Automating Active Directory User Updates with PowerShell
Synopsis: This blog post demonstrates how to use PowerShell and the Active Directory module to automate user updates in Active Directory. The script reads user...
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Collecting Active Directory Forest Information with PowerShell
retrieve valuable information about an Active Directory forest and its domain controllers. By leveraging PowerShell’s capabilities and the Active Directory module, we can gather details...
A PowerShell Function to Get the Current Logged-In User
The Get-LoggedIn function in PowerShell is used to return the current logged-in user of a remote machine. The function takes a list of computer names...
Simple PowerShell Function to Get System Uptime
The function Get-Uptime calculates and displays system uptime on a local machine or remote machine. It takes a single parameter, ComputerName, which specifies the computer’s...
Set the Timezone and Configure NTP on Windows Server
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a highly scalable internet protocol that determines the best time information and synchronizes accurate settings on a computer system. This...
Get Duplicate users in a forest
(Get-aduser -filter * -server Domainname:3268 | Group-Object -Property UserprincipalName | ?{$PSItem.Count -gt 1 -and $PSItem.Name -ne “”}).group |export-csv c:\temp\duplic.csv -NoTypeInformation
Testing open ports With PowerShell
We can use PowerShell to test remote port connectivity without installing telnet and with the use of the Test-NetConnection command. To check if the remote...
Share folder permissions
#Share Folder Path $FolderPath = dir -Path “\\server1.vmwarenterprise.com\Reports\” -Recurse -Directory -Force$Report = @()Foreach ($Folder in $FolderPath) {$Acl = Get-Acl -Path $Folder.FullNameforeach ($Access in $acl.Access){$Properties =...
Get DC replication time response
foreach($d in (get-adforest).domains){$v = Measure-Command {get-addomaincontroller -Filter * -Server $d}Write-Output “Took $($v.TotalSeconds) to Enumerate DCS in $d “}
Creating and Removing domain accounts in each domain in a forest
Created domain account in each domain add it to domain admin group $domains = (get-adforest).domainsforeach($domain in $domains){$accountname = ‘s-coe-‘+($domain -split “.”)[0]+’-DA’$accountpass = ‘P@ssword123456’ | ConvertTo-SecureString...
