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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 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

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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

Date March 6, 2019
Author mo wasay
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Determine & Change Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory

Recently, I wanted to know what the tombstone lifetime was in my environment and decided to find this using PowerShell. There are a number of ways I could do this but dong it through PowerShell would be much easier. For those of you that are new to the attribute, a good explanation of it is: […]

Date February 5, 2019
Author mo wasay
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Convert a Dynamic IP to Static

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)
}

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#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!

Date October 18, 2018
Author mo wasay
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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 […]

Date September 14, 2018
Author mo wasay
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Oracle to charge for Java Updates & how you can disable them

Prepare for 2019 Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for “Business, Commercial or Production use” without a commercial license. End of Public Updates for Oracle JDK 8 Is Oracle Java still free? The current version of Java – Java SE 9 as well as Java […]

Date August 7, 2018
Author mo wasay
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All of Windows Cipher Suites

Working on a security project and I needed a reference guide as to what cipher suites are supported on what OS. So I have documented a list of the default cipher suites and their preferred order for every Windows Server version. These were gathered from fully patched operating systems.

Date May 15, 2018
Author mo wasay
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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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ConfigMgr 2012 R2 – WSUS sync fails with HTTP 503 errors

Ran into this issue with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 where it was unable to synchronize Software Update Point with the WSUS server. A review of the component status messages for the SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER component on the primary site server reveals errors related to WSUS synchronization which are similar to the following: Got the following error when trying […]

Date March 19, 2018
Author mo wasay
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Active Directory and Kerberos SPNs Made Easy!

What Is an SPN? An SPN is a reference to a specific service, for example, an instance of SQL or a web application run by IIS. Since SPNs are specific, they reference not only what the service is (such as an SQL server), but also which hostname runs the instance and on which port it’s […]

Date August 17, 2017
Author mo wasay
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Guide to migrate FRS to DFSR

For most users this article only applies if you have Window 2003/ 2003 R2 Domain Controller in your enviornment that you are planning to get rid off. Pretty soon I hope! 😉 SYSVOL is a folder shared by domain controller to hold its logon scripts, group policies and other items related to AD. All the […]

Date June 21, 2017
Author mo wasay
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mo wasay

Get All DCs in the Entire Forest

Determine & Change Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory

Convert a Dynamic IP to Static

Force Replication of all Domain Controllers on all Sites

All of Windows Cipher Suites

ConfigMgr 2012 R2 – WSUS sync fails with HTTP 503 errors

Active Directory and Kerberos SPNs Made Easy!

Guide to migrate FRS to DFSR

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Dallas based Design Technologist & Hybrid Developer

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