Group – http://powershellgroup.org/singapore On Saturday 27th August 2011 we held the second Singapore PowerShell User Group meet. Unfortunately, it coincided with the Singapore election day but 26 people were still in attendance which was great. Thiyagu (@Thiyagu84) presented once… Read More ›
PowerShell User Group meeting #2 – 27th August 2011
The emails are doing the rounds now but I have great pleasure in announcing the second event for Singapore PowerShell User Group is planned for Sat 27th August 2011, 10am-12pm at Microsoft as before. You can find the slide deck… Read More ›
Singapore Powershell User Group – First event writeup
On Saturday 30th July we held the first Singapore Powershell User Group meeting. After the overwhelming sign up online we had 37 people attend of which most were beginners with Powershell, I think it is fair to say that by… Read More ›
Expanding the help for your ActiveRoles users
One of the most useful things about ActiveRoles is the customisation that’s possible through the web portal. From creating customised wizards for different account types to buttons that run scripts, there is a lot you can do to make the… Read More ›
ActiveRoles and PowerGUI Videos
Someone asked me yesterday for ActiveRoles CBT’s and if any were available. As far as I know, there are none, but there are some good videos on YouTube, demo’d by Bob Bobel, the Product Manager (see link on my Blogroll). … Read More ›
Migrating deprovision information in ActiveRoles Server
When you upgrade your ActiveRoles platform, rather than upgrade in place, you may choose to deploy the new version to new servers and switch your users over. At the same time, you may also choose to create a new set… Read More ›
Singapore Powershell User Group – First Event
I’m pleased to announce the first event is now official and you can register for it here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1893496499 The speaker for this event on 30th July will be @Thiyagu84, who will be starting us off with the Powershell Basics. If… Read More ›
Powershell User Group Singapore
We are gaining momentum for our Powershell User Group for Singapore. Myself and @Thiyagu (Twitter and http://www.myexchangeworld.com) are on the way to having one established. We are working on community affiliation, we have interest from Microsoft Singapore and Quest Singapore in… Read More ›
Renaming Active Directory Groups in Bulk with Powershell and ActiveRoles Server
I said I was going to be blogging Powershell stuff and this is the first post. The most important thing for me to point out is that I am a complete Powershell and scripting newbie, so when I get the… Read More ›
