Blog | Alkane

How to use Test-Path for HKEY_USERS

When using Test-Path to query the HKEY_USERS (or HKU) hive, it kept returning false even if the hive existed. This post explains how to use Test-Path for HKEY_USERS, and the modifications that we need to make. How to use Test-Path for...

June 15, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

LDAP Does Not Return All Active Directory Group Members

LDAP does not return all Active Directory group members if there are more than 1500 members in the group. It will return the first 1500, but none thereafter. LDAP Does Not Return All Active Directory Group Members Luckily when a...

June 1, 2021

Case Studies

Microsoft Windows Migration Experts for an NHS Trust

About NHS (the “client”) are a publicly funded healthcare system in the United Kingdom, and required Windows 10 migration experts to migrate their estate from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The Project We were engaged to migrate circa 6,500 devices...

March 20, 2021

Case Studies

Microsoft Subject Matter Experts for a Bank

About A large banking client engaged Alkane Solutions as Microsoft Subject Matter Experts (SME) to resolve complex environmental issues. The Project Windows 10 debugging, audit and optimisations Complex application packaging Microsoft App-V performance improvements General service improvements Challenges The client...

March 19, 2021

Miscellaneous

IR35 and Off-payroll Working

IR35 is a set of tax laws in the UK designed to combat tax avoidance by hiring companies and the workers that they hire. Here we explain how Alkane Solutions can assist hiring companies with compliance issues related to IR35...

March 6, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Search Active Directory using ADSISearcher Filters

This post discusses how we can search Active Directory using ADSISearcher filters. Using search filters can improve search performance significantly. Consider the following where we create a default ADSISearcher to begin searching Active Directory (AD): $objSearcher=[adsisearcher]"" If we used this...

March 3, 2021

PowerShell

Export Data to a CSV and Maintain the Column Order

This post provides a simple example of how we can export data to a CSV and maintain the column order: $csvFile = "c:\temp\alkane.csv" $exampledata = @(@("John","37"),@("Peter","14"),@("Michelle","22"),@("Abdul","31"),@("Roger","22"),@("Rachel","50")) $csvwrapper = @() foreach($person in $exampledata) { $name = $person[0] $age = $person[1] #append...

March 3, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to Search Groups in Active Directory

This post provides a simple example of how we can use ADSI to search groups in Active Directory. You may wish to further optimise this by using LDAP filters. #only groups $objSearcher=[adsisearcher]'(&(objectCategory=group))' $objSearcher.PageSize = 200 #specify properties to include $colProplist...

March 2, 2021

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