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PowerShell: Add printers to DNS

  • March 8th, 2010
  • Posted in technology

I realized today that most of our printers at work did not have DNS entries. This isn’t a big problem for users because they’re on our print server and they get their printers through Group Policy. The Print server has each printer set up to the IPs. We just implemented a management system today, and [ READ MORE ]

Fixing IT problems with a hammer

  • November 20th, 2009
  • Posted in technology

In a continuing process of cleaning up horrible decisions by our predecessors, we just moved a website off one of our domain controllers. The website was moving from IIS6 to 7 (or 7.5, whatever comes with Server 2008 R2), and it required some tweaking to start working again. One of the parts that didn’t work [ READ MORE ]

One line administration – search and delete computer accounts

  • May 6th, 2009
  • Posted in technology

Here’s a quick one-line script I’ve been using to clean up some old computer accounts in active directory. It requires the dsquery and dsrm tools from the Server 2003 Admin Pack or the Remote Server Administration Toolkit. @for /f %%a in ('DSQUERY COMPUTER -NAME *%1') do (dsrm %%a) Save that in as a batch file and it’ll [ READ MORE ]

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