Export, Compare, and Synchronize Active Directory Schemas

by Lautza on Mon 21 Dec 2009 · Liked by 3 people

If your organization has multiple Active Directory forests, you need to manage multiple Active Directory schemas and ens... continue reading "Export, Compare, and Synchronize Active Directory Schemas "

Active Directory Backup and Restore in Windows Server 2008

by Lautza on Mon 21 Dec 2009

Windows Server 2008 and the new Windows Server Backup utility bring many changes and welcome enhancements to backing up.... continue reading "Active Directory Backup and Restore in Windows Server 2008 "

Top Ten Troublesome Tweets about Active Directory

by Lautza on Mon 21 Dec 2009 · Liked by 1 person

Top Ten Troublesome Tweets about Active Directory On any given day, you'll find Twitter.com awash with "tweets" from peo... continue reading "Top Ten Troublesome Tweets about Active Directory"

Design Schema & Queries for Active Directory Applications - full session from TEC 2009

by Lautza on Mon 21 Dec 2009

Design Schema & Queries for Active Directory Applications - Examine various approaches to modeling data in AD and consid... continue reading "Design Schema & Queries for Active Directory Applications - full session from TEC 2009"

One Decade Later: A Look Back at Microsofts Internal Launch - this is cool!

by Lautza on Mon 21 Dec 2009

Believe it or not its the 10th Anniversary of Active Directory! What better way to celebrate it than with a look back at... continue reading "One Decade Later: A Look Back at Microsofts Internal Launch - this is cool!"

Pipelining AD - one object at a time

by tshell on Mon 21 Dec 2009

Pipelining AD - one object at a time A blog dedicated to the Powershell cmdlets provided with Win7 and 2008 R2... continue reading "Pipelining AD - one object at a time"

Active Directory PowerShell Team

by JeffHicks on Mon 21 Dec 2009

If you are at all interested in managing Active Directory with the PowerShell module that ships with Windows Server 2008 R2... continue reading "Active Directory PowerShell Team"

Populated AD Attributes are not visible in LDAP browser...please help.

by Gena on Wed 25 Nov 2009 · Liked by 1 person · 1 reply

I am using a script to pull data from and oracle table and push it into active directory attribute fields. I have done... continue reading "Populated AD Attributes are not visible in LDAP browser...please help."

Is there can be a case that AD account is disabled but Exchange is still active in other words is there is different status field for Exchange?

by Anonymous on Mon 02 Nov 2009 · 1 reply

Is there can be a case that AD account is disabled but Exchange is still active in other words is there is different st... continue reading "Is there can be a case that AD account is disabled but Exchange is still active in other words is there is different status field for Exchange?"

Most important features for Microsoft to work on for the next generation of Active Directory

by Lautza on Mon 21 Sep 2009 · Liked by 2 people · 5 replies

Check this out - these are the most important features for Microsoft to work on for the next generation of Active Direct... continue reading "Most important features for Microsoft to work on for the next generation of Active Directory"

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by Rick on Thu 17 Sep 2009

You are absolutely right about the need of learning new parameters for those who are hooked to QAD cmdlets. For instanc... continue reading "item"

Active Directory Management Gateway Service is RTW

by Rick on Wed 16 Sep 2009

ADMGS aka AD Web Services aka Powershell Native AD cmdlets for downlevel OSs (Windows Server 2003 DCs) is out of beta a... continue reading "Active Directory Management Gateway Service is RTW"

Fine Tuning the Directory Searcher

by JeffHicks on Thu 20 Aug 2009

Last week I wrote about using the AD Searcher object in PowerShell. We left off with a discussion of searchscope.  ... continue reading "Fine Tuning the Directory Searcher"

Could you recommend the best AD tool(s)?

by Anonymous on Thu 06 Aug 2009 · 6 replies

Could you recommend the best AD tool(s)?... continue reading "Could you recommend the best AD tool(s)?"

AD Bridging gets respect at Burton's Catalyst09

by sander on Sat 01 Aug 2009

day two at catalyst09 was very on target for me. the identity track was all about leveraging existing resources for bi... continue reading "AD Bridging gets respect at Burton's Catalyst09"

Export all Security groups and their members to XLS using Qwest's software

by Anonymous on Fri 17 Jul 2009 · 1 reply

I want to run a powershell command that exports groups and member fo that group to a xls file. I understand get-QADGrou... continue reading "Export all Security groups and their members to XLS using Qwest's software"

Discovery options with R2 AD Cmdlets

by tshell on Mon 22 Jun 2009

Last week I talked about how to "discover" information using the built in .NET classes for ActiveDirectory. This week I ... continue reading "Discovery options with R2 AD Cmdlets"

how to set network printer permissions through Active Directory?

by realchecha on Fri 19 Jun 2009 · 1 reply

1 domain controller with windows server 2003 1 application server with windows server 2003 1 client with windows xp t... continue reading "how to set network printer permissions through Active Directory?"

Are You "Missing It?" (Part 2) It's Insane to Not Use Server Core

by DonJones on Tue 02 Jun 2009 · Liked by 2 people

Continuing my look at awesome, but overlooked, features of Windows Server 2008 – especially those related to AD &... continue reading "Are You "Missing It?" (Part 2) It's Insane to Not Use Server Core"

Why use LDAP filters (Powershell)

by tshell on Fri 22 May 2009

A common problem when dealing with Active Directory is the end user trying to parse the results themselves. Let take th... continue reading "Why use LDAP filters (Powershell)"