Active Directory depends on DNS for name resolution and locating resources on a network. DNS has a database that maintains resource records, which helps identify…
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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…
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PowerShell – AD Group management
Here are few quick one liners such as add user to 2 AD groups at same time: 12"Managers","SalesRep" | Add-ADGroupMember -Members ` (Read-Host -Prompt "Enter…
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Export users SamAccountName from Email address csv file
Quick PowerShell script to accomplish a task to get a list of users by SamAccountName from provided csv file with email addresses. The csv file…
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Check status of Microsoft AntiMalware
Here is a quick snippet to show current status of Microsoft Antimalware on your Windows 10 computer. 12345Clear-Host Write-Host Write-Host "CURRENT STATUS " -Foregroundcolor yellow…
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Check if user is member of the group
Here is another quick PowerShell script to check if user is a member of given group. 1234567891011121314151617181920Clear-Host if (Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name ActiveDirectory) { Import-Module ActiveDirectory…
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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…
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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: 123Import-Module ActiveDirectory $groups = "AWS-IAM-PCI-Prod-Admin","AWS-IAM-PCI-Prod-Deploy","AWS-IAM-PCI-Prod-Monitoring" foreach($group in…
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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…
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PowerShell – Get user’s Manager, Department and Title information
Here is another quick helper for Help Desk guys to pull quickly information about user in PowerShell: SamAccountName Title Department Manager In this case the…
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