Move all FSMO roles from server to another in Active Directory
Here is one liner to move all FSMO roles from one server to another. In most cases an administrator can keep the FSMO role holders (all 5 of them) in…
Update UPN for group of users or all users in domain
There can be situation when you will need to update UPN for your users in domain. In my situation this change helped to solve my SAML SSO integrations via OKTA…
HOW TO LIST UPN SUFFIXES OF AN ACTIVE DIRECTORY FOREST
The default UPN is contained in the Canonical Name attribute on the Partitions container object in the configuration naming context. The default UPN suffix identifies the domain in which the…
Error: Windows Cannot Find The Microsoft Software License Terms. Make sure the installation sources are valid and restart the installation
You are trying to build your lab on VMware Fusion installed on your Apple Mac Book Pro laptop. You have downloaded latest build [easyazon_link identifier="0134583752" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] Windows Server 2016…
How to Monitor who Deleted DNS Records
It is always good idea to have some sort of monitoring on your [easyazon_link identifier="0134583752" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] servers [/easyazon_link] and be able to retrace steps and find out what happened…
Audit your Active Directory user passwords with PowerShell or other free tools
Trust to your users is one thing but make sure that your user listening and really applying good password is another. It is good practice to run quick audit on…
Bulk update EmployeeID in Active Directory with PowerShell
Here is a quick [easyazon_link identifier="B01NBI97UZ" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] PowerShell [/easyazon_link] script to run users from csv file where you have 2 columns SamAccountName and EmployeeID. Place the csv file on…
Get Account list with Password Never Expire from Active Directory to CSV file
Quick [easyazon_link identifier="B01NBI97UZ" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] PowerShell [/easyazon_link] snippet to pull all accounts from [easyazon_link identifier="1449361420" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] Active Directory [/easyazon_link] with PASSWORD NEVER EXPIRE into CSV report file so you…
List Users and Groups created in Active Directory in the Last 24 Hours
Just quick [easyazon_link identifier="1787126307" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] PowerShell [/easyazon_link] snippet to get list of created users in last 24 hours in your [easyazon_link identifier="B06VYFQNH4" locale="US" tag="wn0d5-20"] Active Directory [/easyazon_link]. $When =…
Windows Admin Center – new tool for administrators
Microsoft lately released to public a new tool known as Project Honolulu. This is now known as Windows Admin Center that is run locally on your Windows 10, Windows Server…