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Automatically re-configure secondary Bind server to primary

Automatically re-configure secondary Bind server to primary With this script, you will able to re-configure a DNS server running on Bind9 from a secondary to a primary role : For “secondary”, I talk about the server that hosts the slave

Get server hostnames on which MSSQLServer service is installed

Get server hostnames on which MSSQLServer service is installed With this simple script, you will be able to get the server names on which the MS SQL Server service is installed. First, an array is built with the computer names

Monitor a resource failover on a cluster

This script will help you to monitor a resource failover on a cluster. This script has been successfully tested on a Microsoft cluster running on a Windows Server 2012 operating system. The following steps are performed : use the following

Create DNS PTR record if A record exists

Create DNS PTR record if A record exists. This script will help you to have a DNS PTR record for each existing A record in your DNS zone. If a A record has been created in the DNS zone ($dnsDomainName

Set the PwdLastSet attribute to the current date and time

This script will help you to set the PwdLastSet attribute to the current date and time for multiple users. The user list in this script is built from an organizational unit content. You can adapt it with your own requirement.

Add a SNMP permitted manager on remote hosts

This script will help you to Add a SNMP permitted manager on remote hosts. In this example the hostname of the SNMP permitted manager is : snmpmgr01. The remote hosts name are listed in a text file (one hostname per

Delete folders on remote hosts

This script will help you to delete folders on remote hosts. The folder names in the example are like $NtUninstallKB* and are located on the remote system admin$ shares. The remote computers are listed on the file C:\temp\BOOK1.txt Script :

Change the user UPN

This script will help you to change the user UPN (userPrincipalName attribute in the Active Directory) for all the user objects located in the OU OU=Users,OU=Dept,DC=domain,DC=local,DC=net Old UPN : domain.local.net New UPN : newdomain.com To setup a new UPN, follow

Show text/config file without comment lines

Show text/config file without comment lines (#): alias nocomment=’grep -Ev ‘\”^(#|$)’\”’ nocomment /etc/squid.conf Source Reference Man Grep NAME grep, egrep, fgrep – print lines matching a pattern SYNOPSIS grep [options] PATTERN [FILE…] grep [options] [-e PATTERN | -f FILE] [FILE…]

Disable and move inactive computer accounts

This script will help you to disable and move inactive computer accounts to a target OU in the Active Directory. The steps are the following : list all computer accounts inactive for more than 90 days ping each inactive computers