Active Directory

Active Directory Health Check using Microsoft Entra Connect Health Service

Active Directory (AD) is crucial in managing identities and resources within an organization. Ensuring its health is pivotal for the…

2 months ago

Report Active Directory Accounts that are Synchronized with Azure AD

I was scrolling X (aka Twitter) today and saw this blog post, "PowerShell: Report On-Premises Active Directory Accounts that are…

4 months ago

Strengthening Password Security in Active Directory: A PowerShell-Powered Approach

PasswordSolution uses the DSInternals PowerShell module to gather Active Directory hashes and then combines that data into a prettified report.…

7 months ago

Reporting group membership for critical Active Directory groups

I work a lot with Active Directory-related tasks. One of the tasks is to know the group membership of critical…

1 year ago

Finding duplicate DNS records by IP Address using PowerShell

In my earlier blog post, I showed you a way to find duplicate DNS entries using PowerShell, but the focus…

1 year ago

Finding duplicate DNS entries using PowerShell

Today's blog post is about Active Directory-integrated DNS and how to find duplicate entries. By duplicate, I mean those where…

1 year ago

Finding duplicate SPN with PowerShell

Duplicate SPNs aren't very common but can happen in any Active Directory as there's no built-in way that tracks and…

2 years ago

Active Directory Domain Services could not replicate the directory partition – The replication operation encountered a database error

If you ever encounter an error while trying to create a new domain within a forest saying, "The replication operation…

2 years ago

Monitoring LDAPS connectivity/certificate with PowerShell

Some time ago, I wrote a blog post on checking for LDAP, LDAPS, LDAP GC, and LDAPS GC ports with…

3 years ago

The only command you will ever need to understand and fix your Group Policies (GPO)

I've been working on cleaning up Group Policies for a couple of months. While it may seem trivial, things get…

3 months ago