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ADInsight for Active Directory
Mark Russinovich and Bruce Cogswell of Sysinternals fame have release ADInsight for Active Directory as one of the free utilities on their Microsoft Site. This tool I like to call the MRI Scan for AD. It uses DLL injection techniques into all processes...
Posted 07 November 2007 08:31 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Creating Test AD users with Powershell- Improved!
Remember the PoSH add users to AD script? Well, it got picked up by “The Man” himself, Dmitry Sotnikov of PowerGUI fame and he rolled it into a one-liner: 1..500 | ForEach-Object { New-QADUser -ParentContainer ps64.local/test -Name “testuser$_“ -SamAccountName...
Posted 25 October 2007 04:53 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Creating Test Users in AD - Another way...
My good friend and AD Mentor, Jorge de Almeida Pinto pointed me at a much simpler way to do this. Not with PoSH, admittedly, so not as exciting to me right now but it gets the job done and uses Joe Richard 's ADMOD tool: For groups: (replace # with...
Posted 22 October 2007 11:36 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Creating Test AD users with Powershell
Sometime last week on the Microsoft AD newsgroup, someone asked for a script to populate test users in Active Directory using a source text file with he user names and passwords. Of course, several people suggested VB scripts to do the task and Richard...
Posted 22 October 2007 09:42 AM by Austin | 1 comment(s)
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Powershell: Real Glue!
Last Friday Quest software made GA the RC of the ActiveRoles ADcmdlets. This, to me, is another significant milestone in the evolution of Microsoft's new Command line language, Powershell. The versatility continues to amaze me and there is true community...
Posted 16 October 2007 08:08 AM by Austin | with no comments
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More on Euro DEC Part Deux..
One of my favorite sessions was given by Jorge de Almeida Pinto, a well known DS MVP, whose blog is one of the most interesting reads on AD on the web. His talk was on Read Only Domain Controllers (RODCs); what they are and the challenges in managing...
Posted 08 October 2007 07:22 AM by Austin | with no comments
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European Directory Experts Conference 23rd - 26th September 2007
The European Directory Experts Conference was held in Brussels the Capital of Belgium from the 23rd to the Th of September 2007. The AD geek show had been brought to Europe by NetPro and Gil Kirkpatrick, the NetPro CTO, and his Crew! It was a thrill to...
Posted 06 October 2007 11:00 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Forest Functional Level upgrade notes
Make sure forest is healthy wrt replication and all DC event logs are clean. Review the following Articles: How to raise Domain and Forest functional levels in Windows Server 2003 Domain and Forest functionality Enabling Advanced Windows Server 2003 Active...
Posted 16 September 2007 06:03 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Scripting Group Policy settings!
I spent this weekend playing with a beta copy of SDM Softwares' GPExpert Scripting Toolkit kindly advanced to a colleague of mine and I by Darren Mar Ellia, the CTO of SDMS. Darren is one of the better known GPO gurus there are out there and when...
Posted 22 July 2007 07:31 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Directory Experts Conference coming to Europe!
Not sure how many people are aware, but the NetPro sponsored Directory Experts Conference is happening in Brussels 24 th – 26 th of September 2007. This is probably the premier Identity & Access Management and Directory Services conference in the...
Posted 17 July 2007 05:37 PM by Austin | 2 comment(s)
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Quest Software wins Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the year
Quest Software, at the Microsoft Partner conference held in Denver ,won the Global ISV Partner of the Year award for their adoption and use of Powershell. Quests Active Directory cmdlets and stuff from Dmitry Sotnikovs ' PowerGUI team are some of...
Posted 15 July 2007 09:02 AM by Austin | 1 comment(s)
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