Mike Shellenberger's blog

Needed to setup fine grained password policies for the first time today.  Used the following TechNet article to guide me through the setup: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754461%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

I wrote the following powershell script to assist in carving out new Exchange 2010 tenants for additional child domains in our Exchange forest.  The script provisions mailbox databases, adds database copies to our DAG hosts, creates separate address lists, global address lists, address book policies, and sets up delegated administration.  Prior to running the script…

Ever find yourself in the situation where you need to restore an accidentally deleted user account but your backup software only allows for entire system state restores?  I did today and I found out about a really nice freebie tool to retrieve tomb stoned AD objects.  It’s called “Object Restore for Active Directory” by Quest…

I recently had a scenario where I needed to separate global address lists for two different organizations hosted on the same Exchange 2010 environment.  Each organization was configured as a child-domain of the forest hosting Exchange. Create a new global address list from the Exchange Management Shell.  You cannot create global address lists from the…

Change your video driver to the one located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video\ and reboot.  This works for all flavors of Windows Server 2008 R2 from what I’ve read.

I recently experienced an issue with enabling Direct Access for child domains.  I have a root domain with several child domains.  My Direct Access servers are located in one child domain, for sake of simplicity let’s call it DomainA.root.local and my new clients were in a separate domain, let’s call that DomainB.root.local.  I have clients…