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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...

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...

IsMember – Check group membership in Active Directory

IsMember – Check group membership in Active Directory

Feb 28, 2017

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...

AD PowerShell Basics 4: ADGroup cmdlets

AD PowerShell Basics 4: ADGroup cmdlets

Sep 15, 2016

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...

Inconsistent permissions in Global Catalogue

Inconsistent permissions in Global Catalogue

Nov 19, 2015

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...

Automated Group Memberships in Active Directory

Automated Group Memberships in Active Directory

Sep 28, 2015

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 membership not working and GPO does not apply

Group membership not working and GPO does not apply

May 22, 2014

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...

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