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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,…
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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…
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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…
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NSLookup still showing IP of demoted Domain Controller
So had an interesting issue today where a Domain Controller (DC) was demoted yet the IP of the demoted DC was still…
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Speed up Active Directory & DNS replication between Sites
Using the standard GUI Microsoft Management Consoles to make the change to speed up Active Directory replication is not possible. The best result of using administrator consoles will be…
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The Lazy Way To Do Active Directory Inventory
From time to time admins have to run an inventory of what is running in the AD environment. This is a good…
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Lists all users last logon time
As administrators we often want to check which users have not logged in for quite a while, or what accounts recently accessed a system,…
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Connecting to a remote domain controller using PowerShell
Covering one of the basic day to day task if you are a Windows Administrator; connecting to the domain controller. Â I try…
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Create A Dedicated Account To Join Computers To A Domain
Admins often need to automate things, like creating a dedicated account for joining machines to an Active Directory (AD) domain. Â This is…
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Set password never to expire for users in a particular domain (Bulk mode)
Let me start by saying that I don’t recommend doing this at all. Password Never Expires is bad security practice, but there…