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 controllers (DC) , their IPs, and what FSMO roles does a DC hold. Wrote a little script to just do that…

Posted in Active Directory, PowerShell, WindowsTagged active, controller, controllers, directory, domain, fsmo, mulii, roles, server, windows

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

Posted on November 8, 2022November 8, 2022 by mo wasay

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...

Force synchronization for DFSR-replicated SYSVOL

Posted on April 22, 2020April 23, 2020 by mo wasay

One of my clients had a problem with processing GPO on client computers. Different computers applied different settings from the same GPO but from different domain controllers. All tests related to replication was successful, all GPOs are applied, but replication between domain controllers was a problem, and because of that...

Get Inactive Users Report for the past 60 days in a multi domain environment

Posted on February 18, 2020September 18, 2022 by mo wasay

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...

Get Primary, Secondary, Tertiary DNS values and more from Multiple Servers

Posted on February 13, 2020September 18, 2022 by mo wasay

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...

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