Active Directory Active Directory Scripts Galore: Come and Get It! Active Directory is one of the most common uses for PowerShell. I have personally been building Active Directory scripts using VBScript and PowerShell for over a decade. Here's a big sample of Active
Softerra A Review of Softerra's Adaxes AD Automation Software Full Disclosure: This post has been sponsored by Softerra.Active Directory (AD) has been a critical piece of functionality in a huge majority of businesses. AD has provided us with single sign-on functionality
Active Directory Get Active Directory Users From Text File Use this blog post and attached PowerShell script to read Active Directory users from a text file.Some say to only share scripts that have been fully vetted and tested. It's very important
PowerShell Worm spreads across network. Powershell chosen as ally to opposition. Picture this. You drive into work, grab a cup of coffee, sit down at your desk and log in. It's a typical day; a couple of tickets came in overnight, last night's backups
PowerShell Server-Side vs. Client-Side Active Directory Filtering Searching for objects in Active Directory is a cinch with PowerShell. However, you need to know how to use filters to be the most efficient with your time!When filtering objects in Active
PowerShell Easily Find all Undefined Clients in Active Directory I was working on a project recently and needed to find all of the undefined clients in an Active Directory domain. Undefined clients are those domain members that are in an IP subnet
PowerShell Find all Active Directory Groups that a Member of a Group is In I had an Active Directory group containing thousands of user accounts. Each of these user accounts were a member of another group that always was just a bunch of numbers. I needed to
PowerShell Quit With the Text Files Already As a PowerShell beginner you're probably a Googling maniac; I was definitely. As you go out and find script snippets out there you'll find that a ton of examples demonstrate a concept of
Active Directory How to Find Unlinked GPOs in Active Directory Using PowerShell, we can easily find all GPOs that are not linked to an OU in Active Directory (AD).Over time, AD can get messy. With multiple people making changes and with such
Active Directory How to Find the Max Length for an Active Directory Attribute Today, I had some users complaining that they could not populate a certain Active Directory attribute with a fairly long string. Because I didn’t want to fire up ADSIedit to do this,
Active Directory How to Find Stale Active Directory User Accounts As an Active Directory admin, there inevitably comes a time where you’ve got dozens or even hundreds of stale user accounts. In my environment of a little over 10,000 user accounts,
Get-AdUser Get-AdUser: Finding Active Directory users with PowerShell Get-AdUser is our first PowerShell cmdlet for the day!If you’re in IT, chances are you’ve got some implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD). A huge part of AD is
PowerShell Core How to track when a user logs on and off from a computer I've been writing some white papers for Netwrix recently and thought I'd take a snippet from one of those and share with you here. It was a small part of the How to
Active Directory Automating Employee Onboarding in Active Directory This article was originally posted on the ConnectWise blog.Employee onboarding is one of those tasks that is ripe for automation. It's a task that's performed hundreds of times that rarely changes. When
