Add SMTP-ProxyAddress to users in AD with PowerShell
Here is a quick way to add new SMTP/ProxyAddress for the users in Active Directory with use of PowerShell. Create a csv file with two columns samaccountname | emailaddress john.doe …
PowerShell – AD Group management
Here are few quick one liners such as add user to 2 AD groups at same time: "Managers","SalesRep" | Add-ADGroupMember -Members ` (Read-Host -Prompt "Enter User Name") Add multiple user…
Check status of Microsoft AntiMalware
Here is a quick snippet to show current status of Microsoft Antimalware on your Windows 10 computer. [cc lang="PowerShell"] Clear-Host Write-Host Write-Host "CURRENT STATUS " -Foregroundcolor yellow -BackgroundColor red Write-Host…
PowerShell to view BIOS version on Dell computer
Here are few commands that you can use to view info about BIOS on DELL computers: List manufacture and version of BIOS Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_BIOS | Select-Object Manufacturer, SMBIOSBIOSVersion You…
Check if user is member of the group
Here is another quick PowerShell script to check if user is a member of given group. [cc lang="PowerShell"] Clear-Host if (Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name ActiveDirectory) { Import-Module ActiveDirectory } else {…
Get Computer Vendor and model via PowerShell
Simple script to get information via PowerShell from the computer about model of the machine and vendor. Clear-Host Write-Host Write-Host * Get Computer Vendor and Model information * -ForegroundColor white…
Get AD Group Creation Date
Here is quick one liner hot to get a report on when Active Directory group has been created. This could be asked during audits so here is the PowerShell one…
Get list of Departments and number of users per Department in PowerShell
I need to create a report from Active Directory. I need to provide list of all Departments and headcount per Department. Here is quick PowerShell that will list all Departments…
List users from 3 different Active Directory Groups with PowerShell
Here is a quick sample of Power Shell snippet to list users from 3 different Active Directory groups: Import-Module ActiveDirectory $groups = "AWS-IAM-PCI-Prod-Admin","AWS-IAM-PCI-Prod-Deploy","AWS-IAM-PCI-Prod-Monitoring" foreach($group in $groups){Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $group -Recursive |…
Find out the current version of the Active Directory Schema
Quick one liner to find out current version of the Active Directory Schema on your network especially of you have mix of servers. Using dsquery utility: dsquery * cn=schema,cn=configuration,dc=domainname,dc=local -scope…