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Use ADSI to Search Computers in Active Directory

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

February 27, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to Search Users in Active Directory

This post provides a simple example of how we can use ADSI to search users in Active Directory. You may wish to further optimise this by using LDAP filters. $searcher=[adsisearcher]'(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user))' $searcher.PageSize = 200 $colProplist = "samaccountname" foreach ($i in $colPropList)...

February 27, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use PowerShell and ADSI to Add, Update, Clear and Append Active Directory Attributes

This post provides an example of how we can use PowerShell and ADSI to add, update, clear and append Active Directory attributes. Use Put() to Set an Active Directory Attribute using PowerShell In its simplest form, we can use the...

February 27, 2021

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List AD Sites and Subnets using PowerShell

This is a simple script to list AD sites and subnets using PowerShell. $sites = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Forest]::GetCurrentForest().Sites foreach ($site in $sites) { write-host "(site) $site" foreach ($subnet in $site.Subnets) { write-host "....(subnet) $subnet" foreach ($server in $site.Servers) { write-host "........(server) $server"...

February 26, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI and FromFileTime to Convert Datetime Attributes in Active Directory

This post explains how we can use ADSI and FromFileTime to convert datetime attributes in Active Directory to a human-readable date and time. You’ll notice when you return attributes such as lastlogon, lastlogontimestamp and lastpwdset that the format of the...

February 26, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to List Nested Members of an AD Group (Updated)

This post includes an example of how we can use ADSI to list nested members of an AD group. In other words, if the group contains nested groups, it will iteratively search all the members of those nested groups too....

February 26, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to Modify an AD Group

This post provides a simple example of how we can use ADSI to modify an AD group. In this example, we modify the description attribute of an AD group. You can also use ADSI to clear the attributes for an...

February 26, 2021

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to Create an AD Group

This post provides a simple example of how we can use ADSI to create an AD group. $adGroupType = @{ Global = 0x00000002 DomainLocal = 0x00000004 Universal = 0x00000008 Security = 0x80000000 } #OU containing the AD group $adGroupOU="OU=Application,OU=Groups,DC=alkanesolutions,DC=co,DC=uk" #AD...

February 26, 2021

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