Top Ten Tasks

by JeffHicks on Thu 01 Oct 2009 · Liked by 2 people

Given that its October, the 10th month of the year, I thought I'd put together a series of PowerShell one-liners... continue reading "Top Ten Tasks"

Managed Active Directory Objects

by JeffHicks on Thu 27 Aug 2009 · 1 reply

Several Active Directory objects support a property to hold management information. Objects such as organizational units... continue reading "Managed Active Directory Objects"

Count Off!

by JeffHicks on Thu 23 Jul 2009

Recently I was helping someone out in the PowerShell forum at ScriptingAnswers.com. He was working on a group audit task... continue reading "Count Off!"

Managing Disabled User Accounts

by JeffHicks on Thu 16 Jul 2009

More than likely you have a one or more disabled user accounts in your domain. Some of them like the krbtgt account are ... continue reading "Managing Disabled User Accounts"

You Don't Look a Minute Over 42 Days

by JeffHicks on Thu 09 Jul 2009 · Liked by 1 person · 1 reply

Last week I posted a PowerShell one-liner that uses the Quest Get-QADUser cmdlet to build a quick password age report.Â... continue reading "You Don't Look a Minute Over 42 Days"

Are you lonely? I'm here to help.

by JeffHicks on Thu 02 Jul 2009 · 2 replies

Welcome to my new blog series, The Lonely Active Directory Administrator. My aim is to share scripts, tips, tricks, tech... continue reading "Are you lonely? I'm here to help."

Quest Access Manager - Get-QIndexedTrustees Cmdlet

by AB on Fri 29 May 2009

To quickly get a list of users/groups who have been granted access to files, folders and shares in your network you can... continue reading "Quest Access Manager - Get-QIndexedTrustees Cmdlet"

Sick of WMI timeouts stopping your script? Try Test-Host!

by tshell on Wed 27 May 2009 · 1 reply

I manage a large number of servers and this management involves a ton of WMI queries. A long time back I got sick of wai... continue reading "Sick of WMI timeouts stopping your script? Try Test-Host!"

More thoughts on cmdlet design

by tshell on Wed 22 Apr 2009 · 4 replies

If you were told you needed to move your GUI based management application to Powershell what would you do? How would you... continue reading "More thoughts on cmdlet design"

Active Directory cmdlet of the week "Get-QAGroup"

by tshell on Fri 13 Mar 2009

This week we continue the *-QADGroup series with Get-QADObject. I find this cmdlet especially useful for finding groups ... continue reading "Active Directory cmdlet of the week "Get-QAGroup""

Active Directory cmdlet of the week

by tshell on Fri 13 Mar 2009

This week we finish the *-QADGroup series with Set-QADObject. This, as you can imagine, is used to modify AD groups. Thi... continue reading "Active Directory cmdlet of the week "