I recently went through another migration. One of the post migration tasks was to fix permission to update lists. The “ManagedBy” attribute had been copied across, but not the security descriptor from the group. This show PowerShell script can be run from the Exchange Management Shell to grab the value from ManagedBy and write it [...]
Tagged Active Directory, Exchange 2007, managedby, PowerShellThese snippets of code shows how to search Active Directory using LDAP to return all domains in the current Forest (based on current authentication).
Tagged Active Directory, C# .NET, list domains, PowerShell, VB .NET, vbs, VbScriptWhen it comes to testing for group membership in Active Directory with VbScript there are a lot of different options. The following examples intend to demonstrate the basic to the complex.
Tagged Active Directory, groups, ismember, member, memberOf, nested groups, vbs, VbScriptAt times it can be very convenient to be able to work with IP Addresses and subnetting in VbScript. This collection of functions handles subnet math in VbScript. A PowerShell version of these functions can be found here.
Tagged IP Conversion, Subnet Math, vbs, VbScriptThis post explains how to identify and report on stale records in a dynamically updated Microsoft DNS zone.
Tagged Active Directory, Microsoft DNS, PowerShell, reporting, Stale Records, vbs, VbScript, Windows 2003, wmiThis small script will list all attributes listed in the Active Directory Schema which have been set to replicate into the Global Catalog. Inclusion in the Global Catalog is defined by setting the attribute “isMemberOfPartialAttributeSet” to True.
Tagged Active Directory, Global Catalog, Schema, vbs, VbScriptConverts an NT user name into a Distinguished Name (object path) in Active Directory using the NameTranslate interface.
Tagged Active Directory, NameTranslate, vbs, VbScriptA VbScript function to retrieve all Exchange Information Stores from Active Directory, returning the results as a Dictionary object containing the store name and store distinguishedName.
Tagged Active Directory, Exchange, information stores, vbs, VbScriptWindows 2008 has an improved user interface for DNS. The main console includes details of a records time stamp and whether or not the record is Static. Life isn’t quite so easy with Windows 2003. However, as each static record has a time stamp set to 0 they can be found with a little work.
Tagged Active Directory, Microsoft DNS, PowerShell, reporting, vbs, VbScript, Windows 2003, wmi, wmic