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PSWinDocumentation – Export to Word, Excel, SQL of AD, AWS, Exchange, O365 Exchange, O365 Azure AD
Today I’m pushing forward with PSWinDocumentation project. I’ve fixed some bugs but I also added a couple of new features. I did lie a bit…
PSWinDocumentation – Version 0.1 with Word / Excel export
A few weeks ago I’ve released my first version of PSWinDocumentation. It was simple, one command module where you start it and get some bas…
PSWinReporting 1.0 – Monitoring Active Directrory Events
Few months after initial release a new public version of PSWinReporting 1.0 is released. While the name might not be…
PSWinReporting 1.8 – Split of branches (Legacy vs. New Hope)
A new branch of PSWinReporting is slowly coming, and I thought it would be the best time to have a final article about it with all configur…
PSWinReporting – Forwarders, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Microsoft SQL and more
It’s been a while since PSWinReporting has been updated, or rather since I’ve written a blog post about it since it’s always…
Remove Protect Object setting from Organizational Unit via PowerShell
Sometimes when you want to clean up Active Directory by deleting or moving Organizational Units you get Access Denied error….
Renaming NETBIOS name of Active Directory Error
Recently I was testing renaming the NETBIOS name of an Active Directory domain. While this process is fairly easy, there are a few gotcha’s…
Report Active Directory Accounts that are Synchronized with Azure AD
I was scrolling X (aka Twitter) today and saw this blog post, “PowerShell: Report On-Premises Active Directory Accounts that are Synchroniz…
Reporting group membership for critical Active Directory groups
I work a lot with Active Directory-related tasks. One of the tasks is to know the group membership of critical Active Directory Groups such…
Strengthening Password Security in Active Directory: A PowerShell-Powered Approach
PasswordSolution uses the DSInternals PowerShell module to gather Active Directory hashes and then combines that data into a prettified rep…
Synchronizing Active Directory with External Time Source
One of the crucial parts in modern IT world is proper time and date. While it may seem that 30…
Testing LDAP and LDAPS connectivity with PowerShell
One of the common ways to connect to Active Directory is thru LDAP protocol. There are a lot of applications that talk to AD via LDAP. By d…
The only command you will ever need to understand and fix your Group Policies (GPO)
I’ve been working on cleaning up Group Policies for a couple of months. While it may seem trivial, things get complicated when you’re taske…
The only PowerShell Command you will ever need to find out who did what in Active Directory
While the title of this blog may be a bit exaggeration, the command I’m trying to show here does it’s best to deliver on the promise. What…
The security account manager (SAM) has determined that SID is already in use in the Forest
The security account manager (SAM) has determined that the security identifier (SID) for this computer is already in use in the Forest you…
Using Win32_UserAccount WMI filter in PowerShell/Group Policies and what to avoid
Some months ago, I created PowerShell Script to create local administrative users on workstations – Create a local user or administrator ac…
Visually display Active Directory Nested Group Membership using PowerShell
In the Active Directory PowerShell module, you have two commands to your disposal that help display group membership. Those are Get-ADGroup…
Visually display Active Directory Trusts using PowerShell
Active Directory Trusts are useful to connect one or more domains. But as useful those are, they can be very dangerous. Also, keeping trust…
What do we say to health checking Active Directory?
Setting up a new Active Directory is an easy task. You download and install Windows Server, install required roles and in 4 hours or less h…
What do we say to writing Active Directory documentation?
It’s no secret that nobody likes creating documentation. I don’t like it, and you don’t like it, even documentation lovers don’t like it. B…