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Four commands to help you track down insecure LDAP Bindings before March 2020
In March 2020, Microsoft will release its monthly updates. With those updates, Microsoft will disable insecure LDAP Bindings, which is goin…
Get-ADObject : The server has returned the following error: invalid enumeration context.
In the last weeks, I’m working on a PowerShell module that the main goal is to work on gathering and fixing GPOs. I’ve been testing my modu…
Get-EventsLibrary.ps1 – Monitoring Events PowerShell
This event library (Get-EventsLibrary.ps1) is PowerShell script that parses Security (mostly) logs on Domain Controllers. It has few report…
Getting Active Directory Last Backup Time using PowerShell
I shouldn’t be telling you that, but Active Directory Backup is an essential part of your Active Directory setup. When a backup of Active D…
Getting Bitlocker and LAPS summary report with PowerShell
Having Bitlocker and LAPS in modern Active Directory is a must. But just because you enable GPO and have a process that should say Bitlocke…
Getting Windows 10 build version from Active Directory
Today I saw an article on how to get Windows Version Report from Active Directory and thought that this is a cool idea. Something handy for…
How I didn’t know how powerful and fast hashtables are
I’ve been using PowerShell for a long while now using Hashtables, OrderedDictionary, and other types of data types in PowerShell, but I nev…
How to find different server types in Active Directory with PowerShell
Working as a freelancer is a great thing if you can handle it. Each day, each week something new happens and a new problem shows up on my d…
Hyper-V – There was an error during move operation
Windows Hyper-V with it’s live migration is a great feature… when it works! Unfortunately after setting it up things weren’t…
Instant Replication between Active Directory sites with PowerShell
In Active Directory when you change something, it’s replicated to other Domain Controllers regularly. It’s a standard procedure that happen…
Just different approach to Active Directory Password Notifications
A long time ago I’ve maintained a C# version of Password Expiry reminders. It was working based on HTML templates…
Mastering Active Directory Hygiene: Automating SIDHistory Cleanup with CleanupMonster
Security Identifier (SID) History is a useful mechanism in Active Directory (AD) migrations. It allows users and groups in a new domain to…
Mastering Active Directory Hygiene: Automating Stale Computer Cleanup with CleanupMonster
Have you ever looked at your Active Directory and wondered, “Why do I still have computers listed that haven’t been turned on since World C…
Monitoring Active Directory Changes on Users and Groups with PowerShell
Working as Administrator with Active Directory can be rewarding. You can easily deploy new settings, make changes to users even…
Monitoring LDAPS connectivity/certificate with PowerShell
Some time ago, I wrote a blog post on checking for LDAP, LDAPS, LDAP GC, and LDAPS GC ports with PowerShell. It mostly works, but it requir…
Monitoring User, Groups Changes in Active Directory – version 0.8
💡 Little introduction Event Monitoring solution written in PowerShell is an event library (Get-EventsLibrary.ps1) script that parses Secur…
Office 365 – onmicrosoft.com address missing from user synchronized from Active Directory
Onmicrosoft.com address is standard email address used by Office 365. While usually Clients tend to use their own domains onmicrosoft.com…
PowerShell – Everything you wanted to know about Event Logs and then some
If you feel this title is very familiar to you it’s because I actually have stolen the title from Kevin Marquette. I’m in awe of his posts…
Prepare Windows 10 Start Menu for all computers in Active Directory
Windows 10 in my humble opinion is very good system. It has it’s pros and cons but so does each…
PSWinDocumentation – Audit Active Directory Passwords
If you’re paying attention to what’s happening around the world now you probably know Have I Been Pwned service by now. You probably know t…