Connect Cisco VIRL to The Internet AND a VMware Virtual Machine

Anyone who talks nerd with me knows I love my subscription to Cisco VIRL. However at some point in your lab you will find that you want a Server 2012/2016 VM, or you just want some dam network connectivity in this lab. Have no fear, flat networks are here. (They always have been). Step 1: …

Server 2003 – Exchange 2007 Export/Archive Mailboxes Before Migrating To Office365

End Goal: Migrate to O365 Problem: A ridiculous amount of accounts to archive that we will not be migrating. Solution: Powershell Pre-reqs: A 32-Bit Machine (I used a Win 7 VM x32) YES IT NEEDS TO BE X32 DUE TO ARCHITECTURE LIMITATIONS Exchange management console x32 (You can do a custom install from the exchange …

Powershell – Advanced Selective Force Password Change AD

  This script forces users to change their password if they haven't changed it in the last 5 days. I also filtered this by site (OU) in AD. #create all necessary variables $currenttime = get-date $lasttime = $currenttime.AddDays(-5) $changedusers = @() $allsites = @()   #choose users from specific sites and add them to the …

Cisco WLC 2504 How to configure LAG/EtherChannel to Cisco Switch

Today I'm going to show you how to configure a LAG/EtherChannel on a Cisco 2504 WLC to a Cisco switch (or switch Stack). Why would one want to do this? In the case of the 2504, the only benefits are redundancy. The 2504 WLC will not be able to push out more than 1 Gbps …

CISCO IOU LICENSE

To get a Cisco IOU license on the GNS3 VM nano script.py paste the following #! /usr/bin/python3 print("*********************************************************************") print("Cisco IOU License Generator - Kal 2011, python port of 2006 C version") import os import socket import hashlib import struct # get the host id and host name to calculate the hostkey hostid=os.popen("hostid").read().strip() hostname = socket.gethostname() …