Imagine that you work in a large organization, for instance, a large school system with hundreds of branches, or a multinational firm where new employees are hired every day. You get a list of new users to create in Active Directory every day; sometimes less than 10 and sometimes more than 100. Typically, like most…
Groups are an important part of an organization’s Active Directory. For sharing information, distribution lists are quite handy. For assigning permissions and granting access to resources based on their roles and designations, security groups are indispensable. When it comes to managing Active Directory groups, small organizations may need to create groups occasionally, but in larger…
We are all familiar with the scenario: where a user calls the helpdesk to request a password reset after complaining that the computer won’t accept their current one or HR sends you an email with a list of recent hires who require new passwords to be created. Both situations can be handled utilizing the following…
Get-ADGroup Cmdlet – Definition Get-ADGroup primarily enables IT admins to retrieve information pertaining to Active Directory groups as follows: You can identify a group in many ways like its Distinguished Name, GUID, SID or SAM Account Name. You can use Filter and LDAP Filter to fetch information about multiple groups from Active Directory. Use PowerShell…
The Get-ADComputer cmdlet retrieves a single computer or several computers using a search. The Identity parameter is used to specify the Active Directory computers to retrieve. A computer’s distinguished name, GUID, security identifier (SID), or Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name can all be used as value for the Identity parameter to locate the computer…
Almost all Active Directory actions that you typically carry out using tools like Active Directory Users and Computers and Active Directory Sites and Services can be carried out utilizing PowerShell. For example, you can use Active Directory PowerShell cmdlets that support specified parameters to query Active Directory data. In order to retrieve user information from…
Managing any Active Directory (AD) component using Windows PowerShell is simple. In addition to managing AD objects like users, computers, and groups, we can handle any AD functionality via PowerShell. This blog will concentrate on users and groups while explaining how you can use Windows PowerShell and the Active Directory module to obtain a user’s…
Get-ChildItem Powershell Cmdlet Get-ChildItem obtains objects from one or more locations specified. If the item is a container, it receives the child items contained within the container. The Recurse parameter can be used to get items from all child containers, while the Depth parameter can be used to limit how many levels to recurse to.…
The Set-Mailbox Cmdlet in PowerShell The Set-Mailbox command-let enables IT administrators to modify the settings of a mailbox. It enables them to change the common attributes of a mailbox, such as: User’s name Display name Alias User logon name Title Department Company Moreover, it also allows you to change uncommon attributes, such as: Arbitration ArbitrationMailbox…
Using Groups in Active Directory, you may quickly assign permissions and applications to your users in Active Directory. But how can you get all members of a group? Group members within AD can be obtained by using the Get-ADGroup command-let with the “member” property, as shown below: Get-ADGroup -Identity VPN -Properties member | select-object -property…