MY Boss was asked to get these reports ASAP, Please help me

vbr.mohan — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:00:00 GMT

1. A list of all GPOs that run a script, what the scripts name is, and what it’s function is, if you can figure it out. If the script is mapping drives, printers, or pulling files from a location we need to verify that those devices/locations/files still exist.

2. A list of all GPOs that are not linked to anything, and if possible what their function is.

How can i get the Reports of GPO's which are running Scripts ?

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pat wrigley — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

does anyone know of a powershell script to do a Read-Host to get user input for an AD account name. and then set the account to force the user to change their password at the next login?

Thanks in advance for any help.

How do I query oab in powershell?

jwhite — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

There is an AD Exchange attribute "MsExchUseOAB" to show what oab users are pointing to. How could I view this in powershell for a user? I tried get-aduser, get-user, and get-mailbox but no luck. Any ideas?? Thanks!

powershell script to change ip to dns in profilepath and homedirectory path in AD

thwer — Sun, 01 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Hi there !

i just wanted to post a script i just made.

At work, the path to profile and homefolders have been, in the past years, put through the unc with ip instead of dns names.

So, i was asked to make a script to make massively the change for a certain IP address to a certain dns name.

I thus thought that it could be great to have it done automatically for all the paths using IP and yesterday, during my free time at home, i went to my lab and done this script to change it massively.

i wanted as well do it through a function more than a simple script, in order to be able, through the parameters, to choose on what we want to make the action : profilepath or homedirectory.

I wanted to have your opinions (and if i could make it better, that's great) and maybe it will be useful for some people having the same environment.

Thanks for your comments !

here's the script with explaination

# As we will be working with some AD cmdlet, we need to have installed on the workstation the RSAT from MS.

# We will then use the activedirectory module

Import-Module activedirectory

# first i setup a function to test if the ip is valid.

# I found it on the net somewhere but can't remember where.

# Surely you'll be able to find some with your preferred search engine.

function isip {

param([string]$ip=$(throw "Il manque l'argument de l'adresse ip"))

trap{"$ip Is not a valid IP address"; continue;}

[bool][system.net.ipaddress]::Parse($ip);

}

function iptodns {

# There's only one parameter to enter along the function call : 0 or 1

# so, when calling the function, you enter, for example, "iptodns 1" (deleting the double quotes...)

param($choix=$(throw "Choice Argument is missing"))

#I've Setup a trap in case of error just in order to know when the error occured...

trap { add-content $file "an error occured treating ($entry.samaccountname)"; continue;}

#The script will switch in order to choose the item on which it's going to act

#I've used the switch call because it's really going faster than calling multiple conditions with if...else..if...else..

# french flavour on the name of the var i've used : choix means choice

# so if you choose profilepath, the argument for the function's call is 0 and if you choose to make massive changes on the homedirectory

# path, you'll choose 1.

# depending on the choice made above will happend some actions.

switch ($choix) {

0 {

# the use var will contain profilepath or homedirectory. I made this because, in this case i wanted to have only one function

# to call in order to do every changes i had in mind...

# we then create the name of the log file through a concatenation of words and var.

# After that, the actions are straight forward till the next comment.

$use = "profilepath"

$file = "c:\logsAD" + $use + "change.txt"

new-item $file -type file -erroraction "silentlycontinue"

add-content $file "We are going to modify the $use of the Active Directory users"

}

1 {

$use = "homedirectory"

$file = "c:\logsAD" + $use + "change.txt"

new-item $file -type file -erroraction "silentlycontinue"

add-content $file "We are going to modify the $use of the Active Directory users"

}

# Here we go for the main body of this function.

# first, i used the famouse aduser commandlet in order to retrieve the AD items i want to work with.

# Instead of placing the content in a variable and then making an output of my var and calling the foreach loop, i optimized a

# bit the way it works especially in tipping text time... :)

foreach ($entry in $(get-aduser -filter * -properties * -searchbase "ou=usersZ15,dc=Z51,dc=T") ) {

# In order to output the $entry.$use with will be the profilepath or homefolder of the entry (the entry being the item of the user)

# i put the result in the actionon var. In fact, this is simply to workaround my way because if you'd put $entry.$use between the double quotes

# the result wouldn't have been to enter in the log file the server name.

$actionon = ($entry.$use)

if ($actionon -ne $null) {

add-content $file "we are going to change the $use of the user $entry"

# when you make a split on the unc, you have a few empty drops in your array.

# to work that arround, i used the removeemptyentries which makes that the first element of the array in the $split var will be

# the ip address i'll be changing...

[array]$split = ($entry.$use).split("\",[stringsplitoptions]::removeemptyentries)

add-content $file "here is the spliting of the $use :"

$split | foreach { add-content $file $_ }

# once again, as the $split[0] will return the elements of the array on the same line and string in my log file, i created the ip

# var in order to work this arround.

$ip = $split[0]

if ((isip $ip) -eq $true) {

add-content $file "($ip) is a valid IP address"

# here i used a switch op on the ip because, in the environment this script will be working on, i can't use a call to the reverse

# lookup zone in the dns, as some of the servers don't have any PTR record in there...

# this works if you're table isn't long that much but, in a relatively well maintained environment, you would just call on the

# DNS with a function to obtain the inverse resolution and have the server's name worked out.

switch ($ip) {

"172.16.1.10" { $split[0] = "prf01.Z51.T" }

"172.16.1.11" { $split[0] = "prf02.Z51.T" }

"172.16.1.12" { $split[0] = "prf03.Z51.T" }

"172.16.1.13" { $split[0] = "prf04.Z51.T" }

"172.16.1.14" { $split[0] = "prf05.Z51.T" }

"172.16.1.15" { $split[0] = "prf06.Z51.T" }

}

# i wanted to add in the log file, alongside the ip address we're living, the new name which will be replacing the ip.

# thus, i created another var which will be receiving the new name after we changed the split[0] var

$dnsname = $split[0]

add-content $file "($ip) has been changed in $dnsname"

# i modify directly in the user item which is in RAM the path to the homefolder or the profile.

($entry.$use) = ("\\" + $($split[0..$split.count])).replace(" ","\")

$actionon = ($entry.$use)

add-content $file "the $use has been changed in memory in $actionon"

# and i finally set the modified path in the AD item, depending on the type of element we change : profilepath or homedir...

switch ($choix) {

0 {

set-aduser $entry.samaccountname -profilepath $entry.$use

add-content $file "the $use has been changed in Active Directory in $actionon"

}

1 {

set-aduser $entry.samaccountname -homedirectory $entry.$use

add-content $file "the $use has been changed in Active Directory in $actionon"

}

} else {

add-content $file "$dnsname is not a valid IP address"

}

} else {

add-content $file "The $use of the user $entry is empty"

}

it is indeed possible to replace the switch between the ip addresses and dns names in order to have it done automatically through a dns interrogation

to do this, we can replace the switch part in the function iptodns with this :

$split[0] = ([system.net.dns]::gethostbyaddress($split[0])).hostname

here are the logs i've made through this :

we are going to change the profilepath of the user CN=Thomas Werters,OU=usersZ51,DC=Z51,DC=T

here is the spliting of the profilepath :

172.16.1.10

prf

thwer

(172.16.1.10) is a valid IP address

(172.16.1.10) has been changed in prf01.Z51.T

the profilepath has been changed in memory in \\prf01.Z51.T\prf\thwer

the profilepath has been changed in Active Directory in \\prf01.Z51.T\prf\thwer

so, to call the function and change massively the homedirectory for example, i would call iptodns 1

to change the profilepath massively, would go for iptodns 0 and so far so good, it's working well!

thanks a lot for your comments

Thomas

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