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 […]
Force Replication of all Domain Controllers on all Sites
If you want to replicate all Domain Controllers, then you have to start replication on each of them separately. This may take a while. […]