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 the objects. Basically, security inheritance was broken.This causes a problem when the administrative accounts or groups needing to modify an attribute on the AD object throw errors, or are…
Year: 2019
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 ADUC and then promote it as DC, the UserAccountControl is set to 532512 instead of the default 532480. You need to manually set the vaulue to 532480 in ADSIEDIT.MSC….
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 small little script to provide me all the information I needed:
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Import-Module ActiveDirectory function Get-AllDCsInForest{ [CmdletBinding()] param( [string]$ReferenceDomain = $env:USERDOMAIN ) $ForestObj = Get-ADForest -Server $ReferenceDomain foreach($Domain in $ForestObj.Domains) { Get-ADDomainController -Filter * -Server $Domain | select Domain,HostName,Site, IPv4Address, OperatingSystem, OperatingSystemVersion } } Get-AllDCsInForest| Export-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\AllDcs.txt -NoTypeInformation |