Like a lot of smartphone users, I like to take pictures. These pictures get automatically synced to my cloud storage, dumping them in a single folder called “Camera Roll”. I came up with a quick Powershell script to organize these photos by year and month.
When you manage an Active Directory infrastructure that spans multiple sites, it is a good idea to test the ability of clients to successfully authenticate against domain controllers in other sites.
Need to find every workstation that a user has logged on to? Security event logs rolled over or you can’t otherwise get that info from the domain controllers? Here is a way to get it.
You can use this handy little script to find remote desktop sessions on all servers running in your Active Directory domain.
Getting the hostname from an IP address (or vice versa) is no great magic, and can be done easily with PowerShell, by simply leveraging .Net to do the work. We’ve all done something like this to get resolve an IP address: [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostEntry(“69.69.95.133”).HostName Or this to get an IP address from a hostname: [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses(“www.fortypoundhead.com”).IPAddressToString But did you ever notice… Read More »
Recently, I rebuilt my SCOM environment (don’t ask), re-attaching all the previously existing agents to the new installation. Lots of them came back as “Not Monitored”.
Computer not detecting external Hard Disk Drive? Probably you are looking for answers of that question and that’s why you are here. Extracting data form corrupt or inaccessible external hard drive isn’t an easy job and you might need to go through little advanced troubleshooting steps.
Z-Hire from Zohno helps you to reduce the time and steps needed during the onboarding of new employees by allowing you to set up templates for user accounts. These templates can then be used to create not just an Active Directory account, but also an Exchange mailbox, Lync account, and even a Salesforce account.
AdSysNet (ASN) has built a nice and comprehensive tool for bulk managing and reporting on AD objects, all through a simple to use graphical interface.
Softerra Adaxes aims to be comprehensive solution for management, administration and monitoring of Active Directory. Does it measure up? You be the judge.