In this article we’ll see the function I’ve built to get an AD Object without RSAT and fast. I’ve been thinking for a while to write a new function, mainly because I wanted to pass multiple SamAccountNames without having to write a filter. However I recently had to go through a ton of users and […]
Category: Active Directory
Resource Win7Only referenced in attribute displayName could not be found
This error appears when you have updated the ADML and ADMX file to Windwos 10, version 1803. Let’s see how to fix it! When trying to editing a policy, you receive this error: Resource ‘$(string id=Win7Only)’ referenced in attribute displayName could not be found. This is a known issue for Microsoft, in fact there was an […]
Replicate all group members from Group A to Group B in Powershell
This is going to be a very quick article that will show you how to simply replicate all members from a group over to another group with the AD powershell module. There are mainly two different goals: You want to replicate all group members from Group A to Group B in Powershell, as they are. […]
Set Permissions for a Print Server with Powershell
You cannot set permissions for a print server with Powershell alone. At least you can’t right now (4th of May 2017). There’s a way though 🙂 I spent a few hours researching this and I noticed I wasn’t the only one that wanted to set up a security group on a Print Server level in […]
Nearest Domain Controller without Powershell AD Module
Getting the nearest Domain Controller when the AD module is present, is fairly simple, all you would need to do is running the following: Get-ADDomainController -DomainName “itdroplets.com” -Discover -NextClosestSite But what if you want to achieve the same result on a client/server that doesn’t have the Powershell Active Directory modules installed? Well, in cmd you […]
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