Posts made by Texkonc

@zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally setting up a password manager. Settled on Bitwarden. We'll see how it goes.

Keepass is free....

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I priced Netwrix and....yikes

Not only the price, but setup and running auditing is overly-complex.

Not really, I ran the demo and easily deployed the User Activity Monitor and scared the crap out of 9k staff.

After I finish the damage control or real accounts getting nuked, I am going to test that theory. but I have a 90% hunch.

Ah........
The First, Last, and Display Name are the same.
I just remembered that putting some on Lit Hold in the past, I wasn't able to until I changed one of them to a different display name.
Its all due to the Display Name I bet.

@dafyre said in Disabling Mailbox disables another mailbox:

Does the UserPrincipalName stay the same?

No, one will be user@domain.com and the other one will be user01@domain.com

@dbeato said in Disabling Mailbox disables another mailbox:

Exchange deletes the AD account once you disable the mailbox.

We are not doing Delete in Exchange, we are just doing the "Disconnect" which drops them into the soft delete queue were you can link it up later if needed provided the time frame doesnt pass.

@dbeato said in Disabling Mailbox disables another mailbox:

Is this on Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019?

2013

@JaredBusch said in Disabling Mailbox disables another mailbox:

@Texkonc said in Disabling Mailbox disables another mailbox:

When an Employee moves to a different location, we have to make a new AD account for them since all the messages and sales data in that account belong to that property. So we will have a user01@domain.com in a Disabled OU, and then User02@domain.com in the correct property OU. The disabled OU is at the root and not nested within the property ou's.

So as you can imagine that Disabled OU is massive with old accounts. We started Disabling the account in exchange in the Disabled OU and get them put in the Soft Delete pool since it is easy to say oh crap, reconnect the mailbox. You are back online now. Sorry....

However that process has yeilded a disable in the Disabled OU and in their active account in the property OU. The accounts are hard deleted. Attribute Editor for msexchSoftDelete are 0 for both accounts and msexchMailboxGuid is missing on both too.

So I have the joy of creating them a blank mailbox and hunting and pecking in Veeam since I do not know what DAG database they were on.

The only corrolation we can come up with is an attribute we have for EmpId as that is the same for both accounts, since their payroll ID did not change.

Does Exchange/AD look for commonalities like that and decides to nuke both?

no idea. I try to avoid exchange.

Helpful.You.Are.Not.

When an Employee moves to a different location, we have to make a new AD account for them since all the messages and sales data in that account belong to that property. So we will have a user01@domain.com in a Disabled OU, and then User02@domain.com in the correct property OU. The disabled OU is at the root and not nested within the property ou's.

So as you can imagine that Disabled OU is massive with old accounts. We started Disabling the account in exchange in the Disabled OU and get them put in the Soft Delete pool since it is easy to say oh crap, reconnect the mailbox. You are back online now. Sorry....

However that process has yeilded a disable in the Disabled OU and in their active account in the property OU. The accounts are hard deleted. Attribute Editor for msexchSoftDelete are 0 for both accounts and msexchMailboxGuid is missing on both too.

So I have the joy of creating them a blank mailbox and hunting and pecking in Veeam since I do not know what DAG database they were on.

The only corrolation we can come up with is an attribute we have for EmpId as that is the same for both accounts, since their payroll ID did not change.

Does Exchange/AD look for commonalities like that and decides to nuke both?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting ready to go to do an on site today. Then possibly driving to NY tonight!

Nah? Really? Did they call you in to fix Linux since you have a hard on for Linux?

We have a isolated environment that someone was playing with SCCM VMM, they just disabled the VMM services when they were done. DB is still up and there have been a lot of changes to those Hyper V VM's since the service was off. We would like to start it back up and review the configurations but limited SC experience we are being cautious. If we start it back up, will it read the new configs of the VM's and update the DB or will it try and push the changes it knows of and play havoc with those VM's? Are we in for some fun in that lab or will enabling it be a non issue and it will read the new settings and keep what is there?

Just looked at the schedule, really.....voip again Jared? Isn't that horse dead between you and Nick?

Used to live walking distance from there before that area blew up and got fancy.
Right by the La Cima Club where Scott, Dominica and I spent way too much money on food and drinks.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So Am I the only one who finds it funny @scottalanmiller picked me up from the airport a week ago today and here he is with my Uncle @Dashrender ?
No..
Okay. I need more coffee

@Dashrender is your uncle?

that is correct.: he was the one who told me about ML to being with, and was part of the reason I started with IT.

Condolences.

Walked into the office to have exchange down. Non of the DAG drives are consistent. Sigh... Some DB's are offline..

@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2019:

@nerdydad said in MangoCon 2019:

@dominica Never been to Rochester, but already believes that DFW is a wee bit more appealing than Rochester.

It's more like Austin than you might think. It's actually a very cool town. But not all that big.

Just not South Dallas....

I could offer my house and Grill for a Grill night. Rojo and I might be fighting for grill time.
Depending on how many people show for the conference....

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Home from driving @WrCombs around Dallas.

Not very exciting I take it? I am about to leave the office. Text me if you doing anything tonight before I get too far north.

I didn't get the alert as the only one I have on is the Weather alert. #winning

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reviewing Backups at new job...DAG...Last mountable backup is 4/10/2018.
Pass me the Whiskey.

bwahaha. . . something something grass is always greener.

So Veeam is not letting me do an item level recovery, I only have the recovery option when I select the EDB file, not the Open option.
So even these mounts are dirty. I guess I have to tell this user tough luck on her restore, as I am not going to recover the whole EDB just for her.