DNS is one of the core components for Active Directory Domain Services. In a disaster scenario, it becomes impossible to locate resources within the network and...
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- August 12, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
Mohammed Wasay
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 on to...
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- August 8, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
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 account in...
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- July 2, 2019
- Windows
Find why an account is getting locked out and where
Many a times there comes a request that a user complains that an account is getting locked out for no apparent reason and it’s hard to...
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- June 6, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
List all SPNs in Active Directory
Ran into a situation where I needed to get all the SPNs that are listed in AD. Find duplicate SPNs Listing duplicate SPNs is fairly easy, just use setspn...
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- May 29, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
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. Wrote a...
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- March 6, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
Determine & Change Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory
Recently, I wanted to know what the tombstone lifetime was in my environment and decided to find this using PowerShell. There are a number of ways...
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- February 5, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
How to Enable or Disable Collect Activity History in Windows 10
Microsoft Windows 10 still collects activity data even when tracking is disabled., but there is a new workaround way to block it. 🙂 Starting with Windows 10...
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- December 13, 2018
- Windows
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 one…I needed...
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- October 18, 2018
- PowerShell
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. To save...
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- September 14, 2018
- PowerShell Windows