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Active Directory Scripting Highlight: Test Basic Network Connectivity with PowerShell
Throughout my work with domain migrations, there are inevitably some very basic steps before getting deep into User attributes, Groups, Computers, and the myriad of ways that client applications use Active Directory that need to be transitioned to a new … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, ADMT, PowerShell
Tagged ADMT, McShinsky, Migration, Networt, Port 389, PowerShell, Test-NetConnection
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Active Directory Scripting Highlight: Identify and Move Active Directory Operations Master Roles with PowerShell
Getting your bearings and knowing everything you can about a Forest/Domain you are migrating is key. Which domain controllers in the Forest and Domains hold the Operation Masters roles is one of those important details as you modify or decommission … Continue reading
Active Directory Script Highlight: Simple HTML Export of all Group Policy Object Details
So once you have cleaned up your group policies like I outlined in my last two Active Directory Scripts Highlights, what’s next? In this article I have a couple of variations of scripts using the Get-GPOReport cmdlet that will allow … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell
Tagged displayname, get-gpo, Get-GPOReport, Group Policy, GUID, Html, ItemType, New-Item, ReportType
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Active Directory Script Highlight: Group Policy Object Cleanup and Efficiency
Going a step further from the previous post with a little more detail, the script below adds of GPOStatus, and version increment number for Computer and Users section for each Group Policy. Get-GPO -All | Sort GPOStatus | Format-Table Displayname, … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell
Tagged AllSettingEnabled, ComputerVersion, creationtime, displayname, dsversion, Expression, get-gpo, GPOStatus, PowerShell, UserVersion
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Active Directory Script Highlight: Pre-Migration Group Policy Inventory and Cleanup
Todays Active Directory cleanup topic looks at Group Policy Objects. In most of the environments I have prepared for migrations, old Group Policy objects are another problem area that should be cleaned up before an Active Directory migration. In many … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell
Tagged ADMT, ComputerVersion, creationtime, get-gpo, Get-GPOReport, Migration, modificationtime, UserVersion
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Active Directory Script Highlight: Identify Old Computer Objects Before AD Migrations
In the last of my Active Directory cleanup post, I have given you some options to identify, disable, and move User objects based on a certain time of inactivity. In this post I am going to give you some simple … Continue reading
Spectre/Meltdown Update: Haswell and Broadwell Processors Now Have The Production Go Ahead From Intel
Both Dell and HP have released System ROMs to protected against the Spectre variant 2 vulnerabity for their Haswell and Broadwell line of servers which encompasses most of the PowerEdge 13G line and the HP Gen9 server lines. Last week … Continue reading
HP Gen10/Skylake-SP Servers now have a new System ROM available for Spectre Vulnerability.
HP has released key System ROMs for their Proliant Gen10 servers to mitigate Variant 2 vulnerabilities for Spectre. See the release notes HERE Explanation of different Variants of the Spectre/Meltdown Vulnerabilities from HP’s article (Release Microcode pertains to Variant 2): … Continue reading
Active Directory Script Highlight: Disable and Move Users Who Have Not Logged on In 180 Days
In my last post I showed a simple script to identify users that have not logged on in the last 180 days and export basic information to a CSV file. This allowed you to look through the list and determine … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, PowerShell
Tagged AccountInactive, Disable-ADAccount, Move-ADObject, PowerShell, Search-ADAccount, SearchBase, TimeSpan
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Active Directory Script Highlight: Identify User Not Logged in in 180 days
Domain migrations are in full swing so I thought I would start to share some of the scripts used in the process. This one identifies users that have not logged on in over 180 days. The thought behind this is … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, PowerShell
Tagged AccountInactive, lastlogondate, Search-ADAccount, Users
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