Active Directory Security Best Practices: Protect Your Environment. Active Directory (AD) is a vital and critical component of most enterprise IT environments, providing authentication, authorization, and access control services to a wide range of applications and services. As such, ensuring the security of the Active Directory environment is paramount to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and […]
Top 5 Active Directory Powershell Scripts for Active Directory (Users / Groups). Are you a Windows SysAdmin looking to automate routine Active Directory (AD) management tasks and simplify your AD administration tasks? PowerShell scripts help you accomplish this quickly and efficiently. This article explores top 5 Active Directory PowerShell commands for managing users, groups and […]
ADSI Edit: How To Edit Active Directory Using ADSI Edit. Firstly, ADSI (Active Directory Service Interface Editor) Edit allows access and modifies the underlying and unexposed directory service data through ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers). In this article, we discuss the usage of ADSI Edit, including how to access the tool, primary navigation, and […]
Get-ADUser Filter OU – List Users from a Specific OU. Do you need a quick and efficient way to list all the users that belong to a specific Organizational Unit (OU) in Active Directory (AD)? Look no further than the Get-ADUser commandlet. This versatile PowerShell cmdlet has a Filter parameter that determines which users in an […]
DCDiag: How to Check Domain Controller Health using Powershell. DCDiag is a powerful command line tool used to diagnose problems with domain controllers in a Microsoft Windows Active Directory environment. We use it to check the health of domain controllers, identify errors or inconsistencies, and troubleshoot replication issues. DCDiag also helps administrators detect and resolve […]
How to Setup and Manage Active Directory Password Policy. Organizations need a strong password policy now more than ever with the rise in cyberattacks throughout the globe. Sadly, hackers use users and administrators to access company networks, which results in security breaches and compliance failures. This article covers the development and upkeep of a solid […]
Get Members of Active Directory Group and Export to CSV using PowerShell. The Windows PowerShell AD module is one of the most used modules for managing Active Directory (AD) domains and objects and retrieving data about users and computers. The AD module gathers several cmdlets used to control various objects, obtain AD group members, and […]
What is Windows Event Log ID 4740? – A User Account Was Locked Out. Well, if you are an IT professional, you might have come across a situation where a user account gets locked out on your Windows Server. This is due to multiple reasons, such as entering the wrong password multiple times or a […]
Are you trying to find the sAMAccountName of a user in Active Directory? As a SysAdmin, you may come across situations where you need to locate the sAMAccountName of a user in AD. Fortunately, there are multiple tools available to you to perform this task, and in this article, I’ll share five of them. Specifically, […]
How to Add Domain Controller to an Existing Domain. Having one Domain Controller (DC) is not recommended because it creates a single point of failure (SPOF) risk. For example, if the only Domain Controller goes down in the organization, extensive outages result in a loss of operations. Therefore, we need to have a secondary Domain […]