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Force an address list update on the Exchange server

Explanation of Non-Delivery Report (NDR)error codes for Exchange Server

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This document contains all the IIS related questions asked in the interviews for web administrators.

This document shows you the step by step Installation of Symantec Backup Exec 10d on Windows 2003 server.

Below command is to backup a forward zone using dnscmd
dnscmd /zoneexport kannade.com backup\kannade.com.dns.bak
The above command backups the forward zone kannade.com to the file kannade.com.dns.bak

Restore
the following command restores the forward zone.
dnscmd /zoneadd kannade.com /primary /file kannade.com.dns.bak /load

After adding the zone to the DNS server, you can convert it to an AD-integrated zone by running:

How to backup DFS data

DFS data can be backedup through User data under shadow copy components. It will be active when if the DFS replication service is running.

The backup job speed will be very low as it is getting backed up through VSS. so its depends on vss writer.

Can we take file level backup instead of selecting through user data?
Yes.. If you have large amount of data to be baced up, ...

Below vbscript for getting the service tag

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strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colSMBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure")
For Each objSMBIOS in colSMBIOS
Wscript.Echo "Serial Number: " & objSMBIOS.SerialNumber
Next


Generating diagnostic report for all replication groups are time consuming process. This can be automated by scheduling a VBscript to run the command line dfsradmin utlity.


'#########Script by Praveen Kumar###################
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("./repgroupname.txt", 1) 'input text file for name of the replication group
Do until objFile.AtEndOfStream
Strgroup = objFile.ReadLine
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.Run("%COMSPEC% /c dfsradmin health new /RgName:" & Strgroup & " /RefMemName:ServerName /repname:c:\" & strgroup & "_%date:~-4%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%.htm ...

This vbscript backups the event logs of list of the servers when it exceeds the mentioned size with error handling. It writes the error on log files. you can schedule the event log clear report to your mail through blat.

'##########Script created by Praveen Kumar C ############
'########## visit www.kannade.com/tech/ for more details#
on error resume next
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
Set ObjFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ObjFile = ObjFso.OpenTextFile("./servers.txt",1) 'input list of servers
'sReportname ...

please find the below script for resetting list of domain users.

'###########Script created by Praveen Kumar##################
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("./users.txt", 1) ' text file input for list of users
Do until objFile.AtEndOfStream
strPassword = "Password" 'enter the default password
intPwdValue = "0"
Line = objFile.ReadLine
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & Line)
If objUser.class="user" then ' just to make sure the object is user or not
objUser.SetPassword strPassword
objUser.Put "PwdLastSet", intPwdValue ...