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…
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…
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 |…
Get battery health report on Windows laptop
You can gen easily two reports about your laptop battery under Windows 10. Simply press [Windows]+[R] and type [cmd]. Once in command line window you can use these two commands…
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…
How to activate Windows Server Core 2019 from command line
After you’ve logged into Windows Server Core, you’re presented with the Command Prompt. From there, you can activate your copy of Windows. First, you have to set the key. You…
Get list of installed software on machine from command line
This is handy command line if you want pull quickly list of installed software on the machine. You can output it in to terminal or into text file for latter.…
Remove all Group Membership from Disabled user except Domain User Group in PowerShell
Here is quick PowerShell script to remove ALL Group Membership from Disabled user in Active Directory. We will remove all Group membership from this user except Domain User group. So…
Report on user count in Active Directory with PowerShell
Here is quick [easyazon_link identifier="1787122042" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] PowerShell [/easyazon_link] script that provides information on user count in [easyazon_link identifier="1782175997" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] Active directory [/easyazon_link]: Total Number of All user accounts…