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Get All DCs in the Entire Forest

March 6, 2019 by mo wasay

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:

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

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

Convert a Dynamic IP to Static

October 18, 2018 by mo wasay

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 to script it. Here is a quick way to do it via PowerShell.

#SwitchIPtoStatic.ps1
#Get All the adapters that are on the Server
$adapters = gwmi -cl win32_networkadapterconfiguration | ? {($_.ipaddress) -and $_.dhcpEnabled -eq 'True' }

foreach ($adapter in $adapters) {
    # Get original settings
    $ipAddress = $adapter.IPAddress
    $subnetMask = $adapter.IPSubnet
    $dnsServers = $adapter.DNSServerSearchOrder
    $defaultGateway = $adapter.DefaultIPGateway

    # Set to static and set dns and gateway:
    $adapter.EnableStatic($ipAddress,$subnetMask)
    $adapter.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($dnsServers)
    $adapter.SetGateways($defaultGateway)
}

#SwitchIPtoStatic.ps1

#Get All the adapters that are on the Server

$adapters = gwmi -cl win32_networkadapterconfiguration | ? {($_.ipaddress) -and $_.dhcpEnabled -eq 'True' }

foreach ($adapter in $adapters) {

# Get original settings

$ipAddress = $adapter.IPAddress

$subnetMask = $adapter.IPSubnet

$dnsServers = $adapter.DNSServerSearchOrder

$defaultGateway = $adapter.DefaultIPGateway

# Set to static and set dns and gateway:

$adapter.EnableStatic($ipAddress,$subnetMask)

$adapter.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($dnsServers)

$adapter.SetGateways($defaultGateway)

}

Hope this helps!

Add Alternate Email Address or Recovery Email Address for Office365 Administrator

September 6, 2017 by mo wasay

In Office365, depending on the admin role of an account you may want to add an alternate email address for password recovery. This is a basically a self-service password reset for Administrators of Office365. Quick way to do this is with PowerShell:

#Connect to Office365
Import-Module MSOnline
Connect-MsolService
$O365Cred = Get-Credential
$O365Session = New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $O365Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $O365Session

#Check if the user has an Alternate Email Address (Recovery Address)
Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName mwasay@domain.com | select -ExpandProperty AlternateEmailaddresses

#Check if the user has an Alternate Email Address (Recovery Address)
Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName mwasay@domain.com -AlternateEmailAddresses mwasay@domain2.com

#Connect to Office365

Import-Module MSOnline

Connect-MsolService

$O365Cred = Get-Credential

$O365Session = New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $O365Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $O365Session

#Check if the user has an Alternate Email Address (Recovery Address)

Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName mwasay@domain.com | select -ExpandProperty AlternateEmailaddresses

#Check if the user has an Alternate Email Address (Recovery Address)

Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName mwasay@domain.com -AlternateEmailAddresses mwasay@domain2.com

If this setting is unset for an administrator, Office365 gives you a … Read more

Resolve IP Addresses from List of Host Names

April 25, 2017 by mo wasay

If you have a list of hostnames/servers that you need IP addresses for its cumbersome to ping each server and get the ip address. PowerShell to the rescue! To do this we need a file called Server.txt with each server’s hostname on each line. I am storing the file in D:\Data\Servers.txt. Once we run the … Read more

Creating Security Groups for File Shares in Bulk using PowerShell

February 8, 2017 by mo wasay

Security Groups are great for managing large groups for permissions. A client requested that they needed to have Read-Only, Read-Write, and Ready-Modify (allow for deleting) for all their file shares for better management. Getting the Share Names In order for me to create the groups I needed the share names. PowerShell to the rescue! Type … Read more

Remove duplicates, blank lines, spaces, to get unique values and sort data in one operation

February 8, 2017February 7, 2017 by mo wasay

From time to time I come across this need; where I need to scrub a file where there are duplicates, there are blank lines, the sort order is all wack, and it just needs to be formatted to where it can be more readable and/or usable. This method just doesn’t apply to text, but also … Read more

How to force update GlobalAddressList in Office 365?

December 7, 2016 by mo wasay

This post explains how to manually force and update the global address list in Office 365. Updating the global address list requires to have the Address List Management role. By default, nobody has this role. 1. Assign the AddressList Management role Login with your administrator account to the Office 365 portal. Go to Exchange Admin … Read more

Windows: Hide Internet Explorer 11 address bar & navigation bar

September 29, 2016September 11, 2016 by mo wasay

Applies to: Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2012R2, Windows 10 There are two ways this can be accomplished depending on your needs for the controlled environment. GPO: I would like to first clarify that there is not a single GPO to just hide TABS in IE11. There is however a way you can enforce IE in Full … Read more

Excel: Check email addresses in bulk if format is correct or not

August 25, 2016 by mo wasay

So had a request today to clean up email addresses as some of them were not valid. This was needed for over 1500 email addresses. So used the formula below and was able to find all addresses that were “FALSE”. I filtered them out and was able to fix them as needed. Here’s what you … Read more