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Server 2016 Data De-duplication Report – Powershell

Posted on October 8, 2016November 26, 2018 by Malinda RathnayakeLeave a Comment

I put together this crude little script to send out a report on a daily basis

it’s not that fancy but its functional

I’m working on the second revision with an HTML body, lists of corrupted files, Resource usage, more features will be added as I dive further into Dedupe CMDlets.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848450.aspx

Link to the Script – Dedupe_report.ps1

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/bltp675prlz1slo/Dedupe_report_Rev2_pub.txt

If you have any suggestions for improvements please comment and share with everyone

# Malinda Ratnayake | 2016
# Can only be run on Windows Server 2012 R2
#
# Get the date and set the variable
$Now = Get-Date
# Import the cmdlets
Import-Module Deduplication
#
$logFile01 = "C:_ScriptsLogsDedupe_Report.txt"
#
# Get the cluster vip and set to variable
$HostName = (Get-WmiObject win32_computersystem).DNSHostName+"."+(Get-WmiObject win32_computersystem).Domain
#
#$OS = Get-Host {$_.WindowsProductName}
#
# delete previous days check
del $logFile01
#
Out-File "$logFile01" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "Dedupication Report for $HostName" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n$Now" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-DedupJob
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication job Queue" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupJob | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-DedupSchedule
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Schedule" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupSchedule | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
#
#Last Optimization Result and time
Add-Content $logFile01 "Last Optimization Result and time" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupStatus | Select-Object  LastOptimizationTime ,LastOptimizationResultMessage | Format-Table -Wrap | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
#
#
#Last Garbage Collection Result and Time
Add-Content $logFile01 "Last Garbage Collection Result and Time" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupStatus | Select-Object LastGarbageCollectionTime ,LastGarbageCollectionResultMessage | Format-Table -Wrap | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
#
# Get-DedupVolume
$DedupVolumeLetter = Get-DedupVolume | select -ExpandProperty Volume
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Enabled Volumes" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupVolume | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "Volume $DedupVolumeLetter Details -  " -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupVolume | FL | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-DedupStatus
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Summary" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupStatus | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Status Details" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupStatus | FL | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-DedupMetadata
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication MetaData" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "note - details about how deduplication processed the data on volume $DedupVolumeLetter " -Encoding ASCII
Get-DedupMetadata | FL | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Get-Dedupe Events
# Get-Dedupe Events - Resource usage - WIP
Add-Content $logFile01 "Deduplication Events" -Encoding ASCII
Add-Content $logFile01 "__________________________________________________________________________" -Encoding ASCII
Get-WinEvent -MaxEvents 10 -LogName Microsoft-Windows-Deduplication/Diagnostic | where ID -EQ "10243" | FL | Out-File -append  -Encoding ASCII $logFile01
Add-Content $logFile01 "`n" -Encoding ASCII
#
# Change the -To, -From and -SmtpServer values to match your servers.
$Emailbody = Get-Content -Path $logFile01
[string[]]$recipients = "[email protected]"
Send-MailMessage -To $recipients -From [email protected] -subject "File services - Deduplication Report : $HostName " -SmtpServer smtp-relay.gmail.com -Attachments $logFile01

Create local administrator account using Group pol…

Posted on November 18, 2011November 26, 2018 by Malinda RathnayakeLeave a Comment

Domain Trust relationship failures, it may be a virus making it impossible to login using domain credentials..you are bound to run in to scenario’s like this while managing a AD environment.you will have to login to a local administrator account on the client pc and re join the domain or do what ever the necessary troubleshooting procedures. in some cases you don’t have local admin passwords on some pc’s. so this will be a life saver cause i my self had the unfortunate incident where i had to guide a user to reset the local admin password of a pc over the phone using hiren bootcd.

its very simple actually. use this VB script file, modify it accordingly and add it as a computer start up script via Group policy.

this script first queary for the user name you have specified in the script on the local pc, if it doesn’t exist it will create it as an member of the local administrator group. if the user name already exist it will change the password to the one specified.

‘—————————————————————————————————————
‘this section creates the new user called localsupport if it doesn’t existDim AdminPassword
AdminPassword = “password“

QueryForUser(“user_name“)

                Set objNetwork = CreateObject(“Wscript.Network”)
                strComputer = objNetwork.ComputerName
                Set objComputer = GetObject(“WinNT://” &strComputer)

                Set colAccounts = GetObject(“WinNT://” & strComputer & “”)
                Set objUser = colAccounts.Create(“user”, “localsupport”)
                objUser.SetPassword AdminPassword
                objUser.Put “UserFlags”, 65600 ‘
                objUser.SetInfo

‘add to administrators group
                Set objGroup = GetObject(“WinNT://” & strComputer & “/Administrators,group”)
                Set objUser = GetObject(“WinNT://” & strComputer & “/localsupport,user”)
                objGroup.Add(objUser.ADsPath)

‘msgbox “user was created”

‘this section just changes the password if the user exists

Sub QueryForUser(strlocalsupport)
    Set objlocal = GetObject(“WinNT://.”)
    objlocal.Filter = Array(“user”)
    For Each User In objlocal
        If lcase(User.Name) = lcase(strlocalsupport) Then

                strComputer = “.”
                Set objUser = GetObject(“WinNT://” & strComputer & “/localsupport, user”)
                objUser.SetPassword AdminPassword
                objUser.SetInfo

            ‘msgbox User.Name & ” already exists.” & vbCrLf & “The password was re-set.”
            WScript.Quit
        End If
    Next
End Sub

————————————————————————————————————–

to change the password modify the password within the quotes (marked in red), in the following code section. this also allows you to easily change the password in case you have to give the password to a end user.

Dim AdminPassword
AdminPassword = “password“

QueryForUser(“user_name“)

hope this helps someone, cause this saved my ass so many time. 😛

Managing calendar permissions in Exchange Server 2010

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Malinda RathnayakeLeave a Comment

Admin may get asked to set and add / Edit permissions for shared Calendars.
these Sharing options are not available in EMC, so we have to use exchange power shell on the server to manipulate them.

View existing Calendar permissions

Get-MailboxFolderPermission -identity "Networking Calendar:Calendar"

There are 4 MailboxFolderPermission cmdlets in Exchange Server 2010:

• Add-MailboxFolderPermission

• Get-MailboxFolderPermission

• Remove-MailboxFolderPermission

• Set-MailboxFolderPermission

Each cmdlet have different syntax, follow the links for more information..

In this scenario we need to set following permissions to the Calendar Resource named “Networking Calendar.

user – “Nyckie” – full permissions

all users – permissions to add events without the delete permission

To assign calendar permissions to new users “Add-MailboxFolderPermission”

Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "Networking Calendar:Calendar" -User [email protected] -AccessRights Owner

To Change existing calendar permissions “set-MailboxFolderPermission”

set-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "Networking Calendar:Calendar" -User default -AccessRights NonEditingAuthor

This assigns the owner righs to the user “nyckig” for the calendar of the “Networking Calendar” resource.and sets NonEditingAuthor permissions as the default permission for the calendar for all other users

__________________________________________

Here are the other permission levels you can assign:-

None – FolderVisible

Owner – CreateItems, ReadItems, CreateSubfolders, FolderOwner, FolderContact, FolderVisible, EditOwnedItems, EditAllItems, DeleteOwnedItems, DeleteAllItems

PublishingEditor – CreateItems, ReadItems, CreateSubfolders, FolderVisible, EditOwnedItems, EditAllItems, DeleteOwnedItems, DeleteAllItems

Editor – CreateItems, ReadItems, FolderVisible, EditOwnedItems, EditAllItems, DeleteOwnedItems, DeleteAllItems

PublishingAuthor – CreateItems, ReadItems, CreateSubfolders, FolderVisible, EditOwnedItems, DeleteOwnedItems

Author – CreateItems, ReadItems, FolderVisible, EditOwnedItems, DeleteOwnedItems NonEditingAuthor – CreateItems, ReadItems, FolderVisible

Reviewer – ReadItems, FolderVisible

Contributor – CreateItems, FolderVisible

The following roles apply specifically to calendar folders:

AvailabilityOnly – View only availability data

LimitedDetails – View availability data with subject and location

source –

technet.microsoft.com

http://blog.powershell.no/2010/09/20/managing-calendar-permissions-in-exchange-server-2010/