AD PowerShell Basics 3: Set-ADUser
Use the PowerShell Cmdlet Set-ADUser to change user attributes in Active Directory. With Set-ADUser you can: – Change attributes of a single user – Change attributes of several prefiltered users...
Articles related to Active Directory administration. (user, computer and group management)
Kerberos: Problems after Schema Update to Server 2012 R2
After a Schema Update for Windows 2008 R2 on Windows 2012 R2 we had a problem with an older application on Windows 7. But the domain functioning level was unchanged....
Read Kerberos Token with PowerShell
Active Directory offers you many different ways of authentification. Most common are NTLM and Kerberos. This article is about how to read the Kerberos Token with .Net classes in PowerShell....
NTFS: Users can see folders without “Read” permissions
Sometimes Read and Write permissions that users get through authorization groups do not work properly on the file servers: – Users without “Read” permissions can see folders – Users without...
PowerShell: Finding the Next Closest Domain Controller
I am currently supporting a bigger enterprise with their Active Directory Migration. A colleague asked me “Could you write a Powershell script to comb the whole AD Forest?” “Of course”,...
AD PowerShell Basics 1: New-ADUser
In this small series, I want to introduce the most common Active Directory PowerShell cmdlets to you like New-ADUser. With the cmdlet New-ADUser you can: – Create new users, –...
DCPROMO: Domain Controller promotion fails
Lately, I wanted to add a new domain controller to a domain. At first, the Configuration Wizard ran as expected. But just as the process was about to come to...
AdminSDHolder – Delegate administration of admin accounts?
Every now and then, the user administration staff (UA) has to administer groups for which domain admin rights are required. However, “admin accounts” of the UA usually don’t have these...
Active Directory FAQ – Relaunch 2016
We have updated and relaunched our tech blog activedirectoryfaq.com for you. Like our software, we wanted to make it more user friendly for our readers. From April 7, 2016 –...
Microsoft Azure: Change Static IP Address of a Virtual Machine
Sometimes it can be necessary to change the network structure of the virtual machines in Azure, e.g. to move VMs into a virtual network for the setting up of VPNs....
Dynamic AD Groups
Dynamic Entra ID Groups
