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List Domain Admins & Enterprise Admins in a domain

If you want to find out how many domain/ enterprise admins are active/inactive in domain you can use the following PowerShell command to figure out: Get the list of domain admins and check if they are enabled.

Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "Domain Admins" -Recursive | %{Get-ADUser -Identity $_.distinguishedName} | Select Name, Enabled

1	Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "Domain Admins" -Recursive \| %{Get-ADUser -Identity $_.distinguishedName} \| Select Name, Enabled

Get the list of enterprise admins and check if they are enabled.

Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "Enterprise Admins" -Recursive | %{Get-ADUser -Identity $_.distinguishedName} | Select Name, Enabled

1	Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "Enterprise Admins" -Recursive \| %{Get-ADUser -Identity $_.distinguishedName} \| Select Name, Enabled

Date April 19, 2018
Author mo wasay
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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:. […]

Date November 9, 2017
Author mo wasay
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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. I try to minimize logging onto servers as much as possible. Your thought should be around connecting to the server remotely and doing the work as needed instead of natively logging on to it. I […]

Date April 25, 2017
Author mo wasay
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Delete Files and Folders Older Than X Days

Often times admin have to creates tasks like removing log files or some other files on a regular schedule. Here is an automated way of removing files / folders older than X days. Create a Batch file or Powershell script and add it to scheduled task. Batch File:

@echo off
:: set folder path
set dump_path=c:\shares\dump

:: set min age of files and folders to delete
set max_days=7

:: remove files from %dump_path%
forfiles -p %dump_path% -m *.* -d -%max_days% -c "cmd  /c del /q @path"

:: remove sub directories from %dump_path%
forfiles -p %dump_path% -d -%max_days% -c "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"

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@echo off

:: set folder path

set dump_path=c:\shares\dump

:: set min age of files and folders to delete

set max_days=7

:: remove files from %dump_path%

forfiles -p %dump_path% -m *.* -d -%max_days% -c "cmd /c del /q @path"

:: remove sub directories from %dump_path%

forfiles -p %dump_path% -d -%max_days% -c "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"

Powershell:

# set folder path
$dump_path = "C:\shares\dump"

# set min age of files
$max_days = "-7"
 
# get the current date
$curr_date = Get-Date

# determine how far back we go based on current date
$del_date = $curr_date.AddDays($max_days)

# delete the files
Get-ChildItem $dump_path -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $del_date } | Remove-Item

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# set folder path

$dump_path = "C:\shares\dump"

# set min age of files

$max_days = "-7"

# get the current date

$curr_date = Get-Date

# determine how far back we go based on current date

$del_date = $curr_date.AddDays($max_days)

# delete the files

Get-ChildItem $dump_path -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $del_date } | Remove-Item

Date January 4, 2017
Author mo wasay
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Bulk removal of Password Never Expires checkbox in AD

No one intends this but it is a problem that sooner or later you will be come across in your system administrator career. I’ve see this resolved many different ways, but I like to narrow it down to a particular OU. Depending on your case you may want to clean this across the board in […]

Date July 23, 2015
Author mo wasay
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