script Synchronizing Disabled User Accounts Between Active Directory Domains (forest) Using PowerShell Managing multiple domains within an organization can be a complex task even more during migration phases which can last some times... One common challenge is ensuring that the user accounts are synchronized across domains, especially when disabling or deleting users in the source domain... Stephane Thirion 20 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
script Automated Random User Creation Script for Active Directory If you're working with Active Directory (AD) and need to create multiple users for a reason or another, this script can help you automate the process. This script creates a specified number of random users... Stephane Thirion 19 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
script Automating Home Directory Settings for Active Directory Users with PowerShell Here is a script that simplifies the process of setting home directories for users in Active Directory. The Script: # Define the log file path $logFilePath = "C:\PathToLogFile\AD_HomeDirectory_ Stephane Thirion 20 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
PowerShell Bulk add emails to Active Directory accounts Recently I had to make a lot of changes to Active Directory accounts migrated from several other forests and domains. Emails attribute needed to be created / changed to match the Stephane Thirion 3 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
account delegation Netscaler native OTP Active Directory account delegation How to minimise the right given to the Active Directory service account used by the LDAP policies on Netscaler for OTP configuration ? When setting up Citrix native OTP in Netscaler Stephane Thirion 22 Mar 2023 · 2 min read
Active directory Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2022 Server As Microsoft Windows 2022 became (almost) available, this is time again to move the FSMO roles from Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022. Before destroying everything to rebuilt, I Stephane Thirion 3 Jan 2022 · 3 min read
2FA RDS access to applications with second authentication factor by smartcard Hello, I wrote this tutorial to represent the parameters to implement to successfully implement smart card authentication in RDS. In this environment, RDS publishing servers is in a different Direcory Rodolphe Herpeux 7 Jan 2021 · 6 min read
Active directory Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2019 Server Be careful, the Windows 2019 Server iso have been pulled out, it should be back shortly (Nov-2018) As Microsoft Windows 2019 became (almost) available, this is time again to move Stephane Thirion 6 Nov 2018 · 3 min read
Active directory Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2016 Server At the end of this blog, if you want to go further with 2016 migration (DHCP, ADFS…) go to check Eric (my Norwegian CTP fellow) blog here As Microsoft Windows Stephane Thirion 20 Oct 2016 · 3 min read
Active directory Windows Server 2012 - Migrating FSMO Roles I installed one AD when Microsoft Windows Server 2012 was still in Release Candidate with the Datacenter edition, of course since few days my DC was rebooting every hour, the Stephane Thirion 20 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
Active directory Setup a new Active Directory forest with Windows 2008 Quick quide to show how to setup a new forest on Windows 2008 fresh install. I leaved this computer in DHCP to show and make you remember you have a Stephane Thirion 13 Dec 2008 · 1 min read
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