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Moving and Renaming objects in Active Directory

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I went to move some AD objects with PowerShell recently, and realised that I didn’t have any examples to hand. Despite covering AD permission delegation and GPO operations, I’d somehow missed the fairly obvious task of moving and renaming objects!
So this seemed like a good time fix that …
We need to bind to some [...]

Windows 2003 DNS Server rights issue

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Apparently there is a permissions issue regarding hosting DNS zones in the ForestDNSZones, or DomainDNSZones partitions in Server 2003. I haven’t looked to see if this has been resolved in 2008. The issue and solution is detailed in Microsoft KB939090.

This issue occurs because of the permissions that are set in the Active Directory directory service….
The [...]

Dynamically populating user properties in Active Directory

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Recently I was asked to help out with a small issue pertaining to rolling out MS Live Communications Server. Two SIP properties (msRTCSIP-LineServer & msRTCSIP-Line) on the user object in AD were set dependent on which office the user was located in, and their Direct Dial (DDI) number. These properties needed to be set on [...]

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