How to save a user picture in Active Directory with vbScript?
Active Directory offers the possibility to save pictures in a user’s object. These pictures can then be used in Outlook, Sharepoint or even self-written applications. Here is how you can do it:...
View ArticleHow to display Active Directory stored user account pictures in Windows?
This topic is little more complex and we’ll need different steps to accomplish this feature. First at all you need the pictures for your user objects in the directory. You can use ADSI Edit, Powershell...
View ArticleHow to display user pictures in Outlook, Sharepoint & Co. using Active...
Newer versions of Sharepoint, Outlook or Office Communicator support showing small user pictures in new mails, contact information or websites using data stored in a user’s object in Active Directory....
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How to manage GPOs with vbScript?
You can do really really cool stuff with gpos in vbScript. I will show you how to export reports and give you some examples what else can be done going the vbScript way… The Group Policy Management...
View ArticleRestore deleted computer object including BitLocker recovery information
Recovery of Active Directory objects became much easier with the introduction of AD recycle bin feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Simply use the restore-adobject PowerShell cmdlet and you’re done. But...
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Strange behavior with Data Protection Manager End User Recovery feature or not?
I recently activated the End User Recovery feature of Data Protection Manager 2012. I did the schema extension – which by the way added a ms-BackupSrv-Share attribute a ms-ProductionSrv-Share attribute...
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How to avoid Windows 7 language choice dialog in multilanguage image...
This is just a quick review of a forum post at Microsoft System Center Forums because of a question that a reader of my website had (see the comments). The initial problem was as following: I’m using...
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The way through Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 upgrade
Yesterday I installed SP1 on my DPM 2012 server – see the screenshots below. The setup itself was ok, but the problems began when updating the protection agents on Windows Server 2012 systems. Welcome...
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System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager: Datawarehouse configuration failed...
While installing Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager I got following error: In the log I could see that Setup could not create the Datawarehouse database: EXEC(@sql);: Threw...
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Ambiguous Name Resolution (ANR) for LDAP
What is ANR? Ambiguous Name Resolution (ANR) is an efficient search algorithm associated with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) clients that allows for objects to be bound without complex...
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How to recover data from a deleted, BitLocker enabled partition? – 2017 Edition
In the mid of 2013 I wrote a post about recovering a deleted, BitLocker enabled Partition using Windows Server 2012. Back then the state of the art encryption method was AES 128. Now that we got...
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An error occurred while attempting to connect to a Hyper-V server
While setting up a new Hyper-V failover cluster I got an error when trying to connect using the Hyper-V manager console: An error occurred while attempting to connect to server “[computername]”. Check...
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Microsoft stops MCM, MCSM and MCA trainings and certifications
According to an email I (and probably all other current MCMs) received this morning around 7 am (MEST) from Shelby Grieve (Director, Certification Product Management) states that “Microsoft will no...
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Datenschutzerklärung Geltungsbereich Diese Datenschutzerklärung klärt Nutzer über die Art, den Umfang und Zwecke der Erhebung und Verwendung personenbezogener Daten durch den verantwortlichen Anbieter...
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Neue Serie: SmartHome
Wer meinen Blog kennt, wird sich jetzt wundern. Zum einen ist dies der erste Beitrag in deutscher Sprache und zum anderen geht es mal um etwas ganz anderes: SmartHome. Irgendwann vor 10 Jahren (mehr...
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ioBroker unter Windows installieren
Ich möchte in diesem Beitrag gar nicht darauf eingehen, was ioBroker ist oder tut. Es soll nur darum gehen, ioBroker unter Windows zu installieren und zum Schluss eine laufende Instanz zu haben....
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The system cannot find the file specified error while enabling Bitlocker
After buying a new harddrive, disabling bitlocker on the old one, moving the data to the new one and booting the system I wanted to re-enable Bitlocker. But all I got after running manage-bde -on c:...
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How to get the ‘real’ last logon time of an Active Directory user
Yes, Active Directory provides details on when an active directory user last logged on. However, in a multi domain controller environment it may be tricky to get this information. If you’re on a single...
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How to batch-handle mounted media with SCVMM managed VMs
When remediating Hyper-V clusters with System Center Virtual Machine Manager it sometimes happens that there are still isos mounted to virtual dvd drives and that, therefore, vms cannot be live...
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