active directory

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…

8 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.…

10 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…

2 years 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…

2 years 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…

2 years 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…

6 months ago

Using Win32_UserAccount WMI filter in PowerShell/Group Policies and what to avoid

Some months ago, I created PowerShell Script to create local administrative users on workstations - Create a local user or…

4 years ago