Active Directory Group Policies (GPO) enables you to control user and computer settings. It is important to document them. In this blog post I am going to show you two PowerShell commands […]
Documenting all GPOs with PowerShell
Monitoring Logon Attempts in Active Directory with PowerShell
Domain-Controllers monitor successful logon attempts by default. All events of all login attempts are logged in the Event Viewer. In this article I will cover how to monitor all logon events with […]
Active Directory: Find orphaned (unused) User Accounts with PowerShell
This short blog post will show you how you can find orphaned user accounts in Active Directory that may no longer be in use. Let’s go. Code Here is an example screen […]
Active Directory: Find users based on Attributes and add them to a Group with PowerShell
Active Directory objects are usually stored in organizational units. Sometimes these organizational units don’t refer to the site where the users work. The goal for this article is to retrieve these users […]
Active Directory | Azure AD | Microsoft 365 Hybrid: Change UPN Suffix for all On-Premise Users (Bulk)
In a hybrid environment, it makes sense to configure an alternate UPN suffix so that users are not created in Azure AD with the username *.onmicrosoft.com. In this post, I provide a […]
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Test-Environment: Building an Active Directory OU structure with Groups and Users with PowerShell Automation
You have just started learning something new and you are now about to bulid up a test environment with Windows Server ? For a good test environment, you will need a Domain-Controller […]
PowerShell: Import Active Directory Users from CSV
Comma separated files are widely used when it comes to bulk import or export of data. In this blog post I will provide a sample script to import Active Directory users from […]
List all Server Roles from all Windows Servers with PowerShell
So you are about to document your network and os environment? You don’t want to purchase 3rd party software? You want to list all server roles from all servers in your network? […]
Active Directory: Changing Default Password and Lockout Policies
Default Domain Policy password policies determine the complexity and minimum length of Active Directory domain passwords. Because the preconfigured default settings are suboptimal, many administrators decide to change the default policy settings. […]
PowerShell: Get Last Domain Logon with Get-ADUserLastLogon
The function covered in this blog post is part of my Active Directory Domain Services Section tool, which has been published in 2018. After some time, I decided to create an explicit […]
PowerShell: Retrieve List of Domain-Computers by Operating System
As an administrator, you should have an overview of your Active Directory environment. Of course, this also includes user and computer accounts . In this blog post I will carry out some […]
Creating multiple SMB Shares at once (Bulk) with PowerShell
So you are about to provide a new file server. Several folder shares have to be created. If you don’t want to point and click inside the graphical interface, you might consider […]
Active Directory: Customizing the Windows 10 Taskbar and Start Menu with Group Policies
A standardized and tidy desktop is a key factor for satisfied users. In order to provide the ease of use of Windows systems in an enterprise environment it’s reasonable that the taskbar […]
PowerShell: Retrieve and monitor System Time of all Computers with Get-Time
Do you have problems with time synchronization in your Active Directory domain or are you only interested in monitoring and determining the system time of your servers, workstations or domain-controllers? If your […]
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