Change Active Directory Password Remotely
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Today I wanted to share a small tips about a feature that is not widely known. Indeed, a lot of people deploy AD FS for Office 365 without knowing the full capabilities of this feature.
Continue readingRenew Active Directory User Password Without Knowing It
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Today we’ll how you can renew an Active Directory user password, without knowing it. It can be very convenient when you have a service account with a password expiration but don’t want to change it for whatever reason. It can also save the day when you have one of your VIP user that is in a kind of emergency and need his mailbox access but you can’t change the password be cause he doesn’t have a secure AD access. You can have plenty of reasons to perform that kind of action. Continue reading
Remove Active Directory ACL PowerShell
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We previously saw how to add some ACL to Active Directory, and how to use the PowerShell Active Directory module. Today, we’ll see how to remove some Acces Control Entry (ACE) from an Active Directory Access Control List (ACL). Continue reading
Regular Expression PowerShell RegEx
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Regular Expression is a great concept that can be used by a lot of language. It allows you to recognize string patterns. This is the kind of feature that webmaster use to be sure that you enter your phone number or email address in the expected format. Continue reading
Create Skype Online Contact Active Directory
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In an on premise setup, when you create a contact in Active Directory, fill in the SIP address in ProxyAddresses or MsRtcSip-PrimaryUserAddress and you’re good to go. Continue reading
Invoke Active Directory SDProp Powershell
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Active Directory uses an internal process named SDProp for “Security Descriptor Propagation” to apply different ACLs on high privileges users or groups. The process copy the ACL from the AdminSDHolder to protect those users and groups. You can read a lot more information on a previous article of mine. Continue reading
Active Directory Password not Required
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This is something that is not widely known but you can have a blank password on your Active Directory user account even with a password policy in place, or some Password Setting Objects applying. Continue reading
Active Directory Star Wars PowerShell Module
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Some time ago I talk about how to create Active Directory users based on the Star Wars world. This will help you to create some good tests users for your labs or demo instead of User1, User2 and so on. Continue reading
Active Directory Delegation PowerShell
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Active Directory delegation can be complicated to implement. Get it right can be long and hard depending of your needs. By default, Microsoft offers some delegation trough builtin groups like: Continue reading
Active Directory PowerShell Module
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A quick follow up from an old post, there some bonus feature with the Active Directory module. This module is not as efficient as the ADSI objects shown in the post but hereunder some example of bonus features. Continue reading