Typically when working with App Roles in Azure Active Directory for a single application registration or service principal and then self consuming that app […]
Get all the domains controllers in the AD forest along with their current FSMO roles
In a large enterprise an admin would need to keep track of all the domains in a AD forest, the domain names, the domain […]
Force synchronization for DFSR-replicated SYSVOL
One of my clients had a problem with processing GPO on client computers. Different computers applied different settings from the same GPO but from […]
Get Inactive Users Report for the past 60 days in a multi domain environment
I had a request recently to provide an inactive user report for the past 60 days. Basically, find out which accounts have not logged […]
Get Primary, Secondary, Tertiary DNS values and more from Multiple Servers
Came across a unique request to get primary, secondary, and tertiary DNS values for multiple computers/servers across the domain. I started writing the script […]
Fix Active Directory broken security inheritance problem
Ran into a situation at a client location where in Active Directory, the security permissions applied to an OU were not getting inherited permissions […]
How to Fix: Attribute userAccountControl of DC is: 0x82020
When running a DCDiag at a customer site today I had the following error occur: It is a bug when we pre-create a computer […]
Get All DCs in the Entire Forest
Getting a know a new environment for a new client and I a quickly needed information about all domain controllers in the entire forest. […]
Point a Window Client or Server to a particular Domain Controller
When troubleshooting domain controller related issues from a client side there are many things that needs to be checked. Few items that need to […]
Convert a Dynamic IP to Static
Working on a project where on some servers the DHCP assigned addresses needs to be converted to static. Since there is always more than […]