All the How-To’s and best practices you’ll need for Active Directory.
Whether it’s time for spring cleaning or you’re just doing some general cleanup, it’s important to maintain a proper lifecycle around Active Directory groups. Many organizations love creating groups however, some (most?), don’t really like to do cleanup because they’re… Continue Reading
Imagine a scenario where you work for an organization that has just changed it name to something more user friendly. One of things that are asked of the SysAdmins is that they want to be able to change all UserPrincipalNames… Continue Reading
Get-ADUser, Arguably one of the most used cmdlets I use on a day to day basis. I’m sure the same goes for other sysadmins around the world if they’re managing a Windows environment. Today we’re going to do a deep… Continue Reading
If you’ve upgraded or installed Windows 10 20H2 and later, you might have noticed a new item in your taskbar that gets enabled by default. I wasn’t particularly interested in seeing a huge weather forecast along with current news in… Continue Reading
I recently had an issue where SYSVOL and NETLOGON shares missing on my newly promoted domain controller. It turns out the domain was in pretty bad shape so I had to fix domain controller replication, then proceed to figure out… Continue Reading
If you have ever had issues with NETLOGON or SYSVOL folders not replicating across domain controllers you know that it can be a huge pain in the butt. Whether it be your policy definitions folder not replicating or group policy… Continue Reading
A while back I posted a Powershell script to check password expiration’s in your domain. It worked and it got the job done but as I got better with Powershell I decided to take another look at it and refine… Continue Reading
In the previous versions of Windows, you always had to download and install the Remote Server Administration Tools aka RSAT from Microsoft’s page. Many people complained about the fact that every time you would upgrade to a later build, it… Continue Reading
It might come in handy from time to time to drill down on a manager’s direct reports in Active Directory. A good use case is if a director or VP wants to send an email to all of their direct… Continue Reading
Throughout a sysadmin’s career it’s very common to have demoted or decommissioned a domain controller in your domain. With new versions of Windows Server coming out every couple of years, it’s always a good idea to be somewhat up to… Continue Reading