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Streamlining Port Connectivity Checks in PowerShell
In the ever-evolving landscape of network administration, the ability to quickly and efficiently verify open ports across multiple hosts and destinations is paramount. This task, though crucial, can often be cumbersome and time-consuming. Recently, I found myself in…
Read More »How To: Find all RDS session hosts
If you’re working in a large environment without a lot of management consoles to see the roles deployed in the environment you can do this easy with Active Directory and the magic of script blocks. The below script…
Read More »How to: Find stale servers in Active Directory
For any system engineer working with Active Directory or just about any IT service out there, good IT hygiene (cyber hygiene) is key to maintaining a healthy and manageable environment. For Active Directory it’s a good idea to…
Read More »Create a replica of your Prod AD structure in the Lab
I recently had a request to create a replica of the company AD structure in a lab environment for testing with a new software product. The task involves the exporting and importing of the OUs and groups used…
Read More »Keeping time accurate on your Windows Domain
A simple but common problem I have seen on Windows domains is time drift. Normally it’s a user that logs a ticket pointing out that the clock on their workstation or sometimes application server is wrong. Although this…
Read More »Account Operators full control rights on new accounts
Goal: Limit the permissions on an OU or sub OU to so that the Account Operators group does not have access to make any changes to the users in the OU Problem: Even with the Account Operators removed…
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