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Allowing remote access to MySQL

Posted by dave on March 15, 2013 No comments

MySql remote access can be easily achieved by running the following command: CREATE USER ‘usernamehere’@’%’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘passwordhere’; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘databasenamehere’@’%’ WITH GRANT OPTION;

Using LDAP authentication with MediaWiki and IIS

Posted by dave on January 15, 2013 No comments

I wanted MediaWiki to use Windows Authentication automatically when users visited the Wiki. This wasn’t as straight forward as I had hoped but I finally managed to get it working, this is roughly how I went about it: Install PHP Install LDAP …

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Powershell to email Windows users when their AD password is soon to expire

Posted by dave on January 15, 2013 No comments

As with most companys, the most frequent support questions are to do with users passwords. We have a lot of remote users that don’t actually login to the system and as passwords are set to expire quite often so they quite frequently find that their password …

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Handy Powershell Commands

Posted by dave on October 19, 2012 No comments

This page will be updated as and when I come across any handy PowerShell. List alias email addresses: get-mailbox | select -expand emailaddresses alias Recreate OWA directory in IIS: New-OWAVirtualDirectory Return all AD users created in last 30 days $checktime = (get-date).adddays(-30) get-aduser -searchbase …

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