Programming

Adding an Application Registration\ Service Principal to another Application Registration\ Service Principal

Typically when working with App Roles in Azure Active Directory for a single application registration or service principal and then self consuming that app role as an Application API Permission you would see in the Enterprise Application > Users and Groups blade that service principals are added. Every now and then a question comes up … Read moreAdding an Application Registration\ Service Principal to another Application Registration\ Service Principal

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 in for the past 60 days so action can be taken against them. The request was for a multi domain forest which queries every domain controller and gets the latest lastlogon … Read moreGet Inactive Users Report for the past 60 days in a multi domain environment

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 and got what I wanted. Now this started off as just to query for DNS Server information, but then I thought to add other pieces to get myself a good Network … Read moreGet Primary, Secondary, Tertiary DNS values and more from Multiple Servers

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 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 … Read moreFix Active Directory broken security inheritance problem

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:

 

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 time there is an easier way to force replication on all Domain Controllers of all Active Directory Sites. Log on to one of your Domain Controllers. Start Windows PowerShell … Read moreForce Replication of all Domain Controllers on all Sites

Get .Net Framework Version for the .DLL & .EXE files

Working with many app/dev teams it is hard to find which version of Dot Net  an application was designed or made in. Now if your application server has multiple drives and depending on which drive the application resides it may be hard to find this information. Let’s assume there are two drives C: and D:. … Read moreGet .Net Framework Version for the .DLL & .EXE files

Provisioning a New Office 365 User and Mailbox from Exchange Hybrid via PowerShell

Working with many Office365 clients, I receive queries on how to go about provisioning users and mailboxes for an Exchange hybrid deployment. To begin with, let’s assume a couple things. We have a Windows 2012 R2 member server with Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) version 1.1.105.00 (or newer) and the Azure AD Module for PowerShell installed; … Read moreProvisioning a New Office 365 User and Mailbox from Exchange Hybrid via PowerShell