User account management
Here are some basic commands to create and manage accounts in bulk. Account Provisioning 1) AD account creation 1New-ADUser -Name "DisplayName" -GivenName "FirstName" -Surname "LastName" […]
Active Directory
Setting ACLs on OU in AD
Users or groups access and permissions to an AD object is controlled by its Access Control List (ACL). Just like ACLs control access on a […]
Find SMBv1 requests to the domain controllers
Recently i had to find what all clients exist in my domain who are still making SMBv1 requests to our DCs.Well, fist of all you’ll […]
Scheduling a DNS backup
Using this script you can schedule a backup of forward lookup zones and keep the archive for 30 days.
Scheduling a system state backup for your Domain Controller
I don’t know what to write in this block, it is very self-explanatory. If you reached this post it means you are already aware of […]
DHCP export from all Authorized DHCP servers in Domain
This script exports all scope, lease, reservation, scope-options, filters etc information from all DHCP servers to an SMB share. Files older than 30 days are […]
Modifying security filtering of a GPO (in bulk)
I recently had to test a few group policy settings on 20 odd machines. When it was time for me to replace the default “Authenticated […]
Disable inactive AD accounts
I realized many test AD accounts were going unchecked in my AD environment and decided to delete the ones which have not been used in […]
Extract DNS details of multiple servers
I recently helped someone setup DNS scavenging. We wanted to know what we are getting into and needed to confirm that all Servers are configured […]
DNS Scavenging
Scenarios: Say you have setup DNS scavenging but are curious to find what records are going to be deleted in advance and which records actually […]