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An Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) for the domain xxxx.xxx could not be contacted.

by Jacki Moody | Dec 17, 2014 | Active Directory, Windows

I decided to recycle a Hyper-V server that I already had genned up and running. I disjoined it from the domain, renamed the server, renamed the Hyper-V storage file to match, and renamed the Hyper-V itself to all match the new name. So far so good. Next step, rejoin...

PowerShell: Get Account Enabled and Password Status

by Jacki Moody | Jul 14, 2014 | Active Directory, PowerShell

Recently I needed to retrieve the account enabled status and password information from Active Directory for a small number of users. I created this script to quickly retrieve their password and enabled data. $usernames =...

Determine Active Directory Logon Server

by Jacki Moody | Jul 11, 2014 | Active Directory, Windows

When you log on to Active Directory, it determines the “best” DC to respond to you using an algorithm. If your AD Sites and Services are not configured correctly, you could be logging into random DCs on your AD network. They could be local, or they could...

Enable and Disable Active Directory Account with PowerShell

by Jacki Moody | Jul 3, 2014 | Active Directory, PowerShell

Recently I had to create a generic active directory account for testing software. I want the account disabled when I am not using it, so I created this PowerShell script to enable and disable the account. Param( # Account...

Powershell Copy Active Directory Group Membership

by Jacki Moody | May 2, 2014 | Active Directory, PowerShell

Recently I had a request to copy group membership from multiple groups into one single group. This was because the application they were using did not support group nesting, it would only support granting permissions to a single Active Directory group. I came up with...

LDAP Query to Find an OU by Contains

by Jacki Moody | Oct 15, 2013 | Active Directory

Active Directory does not provide “contains” as an option for searching. If you want to find an OU by its partial name, you can do an advanced search. For example, if you want to find every OU that contains the letters “grp,” you and find it...