Connect Office 365 Services PowerShell
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Office 365 is in constant update and evolution, and so are its management and administration services. There is a lot of PowerShell ways, modules, session and prerequisites that you can use. Continue reading
Check Global Address List Compliance PowerShell
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When migrating to Office 365 from various exotic messaging system, you usually hit the fact that Active Directory isn’t a reflect of the situation. Especially when you’re looking at the attributes that are used for building the global address list for Exchange Online and Skype Online. Continue reading
Create Custom MMC Toolbox
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We’re all used to use Microsoft Management Console (MMC) for Active Directory, WSUS, Disk Management, or any other Microsoft product. You can also use MMC to create a toolbox for your operators or helpdesk staff to ease their job and increase their productivity. Continue reading
Active Directory Security Report PowerShell
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Active Directory is one of the most critical system in your infrastructure, we saw previously how to get some basic information about how you’re using it, and get some statistics about the users, computers and groups. Continue reading
Active Directory PowerShell ADSI ADSISearcher
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You have several ways to query Active Directory with PowerShell, some of them have prerequisites on the client, the server, or none. Today, we’ll see a few examples of such tools. Continue reading
Change Active Directory Copy Behavior
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Just like the tombstone behavior, the copy behavior can be altered to fir your needs. This is the same concept as before, you just need to change the SearchFlags attribute in your schema. In fact, you can alter a lot of basic functionality of Active Directory this way. Continue reading
Change Active Directory TombStone Behavior
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By default, without Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Recycle Bin, when you delete an object, it goes to the tombstone. This is a special container with all deleted objects from the current domain. Continue reading
Active Directory Metadata PowerShell
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Active Directory metadata are a very interesting subject. In the old days, we used to use repadmin.exe tool to access them. Nowadays, PowerShell is here to help. Continue reading
Windows Server 2016 New AD Schema Objects
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With Windows Server 2016, Active Directory Domain Services got some new attributes. The schema got updated through the Technical Preview : Continue reading
Active Directory Users Computers Statistics
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If you administer an Active Directory domain, you may want to know about some statistics of it. Like the total number of users, how many of them are disabled, password expire, used to be an admin ? Continue reading