install powershell module

class domain_membership (
  $domain = 'ad.contoso.com',
  $username = 'administrator',
  $password = lookup('password'),
  $secure_password = false,
  $machine_ou      = 'OU=test,DC=ad,DC=contoso,DC=com',
  
){

$code = " 
$secStr=ConvertTo-SecureString '${password}' -AsPlainText -Force; 
if (-not $?) { 
write-error 'Error: Unable to convert password string to a secure string'; 
exit 10; 
} 
$creds=New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential( '${username}', $secStr ); 
if (-not $?) { 
write-error 'Error: Unable to create PSCredential object'; 
exit 20; 
} 
Add-Computer -DomainName ${domain} -OUPath $_machine_ou -Restart -Force -Cred $creds; 
if (-not $?) { 
write-error 'Error: Unable to join domain'; 
exit 30; 
} 
exit 0"

#
# Use the Josh Cooper PowerShell provider
#
exec { 'join_domain':

command => $code,
provider => powershell,
logoutput => true,
unless => "if ((Get-WMIObject Win32_ComputerSystem).Domain -ne '${domain}') { exit 1 }",
}

}

Trend Micro IWSVA is a web proxy that has lots of security feature such as antivirus, antimalware, but it is also a web filter, similar to WebSense Web Filter where URL categories can be blocked to protect the end users, and of course to avoid browsing non-productive web sites inside the company. However, if you download the VMware image, the disk image is quite small and could get full easily if your environment has lots of user and HTTP traffic to process, and of course, logs as well.

Below is a procedure to increase the disk size in a VMware vSphere environment.

1. Check first the partition disk size usage using the command: df -lh

The most common partition that becomes full is: /dev/mapper/IWSVA-app_data

2. Check the directory sizes that are mounted on /dev/mapper/IWSVA-app_data such as:

* /var
* /var/iwss/tmp/tmpfs
* /var/iwss/tmp/v_tmpfs

The most common directory inside /var that becomes…

Information:
The following information explains the Best practices for DNS client settings on Domain Controller and Domain Member.

Domain controller with DNS installed:
On a domain controller that also acts as a DNS server, recommended that you configure the domain controller’s DNS client settings according to these specifications:

IP configuration on domain controller:

• In single DC/DNS in a domain environment,  DC / DNS server points to its private IP address (not to loopback 127.x.x.) as preferred DNS server in TCP/IP property.
• If multiple DCs that’s the DNS servers are in a domain environment, recommendation to have all DCs point to ANOTHER/REMOTE DC’s IP address as preferred DNS and then point to it’s private IP address as an alternate DNS.
• Each DC has just one IP address and one network adapter is enabled (disable unused NICs).
• IPv6 should not be disabled on DC’s NIC card. Set it to “obtain IPV6 address automatically” and “obtain…

In the event that you’re using UUID or MAC Address to uniquely identify servers in the a database (the MDT database for example) you might want a quick and easy way of getting these values from the Command Prompt on the target server/client…

UUID

MAC Address

or

/ JC

Stellt man in der WSUS Konsole unter Update Services / WSUS Servername / Updates / All Updates die Anzeige des Status von Failed or Needed auf Any, kann es dazu kommen das die WSUS Konsole nicht mehr in der Lage ist alle vorhandenen Updates an zu zeigen, was sich in einem Timeout darstellt.

Unglücklicher Weise merkt sich die WSUS Konsole diese Einstellung und so ist es nicht mehr so einfach möglich zur alten Anzeige zurück zu kehren. Daher habe ich mit dem Process-Monitor von Sysinternals mir die WSUS MMC angeschaut und festgestellt, dass die Einstellungen beim beenden der MMC in folgendem Verzeichnis abgelegt werden.

Löscht man die Datei wsus im Verzeichnis …

del %USERPROFILE%appdataroamingmicrosoftmmcwsus

… dann startet die WSUS Konsole wieder mit den Standard-Einstellungen.

Enjoy it, b!