Convert Active Directory AccountExpires attribute
I wrote a quick function to convert the AccountExpires attribute from the Long Integer value to a DateTime object or a string object of “!! Never !!”...
Tag: ActiveDirectory
Listing parent of AD object in PowerShell
Recently, I wanted to provide a client with a list of groups that related to some work he was doing. I wanted the group names as well as their location with AD....
Event data mining with PowerShell
On Server 2008 and 2008 R2, if your Domain Controllers aren’t configured to require LDAP signing and disallow simple LDAP binds in plaintext, Active Directory...
Network Policy Service error – eventid 4402
I’ve been working on deploying a load-balanced Remote Desktop Gateway service. I deployed the first farm member, then cloned it to create a second member. The...
2008 R2 DCDIAG errors with NIC teaming
I’m in the process of deploying a couple new Server 2008 R2 domain controllers. I’m using two IBM blades, each having a pair of Broadcom NICs that I configu...
Domain Controller Blue Screen
During an upgrade of our VMware ESX infrastructure, I ran into an issue with our domain controllers. As part of the process we needed to upgrade the virtual har...
Range Retrieval
Working on the Server 2008 hard limit of 5000 attribute values max per query, which breaks our Identity Management process. I’m looking at having to write a c...
Monday – June 1
It’s June! Cold and rainy?! Gah!! On the list for today: AD Domain Services on Server 2008 and Operations Manager 2007 Operations Manager – verifying curren...
Opsmgr Friday
Having successfully deployed some agents to some recalcitrant hosts, I’m now trying to address a false positive issue on a DC. I’m getting an error regardin...
Viewing Deleted objects in Active Directory
Working through the AD preparation for an application install, and I’m logged into the emtpy root domain as a schema admin. Running the setup application,...