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Active Directory Friday: Change a user’s password
It is one of the most common tasks Active Directory administrators face, changing a user’s password or unlocking their account. Today we will discuss how this can be done in Powershell using either the...
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Active Directory Friday: Find users with password never expires
Having password set to never expires might be something that is not allowed by your IT policy, or perhaps you would like to get some insight about how widespread this setting is in your domain. In...
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Active Directory Friday: Use the ANR filter for LDAP Queries
ANR or Ambiguous Name Resolution is used to query for objects in Active Directory if the exact identity of an object is not known. A query containing Ambigious Name Resolution will query for all the...
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As an Active Directory Administrator there are some moments, few and far in between where you might have a moment to yourself. In this article I will give you a short line of code so you can use this...
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Active Directory Friday: Determine the forest functional level
Knowing the Forest Functional Level can be important when implementing new products or when considering to upgrade your functional level. This information can be view in the ‘Active Directory Domains...
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Active Directory Friday: Creating Active Directory groups using PowerShell
Creating a group in Active Directory using PowerShell is relatively simple when using the Active Directory module. To create a Global Distribution Group the following code can be executed: 1...
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Active Directory Friday: Distribution group membership for AD User
To get a list of distribution groups an Active Directory user account is a member of of we can query Active Directory. For example by combining the Get-ADUser and Get-ADGroup cmdlets. To generate this...
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Free ebook – Active Directory Friday All Articles
The Active Directory Friday articles have proven to be quite popular among my readers and as a thank you to all my readers I decided to publish the series as an Ebook. The reason for publishing this...
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Active Directory Friday: Use MSAD_ReplNeighbor WMI class to replicate Active...
This article will provide details of initiating replication of using WMI in PowerShell. There are a lot of possible methods of starting replication such as using the ‘Active Directory Sites and...
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Active Directory Friday: Find groups with no members
Occasionally groups may become obsolete or are never populated with members. It can be interesting to find out how many groups are in your organization that have no members, as action can be taken on...
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