Random Administration Stuff

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Create OU in Active Directory using PowerShell

Here I’ve written code for creating OU in Active directory.
First of all will get Domain name and pass Distinguished name to function DNStoDN.

function PassPath
{
    
    $DC = Convert-DNStoDN (gwmi WIN32_ComputerSystem).Domain
    
    return "OU=$OU, $DC"
}

Then split DistinguishedName using function DNStoDN

   1: # This function to get    2: function Convert-DNStoDN ([string]$DNSName)    3: {    4:    #  Create an array of each item in the string separated by "."    5:    $DNSArray = $DNSName.Split(".")    6:   # Let's go through our new array and do something with each item    7:    for ($x = 0; $x -lt $DNSArray.Length ; $x++)    8:       {    9:         #I don't want a comma after my last item, so check to see if I am on my last one and set   10:         # $Separator equal to nothing.   11:         # Remember that we need to go to Length-1 because arrays are "0 based indexes"   12:          if ($x -eq ($DNSArray.Length - 1)){$Separator = ""}else{$Separator =","}   13:          [string]$DN += "DC=" + $DNSArray[$x] + $Separator   14:       }   15:    return $DN   16: }

Now I’ll check OU is exists, If it does not will create new OU. You can change the name of OU given in the beginning.

  
function CheckOU
{
[string] $path = PassPath  #Calling function PassPath
[string] $fPassPath = Convert-DNStoDN (gwmi WIN32_ComputerSystem).Domain
try {
     if(([adsi]::Exists("LDAP://$fPassPath")))
     {
        #return $true #Throw("Supplies Path does not exists.")
        if(([adsi]::Exists("LDAP://$path")))
        {
            return $true
        }
     }    
    }
catch {
       Write-Host "Please check Domain of your machine" -ForegroundColor red  
       exit   
      }
}
  
if((CheckOU))
{
    Write-Host "OU exits"
}
else
{
try {
        [string] $fPassPath = Convert-DNStoDN (gwmi WIN32_ComputerSystem).Domain
        Write-Host $fPassPath
        if(([adsi]::Exists("LDAP://$fPassPath")))
        {
            $Connect = [adsi]"LDAP://$fPassPath"
            
            $CreateOU = $Connect.Create("OrganizationalUnit","OU= $OU")
            $CreateOU.SetInfo()
            if((CheckOU))
            {
                Write-Host "`nOU" $OU " has been created!"  -ForegroundColor green
                
                
    
            }
        }
    }
catch {
         Write-Host "Can't create OU." -ForegroundColor red
         exit
      }
}

Here is the complete code snippet.

Run this script with Administrator privilege.

   1: Import-Module ActiveDirectory   2:     3: $OU = "myOU" # Organizational Unit Name   4:     5:     6: # This function to get    7: function Convert-DNStoDN ([string]$DNSName)    8: {    9:    #  Create an array of each item in the string separated by "."   10:    $DNSArray = $DNSName.Split(".")   11:   # Let's go through our new array and do something with each item   12:    for ($x = 0; $x -lt $DNSArray.Length ; $x++)   13:       {   14:         #I don't want a comma after my last item, so check to see if I am on my last one and set   15:         # $Separator equal to nothing.   16:         # Remember that we need to go to Length-1 because arrays are "0 based indexes"   17:          if ($x -eq ($DNSArray.Length - 1)){$Separator = ""}else{$Separator =","}   18:          [string]$DN += "DC=" + $DNSArray[$x] + $Separator   19:       }   20:    return $DN   21: }  22:    23:    24: function CheckOU  25: {  26: [string] $path = PassPath  #Calling function PassPath  27: [string] $fPassPath = Convert-DNStoDN (gwmi WIN32_ComputerSystem).Domain  28: try {  29:      if(([adsi]::Exists("LDAP://$fPassPath")))  30:      {  31:         #return $true #Throw("Supplies Path does not exists.")  32:         if(([adsi]::Exists("LDAP://$path")))  33:         {  34:             return $true  35:         }  36:      }      37:     }  38: catch {  39:        Write-Host "Please check Domain of your machine" -ForegroundColor red    40:        exit     41:       }  42: }  43:    44: if((CheckOU))  45: {  46:     Write-Host "OU exits"  47: }  48: else  49: {  50: try {  51:         [string] $fPassPath = Convert-DNStoDN (gwmi WIN32_ComputerSystem).Domain  52:         Write-Host $fPassPath  53:         if(([adsi]::Exists("LDAP://$fPassPath")))  54:         {  55:             $Connect = [adsi]"LDAP://$fPassPath"  56:               57:             $CreateOU = $Connect.Create("OrganizationalUnit","OU= $OU")  58:             $CreateOU.SetInfo()  59:             if((CheckOU))  60:             {  61:                 Write-Host "`nOU" $OU " has been created!"  -ForegroundColor green  62:                   63:                   64:       65:             }  66:         }  67:     }  68: catch {  69:          Write-Host "Can't create OU." -ForegroundColor red  70:          exit  71:       }  72: }

Thanks.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

SharePoint 2010 Service Account Password Change

My SharePoint Farm has multiple application pools including SharePoint Services running.

And each Application Pool is running on different service account.

To check which application pool is running using which service account.

Go to Run >> Type inetmgr. This will open Internet Information Services Manager.

Click on Application Pool and you can see Identity of Application pool which is Service account.

When we create Application Pool or Application Service and choose new service application pool account, this account

get registered to Manage Accounts under Security.

Path will be Central Administration > Security > Manage Accounts

We can see here are all service accounts are registered.

If you want to Check password of service account you can check using PowerShell command.

Open Windows PowerShell Module from All Application Program.

type below PowerShell Command.

Get-WmiObject –Namespace root/MicrosoftIIsV2 –Class IIsApplicationPoolSetting –Property Name, WAMUserName, WAMUserPass | Select Name, WAMUserName, WAMUserPass

and it will show all passwords of particular service account name.

This will help you in case you forget your AppPool Service Account password.

Now, we will change password of service account which is running a web application name Tesst – 45380. And you can see

the service account name is spdev\testpass and password is P@ssw0rd3

For changing password of spdev\testpass go to Central Administration > Security > Manage Accounts

look for spdev\testpass and edit.

Now check box named Change Password Now and select Set account password to new value.

enter new password and click on ok.

To confirm password is changed or not you can run above PowerShell script.

Thanks for reading,

Any query, please post comment.

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Install and Configure SharePoint Server 2013 step by step

In this blog post I am covering all basic required steps of SharePoint 13 installation. And have divided this in 4 parts.

1) Install Windows Server 2012 and Active Directory configuration.

2) Install SQL Server 2012.

3) Install and configure SharePoint Server 2013 .

4) Configure SharePoint Server Service Applications

5) Create your first web application on SharePoint Server 2013.

Installation and configuration of Windows Server and SQL server have done more specific to build SharePoint Server farm prospective.

For example, Permissions given to Service accounts during installation of windows server. Installation of SQL server and SharePoint Server have done by specific service account.

If you have any query, please post comment.

Thank you.

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Create Web Application on SharePoint Server 2013

This blog post is specially for SharePoint beginners. If you have read my previous blog about SharePoint Server 13 installation and configuration. This blog is about creating web application and creating site collection.

So let’s open SharePoint Central Administration Page.

Navigate to Manage Web Applications >> Click on New

IIS web site name : <Enter name>

Select Port : ( I don’t have any web application created before, So it’s taking port 80)

Application Pool Name : <Enter name>

note : I am going to create Team Site under this web application, So I’ve given TeamSite name to Application name and 80 to remember this application pool is on port 80.

Content Database name : I’ve added _80 to differentiate in Content database.

We can select Service Application those will be connected to web application we are creating.

Click on OK to create web application. This will take few seconds.

Once the web applicaiton is created. Go to Application Management >> Create Site Collection

Select Web Application which was just created.

Title : <Enter name>

Select Template : Team Site

Select Experience Version : 2013

Primary site collection administrator : spadmin

note : primary and secondary admin have full permission on site collection.

click on Ok.

Visit just created Team site collection.

Give permissions to Active Directory users to site collection.

Navigate to Site Contents which is on left panel of the Team Site.

Again go to Settings

People and groups

Add new user to Team site members this group has contribute permission Type >> NT Authority\authenticated users

Go to home page by clicking on Team site link and sign in with different user.

Thanks.

Also read :

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Install and Configure SharePoint Server 2013 Step by Step

You are reading : SharePoint Server 2013 installation Part 3

In previous post we’ve installed SQL Server 2012, Now for SharePoint installation I’ve logged in with SPAdmin

account, and also have created one more account for which will have administrator rights on SharePoint farm i.e. svcSPFarm.

1) Download : SharePoint Server 2013

2) Mount ISO file. and start installation process.

Before starting installation SharePoint Server, need to install software prerequisites.

So click on Install software prerequisites.

Note : you need active internet connection.Because it downloads updates from Microsoft Download Center.

Accept and terms and licence agreement and go next.

Once installation of Prerequisite is done. Click on Install SharePoint Server

Enter product key and Continue.

Accept Terms and Continue.

Keep Path of Server as it is and click on Install Now

This will install SharePoint Server on your machine.

Next step is to Run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard

By clicking on Close button, Wizard will run. If you want to run it later you can find it in start menu.

Click on Next.

Click on Yes.

Select Create a new server farm. and click Next

Enter Database server name (Server name on which SQL Server is installed).

Username : zsdev\svcSPFarm (which I’ve created in Active Directory) This Service Account will have full access on

SharePoint Config Database

Password : (Password set for svcSPFarm account)

SP13 is the server name where SQL Server is installed. click Next

Enter Passphrase. and don’t forget it. because next time when you will need to reconfigure farm at the time of update installation. It will ask you for Passphrase.