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129 Active Directory results in Windows 8 > Community [Clear]
Rich Prescott
One task that every systems administrator has to go through at some point is the creation of new user accounts. Powershell makes this process simple and adds additional functionality, such as the ability to set defaults and import users from CSV.
(101)
Updated 12/4/2012
Released 10/1/2011
48,670 Downloads
Jason W


  This function will locate the computer that processed a failed user logon attempt which caused the user account to become locked out.

 The locked out location is found by querying the PDC Emulator for locked out events (4740). 

 
(8)
Updated 3/20/2013
Released 12/7/2012
3,292 Downloads
TSO
Get inactive / old computer in your domain as a simple CSV output. Credits tohttp://blog.mattvogt.net/2011/10/06/powershell-last-logon-timestamp-for-single-ho
Run on AD server (2008 or newer)Update the domain and if required the DaysInactiveThis is a simple example and the Filte
(1)
Updated 8/27/2013
Released 8/27/2013
946 Downloads
Alexandre Augagneur
Generating an Excel report that shows information about user objects in a domain or forest. For example, the Excel workbook output from the script can show whether accounts are inactive or active, expired passwords, which accounts are locked out, and more.
(5)
Updated 10/20/2013
Released 10/14/2013
723 Downloads
Ashley McGlone
This script generates a report of all Active Directory OU permissions in the domain. I would advise all Active Directory shops to review this report on a quarterly basis to make sure there are no surprise administrators lurking in your domain.
(6)
Updated 3/23/2013
Released 3/23/2013
1,782 Downloads
Atul Mishra
This script is created with the purpose of exporting users from specified Active Directory group. sometimes, we need to know that how many users/machines are added in AD groups. I used it to compare the SCCM collections machines and it helped me a lot.I am contributing it to my f
(0)
Updated 6/5/2012
Released 6/5/2012
1,225 Downloads
Doug Symalla
This script will dump the membership of privileged groups in the domain (including recursing through nested groups). Also, it will report password ages of these privileged users. Some output is reported to the screen, and all output is dumped to a CSV file.
(12)
Updated 4/25/2013
Released 4/8/2013
1,265 Downloads
Rich Prescott
This script mimics the basic functionality of the Add-Computer cmdlet (with reduced functionality).  It prompts the administrator for credentials to add a computer to the domain.  It then retrieves the WMI ComputerSystem object and uses the JoinDomainOrWorkgroup
method to join
(26)
Updated 6/17/2012
Released 9/13/2011
4,302 Downloads
Ashley McGlone
The functions provided in this module will give you visibility into the status of your SID history throughout the Active Directory Forest, help you translate SID history in NTFS ACLs, and easily target SID history removal.
(11)
Updated 7/9/2013
Released 12/23/2011
1,659 Downloads
François-Xavier Cat
Blog Articles: [2013/11 - Version 1.6] http://www.lazywinadmin.com/2013/11/update-powershell-monitor-and-report.html[2013/10 - Version 1.5] http://www.lazywinadmin.com/2013/10/powershell-monitor-and-report-active.html[2012/03 - Version 1.0] http://www.lazywinadmin.com/2012/03/pow
(5)
Updated 11/28/2013
Released 5/31/2012
302 Downloads
Tim Springston [MS]
In some enterprise environments the sheer volume of NTLM authentication can produce performance bottlenecks on servers. To help make the problem easier to detect I wrote this PowerShell script.
(4)
Updated 3/28/2013
Released 3/26/2013
1,026 Downloads
Ashley McGlone
This script is for all of the IT Pros who have inherited an Active Directory environment which they did not build. This script documents the history of schema updates. Now you can finally get some insight on the origins of your directory.
(15)
Updated 9/19/2013
Released 12/19/2011
1,806 Downloads
TSO
Get inactive / old User (which are still enabled) in your domain as a simple CSV output. Credits tohttp://blog.mattvogt.net/2011/10/06/powershell-last-logon-timestamp-for-single-ho
Run on AD server (2008 or newer)Update the domain and if required the DaysInactiveThis is a simple
(1)
Updated 8/27/2013
Released 8/27/2013
153 Downloads
mazakane
This script basically gets all members of a group from the input list called "grps.csv" and exports all memberships into CSV.
(5)
Updated 8/4/2012
Released 8/4/2012
1,432 Downloads
Jaap Brasser
This script queries AD with the name of the home folder. If this query does not result in an account or a disabled account the script will list the folder size with the folder path and error message.
(3)
Updated 5/24/2013
Released 10/19/2012
754 Downloads
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