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Articles related to Active Directory administration. (user, computer and group management)

Install Azure AD Connect

Install Azure AD Connect

Jul 5, 2021

There are many scenarios where credentials from on-premises Active Directory environments are synchronized with Azure Active Directory. Besides single sign-on, for the use of cloud...

Avoid password generator adjustments after policy change

Avoid password generator adjustments after policy change

Jun 8, 2021

Do you need (again) to adjust your password generator after a policy change? The best way to avoid password generator adjustments after a policy change,...

Avoid strings in passwords with Azure AD

Avoid strings in passwords with Azure AD

May 10, 2021

In this article you will learn how to avoid strings in passwords with Azure AD password protection. By default, the Windows operating system, via the...

Manager can update membership list with PowerShell

Manager can update membership list with PowerShell

Mar 1, 2021

The management of AD groups does not have to be in IT hands. The ‘Group-Manager’ function is often used when a non-IT employee in the...

Sending an E-mail to Members of an AD Group

Sending an E-mail to Members of an AD Group

Feb 4, 2021

Sometimes you have to send  an e-mail to members of an AD Group. This may be the case if you find it necessary to inform...

Create Multiple Scheduled Tasks with PowerShell

Create Multiple Scheduled Tasks with PowerShell

May 5, 2020

The more parameters are added, the more complex the manual creation of automatic timed-controlled tasks in Windows are. In the first part of my blog...

Delegate AD group management

Delegate AD group management

Mar 2, 2020

Managing authorizations in AD is often exhausting. It is not a complicated task, but it occurs frequently and one or the other would like to...

Windows Server 2019 Improvements overview

Windows Server 2019 Improvements overview

Sep 10, 2019

With Windows Server 2012 and 2016, Microsoft integrated a wide range of innovations in its server operating system. In comparison with Windows Server 2019, the...

Recursive list of group members in AD

Recursive list of group members in AD

Apr 15, 2019

Quite often, projects come to a point when all members of a certain AD group have to be read out recursively. Recursive list of groups...

AD Migration: Maximum number of group memberships

AD Migration: Maximum number of group memberships

Oct 16, 2018

After an Active Directory migration project, users might not be able to logon anymore. This article shows solutions how to prevent this problem ahead of...

Azure Basics: Azure AD User Pricipal Name – UPN

Azure Basics: Azure AD User Pricipal Name – UPN

Apr 16, 2018

Looking at Azure AD User Principal Name it is the same as almost always in IT: For a successful implementation it is recommendable to have...

AD LDS Proxy Authentication

AD LDS Proxy Authentication

Jan 31, 2018

AD LDS – Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services LDAP Directory offers different authentication methods, i.e.: simple LDAP bind anonymous bind or bind redirection  – also...

Nesting groups in Active Directory

Nesting groups in Active Directory

Oct 3, 2017

I frequently get asked which group type can be member of which group. For this reason I decided to explain the nesting of AD groups...

Retrieve Active Directory subnets with PowerShell

Retrieve Active Directory subnets with PowerShell

Jun 22, 2017

To create a list of all subnets belonging to an AD site requires a lot of manual work, especially as the environment gets larger. However, there is of...

Editing users of other domains  – with PowerShell

Editing users of other domains – with PowerShell

May 31, 2017

An experienced AD administrator uses the PowerShell cmdLets „Get-ADUser“ and „Set-ADUser“ for many automated processes in the domain. (more…)

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