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Avoid PowerShell timeout – free up RAM

Avoid PowerShell timeout – free up RAM

Jul 8, 2024

Are your Powershell scripts taking too long to run and always timeout? PowerShell is often used to automate tasks or to configure systems such as...

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,...

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...

LastLogon vs. LastLogonTimestamp

LastLogon vs. LastLogonTimestamp

Jan 20, 2021

If you want to retrieve the last logon time of an Active Directory user, the question arises: which attribute should be used—LastLogon or LastLogonTimestamp? (more…)

Change primary email address with Powershell

Change primary email address with Powershell

Nov 3, 2020

A user can have multiple email addresses in Exchange. However, only one of them is his primary e-mail address. So what happens if you want...

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...

Schedule PowerShell scripts with Task Scheduler

Schedule PowerShell scripts with Task Scheduler

Oct 16, 2019

Do you lose too much time to manually run your PowerShell Scripts every week? There is a wealth of frameworks, tools and products that offer...

Simple data mapping with Calculated Properties (PS)

Simple data mapping with Calculated Properties (PS)

Jul 18, 2019

In the IT world it is very often the case that we receive data in a specific format that has to be converted into another...

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. Index Recursive list of...

Import PowerShell sessions from computers in another domain

Import PowerShell sessions from computers in another domain

Sep 27, 2018

Importing PowerShell sessions from computers has been a common practice for a while now. By avoiding to login to the exchange server, sessions can be...

Active Directory: Temporary Permissions

Active Directory: Temporary Permissions

May 18, 2018

The installation of an application requires elevated rights. At first, the administrator might try to decline the request. But quite often colleagues return with an...

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...

PowerShell: Find active computer objects

PowerShell: Find active computer objects

Nov 27, 2017

After a successful Active Directory migration, the old domain will eventually need to be shut down.  Before you can go ahead you need to find...

Create home directory and grant permissions with PowerShell

Create home directory and grant permissions with PowerShell

Sep 18, 2017

Creating a new user in Active Directory is a routine task for IT-administrators. However, often it is not the only requirement as the new user...

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