AD Migration: Maximum number of group memberships
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 time with the use of...
Nesting groups in Active Directory
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 in this article with the...
IsMember – Check group membership in Active Directory
The PowerShell function “IsMember” checks if the user who runs the PowerShell script is a member of a certain group. This has advantages compared to using Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI)....
AD PowerShell Basics 4: ADGroup cmdlets
Group Management in Active Directory can be improved by using PowerShell. This time I want to explain the basic ADGroup cmdlets. ADGroup Cmdlets are used for: – creating new groups...
Inconsistent permissions in Global Catalogue
If you want to use AD groups to assign permissions for ressources, you usually do it this way: Bind permissions to local groups Nest global or universal groups into the...
Automated Group Memberships in Active Directory
In Microsoft’s Active Directory groups are used to manage permissions and access to shares and apps. But with a big number of users accounts the group management becomes time-consuming for...
Group membership not working and GPO does not apply
Log-ons do not work, permissions do not take effect and group policies can not be applied. The reason could be that the user has memberships in too many Active Directory...
Dynamic AD Groups
Dynamic Entra ID Groups
