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  • How To Create Users and Login in Cisco Router Or Switch

    How To: This Guide will show you how to create a new user account on your Cisco Router\switch. By doing this you can grant access to other administrators and monitor changes made on the device. Solution: In order to make this work we need to follow two steps: 1.    Create a new account 2.    Configure…

  • You do not have sufficient privileges to delete OU, or this object is protected from accidental deletion

    Windows Server 2008 has a new feature to protect OU from accidental deletion. if you try to delete an OU which was marked with the special protection option you will get the following error message when trying to delete the object: “You do not have sufficient privileges to delete OUNAME, or this object is protected…

  • How To Setup Banner display On A Cisco Router \ Switch

    How To: On Cisco Routers and Switches we have the option to set up a banner display when people log in to the device. Solution: To setup welcome banner on a cisco device we need to use the banner command: Banner Command: switch(config)#banner ? LINE            c banner-text c, where ‘c’ is a delimiting character config-save    …

  • Connect To A Remote Server Console When All Session Are Used

    Sometimes when a few administrators logs on the the same server the server is maxed out all sessions. When this happens we need to log off the idle sessions, however we can also just connect to the server console session and log of the inactive sessions. to do so, go to start -> Run and…

  • How To Set Group Policy To log Off Remote Desktop Session

    In order to make the servers log of idle RDP session automaticity using group policy we need edit the group policy that the servers are using. Under the Local Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services\Sessions folder, the following settings can be made: • Set time limit for disconnected sessions • Set time limit for active…

  • Check and Auto Refresh Exchange Server Mail Queue Using Exchange Shell

    Ever since I started using Exchange Shell I wanted to write a script that check the Exchange server mail queue using Exchange shell and auto refresh theresult So today I manged to get it done. All you need to do is run it from your PC. Save the script as .ps1 and change the server…

  • How To Assign Mailbox Permission In Exchange 2007 Using The Shell

    In order to grant a user read access permission to other user mailbox we need to use the: Add-mailboxpermission cmdlet in Exchange 2007 Shell In this example I’ll give User A, a read access permission to User B mailbox. [PS] C:\>Add-MailboxPermission -Identity “UserA” -AccessRights readpermission –user “UserB” We can also assign the following permission with…

  • Microsoft PowerShell Command Guide – Part 1

    As PowerShell become more and more important tool in our day to day administration I have put up most of the basic commands that are being used by administrators and engineers. Part 1 will give cover the basic commands and what they are doing. Part 1 Terms Cmdlets – command built into PowerShell Get command…

  • How To Set Session Timeout On A Cisco Router

    Setting the session timeout parameter in a cisco router or switch is an easy task that will make your day to day work easy. How to set the session timeout: log on to the router and type: router#configure t router(config)#line vty 0 4 router(config-line)#session-timeout 10       —- 10 is the amount of minutes we want…

  • Create New User \ Mailbox Script Using Exchange 2007 Shell

    With Exchange 2007 we have the option to manage our Exchange Server using the Exchage Managment shell which done using commands (cmdlts). This script is for creating a single user mailbox and an AD user using the shell. The script called newuser.ps1 Just copy and save the file as newuser.ps1 and don’t forget to change…

  • How To Print Screen In RDP Session

    In order to print screen a window in an RDP session we need to use a different keys than the ones we use on our local desktop. To print screen in RDP session please use: CTRL+ALT+MINUS (–) symbol on the numeric keypad.

  • How To restart WSUS Service

    A few people have asked me where they can find the WSUS service in the Windows Server Services list in order to restart it.

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