Managing User rights in SCCM 2007

When you want to give some users permission to manage you SCCM 2007 environment, you don’t want to give them full admin rights. With the ConfigMgr User Wizard, you can add users and specify the permissions for this users based on classes and instances. In this example i’ve added a new user with only permissions to read all the Packages. 1.) Open the System Center Management Console2.) Navigate to the Site Database, Security Rights, Users, Manage ConfigMgr Users3.) Add a new user, browse and select the new user4.) Select “Add another right or modify ...

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How to: Installing a Windows 2008 Read Only Domain Controller (RODC)

In this article I’m going to set up a Read Only Domain Controller in a Windows 2008 environment. There’s already a writable Domain Controller available in the domain GPO.LOCAL. The first step is to Install a new Windows 2008 Server, in my example it’s a Core Edition. After the installation, you can begin configuring your new server. – Enter the productkey:slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx – Activate Windows:slmgr.vbs -ato – Rename the computer:Netdom renamecomputer “%computername%” /newname:SRV-RODC01 /reboot:15 – Show all network interfaces:Netsh ...

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How to: Recovering Deleted AD Objects in Windows Server 2008 R2

A new nice feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 is the Active Directory Recycle Bin. Deleted items can be restored without rebooting the Domain Controller(s), restarting the Active Directory Services and even without any backuptapes!! Let’s have a look on that. The first step is to enable the Recycle Bin feature. Make sure your functional level is Windows Server 2008 R2 and keep in mind that when you enable this feature, you can’t disable this feature anymore!! 1.) Start the  Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShellImport-Module ActiveDirectory ...

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How to: Remove the “Network” from Windows Explorer in Windows 2008 R2

With the following registry key, you can remove the Network from Windows Explorer. Users cannot browse the network anymore. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum\{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}]=dword:00000001 ...

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Exchange 2007 mailbox size script V5

Maybe some of you now, Glen Scales has made a PowerShell script to view the mailbox sizes in an Exchange 2007 environment. You can download this script at his blog Script. It’s a great script, to overview the current mailboxsizes, items, growth history, quota used. Watch the screenshot below, to see the great script of scripting guru Glen ...

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Exchange 2007 Send Mailbox sizes with PowerShell

It could be verry usefull to receive a overview of all the mailbox sizes in your environments every day, week or month. You can see verry quickly when a users mailbox is growing to fast….The easiest way is to automate this, so i’ve made a PowerShell script to do this for me —————————————————–$body = Get-MailboxStatistics | sort-object -descending totalItemSize | ft DisplayName, @{expression={$_.totalitemsize.value.ToMB()};label=”Mailbox Size(MB)”}, itemcount, lastlogontime | out-string $From = “administrator@e2k7.local”$to = “m.swinkels@e2k7.local”$server ...

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ExInsight, free monitoring and statistics tool

ExInsight is a free monitoring and statistics tool for Exchange 2000/2003/2007 that provides a real-time view of the internals of Exchange Server transactions and allows you to evaluate individual user’s usage of Exchange Server. This tool is especially useful for Exchange administrators and developers. By using this tool, you can gather real-time data about the users in an Exchange environment and learn more about the inner workings of MAPI, OWA, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP and other protocols. ExInsight helps you to understand how individual users affect ...

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