Hard Code DNS Servers with PowerShell

The following is a PowerShell script to quickly hard code DNS servers for every network interface present on a computer. It will overwrite the existing DNS servers configured on that machines interfaces.  In this example, we'll be using the IP addresses for OpenDNS servers. # The servers that we want to use $newDNSServers = "208.67.220.220","208.67.222.222" # Get all network adapters that already...

Generating Test Users

In setting up an Active Directory environment, you often need test users that are part of test groups and test Organizational Units. In a post at TechExams, Slowhand presents a script that will take a csv file containing names and departments of some dummy users, then creates an OU structure based on a couple of questions.  The users will be created based on the names in the file,...

Hyper-V replication across the WAN

I've recently been working on Hyper-V replication across the Internet to give our clients the option of maintaining an offsite copy of their server in our data center. Everything was going smoothly up to a point. I set up a site-to-site VPN connection between them and us, built an Active Directory two way trust between their domain and ours, and then tried to enter their Hyper-V host into our System...

Workstation Unable to Join Domain

I had a computer that would not join a domain. No matter what I tried, it would come back with "The following error has occurred when trying to join the "abcdefg.com" domain: network path not found."  I tried just about everything I came across while searching on Google: Disable Windows Firewall Run ipconfig /registerdns Run dcdiag on the domain controller Verify FSMO roles of the domain controller Verify...