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UserAccountControl is one of the most important attributes of user and computer accounts in Active Directory. This attribute determines the status of the account in the AD domain: whether the account…

Let’s look at how to create a simple administrator notification system when someone adds a new user to the important Active Directory security group. For example you want to track…

In PowerShell 3.0 you can directly access and parse HTML web pages on the Internet. To do it, a special Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet was introduced. This cmdlet allows you to implement…

Hi, admin! In one of my PowerShell scripts, I needed to determine the current external IP address of the Windows computer from the command line or (best) with some simple…

Most AD administrators use the repadmin (appeared in Windows Server 2003) and replmon (must be copied from Support Tool for WS2003) console tools to monitor and control Active Directory replication.…

How to quickly estimate the current number of user connections (sessions) to the IIS sites on webserver running on Windows Server? Such information will allow to determine and predict the…

In this article, we’ll look at PowerShell features to manage Active Directory domain groups. We’ll see how to create a new group in AD, add users to it and remove…

Besides the actual time and date, Time Zone is one of the basic time settings in any computer system. If you want the time to be displayed correctly, the Time…

Windows PowerShell (as well as the Command prompt) saves the history of executed commands only in the current PowerShell session. When the PowerShell console window is closed or the computer…

We continue to study useful PowerShell cmdlets to retrieve information from Active Directory. In one of the previous articles, we talked about Get-AD User cmdlet, which allows you to get…