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
Find Mail Domain Used Exchange
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All Exchange and Skype addresses for each user are stored in Active Directory. All those information are stored in the “ProxyAddresses” attribute. This is a multi-valued attribute with one address per line. Continue reading
Interesting Active Directory LDAP Filters
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Hereunder some interesting LDAP filters to checkout on your Active Directory to better understand some behaviors. Continue reading
Sync UsageLocation from Active Directory
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When using Office 365, you need to have some kind of sync engine. the preferred one from Microsoft is “Azure Active Directory Connect” (AADConnect). By default, it sync a lot of attributes, but each time you assign a license on a user, you still need to specify a “Usage location”, and then, a license SKU. Continue reading
Windows Server 2016 TP 5 Active Directory
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Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 introduced two new Active Directory schema attributes from the 4th TP : Continue reading
Trigger Active Directory Bitlocker Key Backup
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Bitlocker has features that allow you to backup the keys in your Active Directory, or to a SQL database if you have access to Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). Continue reading
ADMT Windows Server 2016
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Microsoft released a special version of ADMT for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 r2 a while back. I just tested this version with Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, it worked ! Continue reading
Get last Active Directory Backup date
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Backing up your Active Directory is an essential step you need to perform on a regular basis, this will ensure that you can restore individual object, or previous state of individual objects. Continue reading
Configure Active Directory Backup
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If you want to be able to restore some Active Directory objects, you need to backup your domain before. Remember, the recycle-bin introduced in 2008 R2 can only restore deleted items, but cannot restore previous state of an existing object. Continue reading
Privileged Access Management Directory Services
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In Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, Microsoft unveiled a brand new feature, very much welcome. Privileged Access Management feature, this will allow you to replace your dynamic objects. This feature allow you to give group membership based on a time to live. Continue reading