Active Directory

Get-MailAddress

Axel Kara — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:59:59 GMT

Just a simple function to get an users mail address.

AD Tools with GUI

Felipe — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:40:21 GMT

.SYNOPSIS

Some really nice tools to manage your AD environment.

.DESCRIPTION

Add Objects to Groups, Remove Objects from Groups, Create Objects, Delete Objects, Count Members in an OU/Container, Unlock accounts, Move Objects from one OU to another and Get and Edit AD Objects properties.

.PARAMETER

Just select the option you want and specify the required field.

.EXAMPLE

.\ADTools.ps1

Display the number of members of each OU in your AD with GUI

Felipe — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:08:19 GMT

This is the same as the other one but with a Graphic User Interface.

Display the number of members of each OU in your AD, recursivelly from the one you specify as parameter.

Just type the OU name and click GET.

Display the number of members of each OU in your AD

Felipe — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:39:13 GMT

Display the number of members of each OU in your AD, recursivelly from the one you specify as parameter.

Remember to specify an OU.

Example: .\CountOUMembers.ps1("Computers") or .\CountOUMembers.ps1 "Computers"

Generate a report of all members of a specified AD group

Felipe — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:15:07 GMT

Just change the -SearchRoot location for your own.

Also change where you want the report to be saved.

Cheers

Copy Group Membership from one computer to another

Felipe — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:25:28 GMT

This is a more complex script and harder to explain, but let's try..

First the script creates a new object to hold a Task Sequence variable.

Then it checks if it really got the name and if it did not, it trys to look in the D:\XPcomputername.txt

You can make this file, creating a run command in your TS. The command is cmd /c %_SMSTSMachineName% > D:\XPcomputername (you can put here whatever and wherever you want)

Cool. Then if it still doesn't have the name, then it quits.

Otherwise it gets the new computer name. Copy all the groups from the old computer to the new computer.

Then it checks if both computers have the same groups before deleting the old computer from AD.

Oh yes and this

{

$_.DN -notmatch "CN=Domain"}

means that it should not copy this group. The reason is that it's the primary gorup for all the computers here and it can't be overwriten. So to avoid problems it is excluded.

You can adapt this script to satisfy your needs. And you don't need to run it from the TS. You will have to make some changes though.

Move computer to required OU based on computer type

Felipe — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:06:40 GMT

A new version of the script.

In this version it is not necessary to have the Quest Active Roles installed.

It moves the computer based on its type.

So if the computer's type equals to 2, it moves to some OU otherwise to another OU.

You can adapt it to your needs.

And of course do not forget to change the LDAP OU and DC details with your own.

Move computer to required OU based on computer model

Felipe — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:26:44 GMT

Requires the Quest ActiveRoles ADManagement

Write computer model to AD object description

Felipe — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:11:53 GMT

Get the computer model through a WMI query (you can get something else) and write it to the computer description in AD.

Do not forget to change the path to your required OU.

Powershell to check and Ad Domain and Forest Mode

Krishna — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:48:38 GMT

Powershell to Add new MX record into DNS

Krishna — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:48:42 GMT

Regards,
Krishna
http://smtpport25.wordpress.com

Powershell to Add New A Record into DNS

Krishna — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:47:27 GMT

This powershell helps to add new A Record into DNS

Regards,
Krishna
http://smtpport25.wordpress.com

Protect an Organizational Unit from Accidental Deletion

Alexey — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:21:42 GMT

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Protect Ou's from mass deletion.

Powershell to Pull Home directory details

Krishna — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:08:40 GMT

Get-IADExchangeAdmin

ps1 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:15:07 GMT

Retrieve all Exchange 2003 administrators.