Active Directory contains a number of attributes which hold date information. This article shows how to generate LDAP Filters for these attributes in both VbScript and PowerShell.
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A script to enumerate trust information from an Active Directory forest.
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NTFS (File System) and Share security can be enumerated using the Win32_LogicalFileSecuritySetting and Win32_LogicalShareSecuritySetting WMI classes. This post demonstrates how to use each class to read the security descriptors.
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Group Policy will, by default, only set the desktop wallpaper using Active Desktop. It is also possible to set the wallpaper using the logon script, or using a custom Group Policy template.
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Occasionally it can be useful to know how to retrieve the parent, or OU holding an object, from Active Directory.
Perhaps the easiest way to do this is using the Parent property.
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This script uses WMI and Active Directory queries to return information about mailbox sizes from Exchange and the limits set in Active Directory.
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A number of people have been looking for Get-MailboxStatistics for Exchange 2003. I have a PowerShell version of this script for exactly that reason here.
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A script to read the mailbox security descriptor from Active Directory with the intention of finding a particular user or security principal. It will not display the security descriptor, it simply displays whether or not the account is present in the access control list.
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The VbScript below demonstrates how subnet information might be retrieved from Active Directory. It is possible to use a search using to return this information (for objectClass=subnet). This method connects to the subnets container and loops through the contents returning the network address and mask length in a Dictionary object.
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Using WMI it is possible to modify any existing record hosted on a Microsoft DNS Server. The method used varies slightly depending on which record type we want to change.
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This VbScript searches the current domain for all users with “User cannot change password”, “Password never expires”, or “Trusted for delegation” set, the results of the search are written to a tab delimited text file.
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