I’ll be speaking at the PowerShell Conference Europe 2016 in Hannover, Germany. My session will cover Just Enough Administration (JEA) for Domain Controllers.
Active Directory
Finding Accounts with Service Principal Names in AD Using PowerShell
A quick post while I am waiting for some replication to happen. I was continuing on through a paused installation of FIM from some time ago and had forgotten what Service Principal Names I’d set up in the lab. A… Read More ›
MVP Community Camp Session 2014
Today I presented a session at MVP Community Camp 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan. The Taiwan event details can be seen here. Here is the slide deck from that session, the example MOF file and all PowerShell code. The session was… Read More ›
Examining Legacy AD Replication Metadata with PowerShell 2.0
I had a scenario last week where I was troubleshooting a Domain Replication issue. Basically, for one reason or another, a DC had only an inwards replication connection but no outward replication connection to another DC. It was found that… Read More ›
Learn Active Directory in a month of lunches
For IT Pro’s new to Active Directory, Manning have released another book in the Month of Lunches series thats worth a look. Get your copy here: Learn Active Directory in a month of lunches Having read the PowerShell 2, PowerShell… Read More ›
Answered: Office 2013 and Active Directory Based Activation
There was a question at my session yesterday on ‘What’s New in Active Directory 2012’ regarding Office 2013 Activation. I couldn’t answer at the time but Active Directory 2012 does support Activation of MS Office 2013, details can be found… Read More ›
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Learning Resources
If you’re looking for some good FIM 2010 Resources to get your knowledge and skills up then the ones below are a good place to start. The training are excellent quality and the information is courtesy of Andrew Hill from… Read More ›
Free AD Object Recovery tool from Quest
Quest have a freeware tool for recovering deleted Active Directory Objects that can be found here: http://www.quest.com/object-restore-for-active-directory/ The tool allows you to view and reanimate Tombstoned objects from Windows 2003 onwards, without taking a DC offline. Remember that this is… Read More ›
Active Directory in Windows 8: First Look
I finally managed to get a first look at Active Directory in Windows 8 at the Community Technology Update event yesterday, run by the Singapore Windows User Group. Andrew Cheng (MVP) presented the session, his blog with a link to the… Read More ›
Find accounts with home folders by naming convention.
I found myself doing this today, basically we have a number of account types (service accounts, resource accounts) that should not have home directories. however, due to incorrect provisioning choices they do. We wanted to identify these so we could… Read More ›
Quick and Dirty Mailbox Storage Quota updates with ActiveRoles and PowerShell
If you have a need to set a large number of mailbox storage quotas, it can be done quickly and easily with the Quest ActiveRoles cmdlets for Windows PowerShell. In my example below I am actually running the changes through… Read More ›
PowerShell Functions Template – Adams AD Admin Blog
I recently stumbled across an old post on Adams AD Admin blog (http://adadmin.blogspot.com/) that I wanted to share. I thought this was a great template for PowerShell Functions and I have actually just adopted it for my own functions. Find… Read More ›
MCITP Enterprise Administrator Study Guides Updated
Anyone studying for the Windows 2008 MCITP certifications may have found that the study guides have been updated. You may also have heard nothing about it and be surprised by this! So just in case, here are the new versions… Read More ›
Expanding the help for your ActiveRoles users
One of the most useful things about ActiveRoles is the customisation that’s possible through the web portal. From creating customised wizards for different account types to buttons that run scripts, there is a lot you can do to make the… Read More ›
Renaming Active Directory Groups in Bulk with Powershell and ActiveRoles Server
I said I was going to be blogging Powershell stuff and this is the first post. The most important thing for me to point out is that I am a complete Powershell and scripting newbie, so when I get the… Read More ›
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