This is my last article on this WebBlog and I will be writing all new articles on my new website https://thecloudcurry.com. Recently I wrote a Powershell GUI script to collect information from Microsoft Azure, you can view the video this is how it works. I am still working on the script and adding…
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Push SSL certificates to client computers using Group Policy
In my earlier article I shown how to Generate new self-signed certificates for ESXi using OpenSSL. Importing this certificate in local certificates store is good for single computer or 2-3 systems, but may be tedious task if you want to maintain it on more than 10 systems, think what happens if the…
Powershell Active Directory 2: Check, enable and disable child OU protect object from accidental deletion
This script is second part of article Powershell Active Directory 1: Check, enable and disable child OU protect object from accidental deletion, In this script I have added enable and disable option, Usage are the same as first script. here is my complete OU hierarchy, There are two newly added …
Powershell Active Directory 1: Check, enable and disable child OU protect object from accidental deletion
This script can be used to check the OU (Organization Unit) protect object from accidental deletion status. it provides other OU related information for reporting and inventory purpose. Inventory is generated using ActiveDirectory powershell module.
This report includes parent OU and all it…
PowerShell Active Directory: Sync group membership from one user to another user and move to OU
Again I received some good feedback from community, This article is just a next update to my existing script PowerShell: Copy group membership from one user to another user in Active Directory, whose purpose is adding groups on member of tab on destination users and not removing anything. Which was…
PowerShell GUI: Copy group membership from one user to another user in Active Directory
This is a GUI part of my earlier written script PowerShell: Copy group membership from one user to another user in Active Directory. I converted same script to GUI written in WPF language for simplifying task. It requires Source User and Destination users list is loaded from text file. (Text file c…
PowerShell: Copy group membership from one user to another user in Active Directory
In the past, I received multiple emails asking for a script, subject was copying group membership from one user to another user in AD. I thought of writing a reusable script code and so anyone can and use it. Copy groups membership from one user to another user tasks can be lengthy and takes lots of…
Powshell GUI Date and Time converter tool
Recently I was working on a setting and automating a small project, this environment had very limited access to internet because of restrictions, Only required external partner websites were accessible. Users were using change management tool, they had to schedule times for change and company were s…
Adding active directory group to computer local administrator Group using Group Policy Object - Part 2
This is the second part of my earlier article Adding user to domain administrators from another cross domain - Part 1 where I setup cross domain trust and added cross domain user to AD administrators group for management purpose. After getting access over acquired company Active Directory domain co…
Adding user to domain administrators from another cross domain - Part 1
I was working on one of the company acquiring project where I wanted to add users from another forest root domain to domain admins, but as Domain admins being global group, group that can be used in its own domain, in member servers and in workstations of the domain, and in trusting domains. In all …
Creating a password reset tool with PowerShell GUI
One of the my blog reader, came across one of the article written on generating random password gui using powershell by me, and he contacted me as he wanted a small help on creating one GUI utility ADUser reset password. Below are the detailed information he provided in the email what exactly …
Configure SNMP on ESXi Server GUI :Vmware Best Practices
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a popular protocol for network management. It is used for collecting information from, and configuring, network devices, such as servers, printers, hubs, switches, and routers on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Here in this article, I am configuring sn…
Oneliner Microsoft Powershell Script Get members list from active directory group in excel
This is my tiny article on gathering members information from active directory groups using windows PowerShell in very easy, I have used one-liner script earlier for creating bulk ad users, This script will get all the members from group and export it to CSV, This is very handy when providing someon…
Powershell Active Directory: Show treeview of nested Group members downstream hierarchy
This script is second part of my earlier article Powershell Active Directory: Show treeview of User or Group memberof hierarchy, earlier was showing upstream tree view of nested MemberOf groups. After writing the first script I got another requirement to show treeview in reverse order, Group member…
Add multiple proxy addresses with Microsoft PowerShell in Active Directory Groups
This article is second part of POWERSHELL ACTIVE DIRECTORY: ADD OR UPDATE PROXYADDRESSES IN USER PROPERTIES ATTRIBUTE EDITOR, In this part, I will be changing proxy addresses on active directory groups using PowerShell script. This is helpful while migration of bulk users and groups to Microsoft Of…
Powershell: Temporary group membership on Windows 2016 Active Directory
This is second part of configuring and architecting AD infrastructure new features. Microsoft has introduced new great feature with Windows Server 2016 Active directory, PAM (Privileged Access Management) Feature, Where user can be added to a group for a particular time. Once that Time to live (TT…
Microsoft Active directory additional features - AD Recycle Bin Powershell
I recently was involved and architected IT infrastructure for one of the small startup group, I deployed Windows Server 2016 server and architected Active Directory infrastructure, Startup staff's work was involved using heavy use of AD API in their own software, creation and deletion of AD accounts…
Microsoft PowerShell: Check Windows license activation status
This script is my version of fetching Microsoft windows license status, this is for streamlining environments and making them compliant as per audit standards, I didn't wrote complete script but this is old wine in new bottle. I have improvised it to get more information and made it dynamic to ge…
Powershell Active Directory: Show treeview of User or Group memberof hierarchy
After going through many testing and successfully streamlining most of the Users and Groups member of in active directory environment using Powershell Active Directory: List complete hierarchy of upstream nested groups recursively of User. I was still facing some of the issues, Earlier script was no…
Powershell Active Directory: List complete hierarchy of upstream nested groups recursively of User
Recently I had seen big mess in one of my client's Active directory environment, AD Groups where keep nested into groups and further, Due to this clients where having hard time to get either exact effective permissions of particular users, and causing users have unnecessary authorization or getting …
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