Tag: SCRIPTING

WINDOWS VIRTUAL DESKTOP – BUILING YOUR IMAGE AUTOMATED (III)

In our previous post we talked about the scripts that can install applications and set settings automatically without even login-on to the system. In this post we will see how we can use those scripts in a JSON file, together with the Azure Image Builder. Within the JSON file we specify which OS we want, […]

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WINDOWS VIRTUAL DESKTOP – BUILING YOUR IMAGE automated (II)

In these last and future posts we will be building an image with the Azure Image Builder. The Image builder takes a standard OS (from the marketplace or your image gallery) and runs a number of scripts against that image fully automated. In this post goes into creating those scripts that the customizer can use […]

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Query AD for information

So.. been busy lately.. but here’s a new topic.. Windows 2008? R2? Kerberos? No.. it’s scripting..

I had a customer who wanted to extract information from AD by a custom application. Offcourse we could open port 389 and have them extract the info.. but perhaps it would be easier to just query the Global Catalog (if the info you want is in there)..

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Cross-forest Authenticate in VBS

So the problem:

All mailboxes of the users are migrated to a central Exchange server, comming from various Exchange 5.5/2003/2003 mailservers (contact me if you want to know how 🙂 ) . and mailboxes where cloned.. now the client needs to be pointed to the new exchange server else Outlook will not work. The challenge, how do you change your mapi profile.

We had 4 scenario’s

1: The domain is NT4 no trust or no domain at all!
2: The domain the user is in, has a trust with the Exchange domain
3 The domain the user is in is a Windows 2000/2003/2008 domain no trust
4: The user is in the domain

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