Renew Active Directory User Password Without Knowing It

Posted on November 14, 2018 by edemilliere

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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 →

Regular Expression PowerShell RegEx

Posted on July 20, 2018 by edemilliere

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

Posted on February 19, 2018 by edemilliere

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 →

Active Directory Password not Required

Posted on August 28, 2017 by edemilliere

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 Delegation PowerShell

Posted on May 15, 2017 by edemilliere

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 Features

Posted on May 2, 2017 by edemilliere

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 →

Check Global Address List Compliance PowerShell

Posted on February 10, 2017 by edemilliere

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 →

Active Directory Security Report PowerShell

Posted on February 6, 2017 by edemilliere

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

Posted on January 30, 2017 by edemilliere

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

Posted on December 12, 2016 by edemilliere

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 →

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Renew Active Directory User Password Without Knowing It

Regular Expression PowerShell RegEx

Create Skype Online Contact Active Directory

Active Directory Password not Required

Active Directory Delegation PowerShell

Active Directory PowerShell Module Features

Check Global Address List Compliance PowerShell

Active Directory Security Report PowerShell

Active Directory PowerShell ADSI ADSISearcher

Change Active Directory Copy Behavior