WebAD is presenting today at the 17th Annual Technology Planning Conference for Region 10 of the Texas Education Service Center (ESC) in Richardson, Texas. The presentation highlights free tools and technologies that can help K-12 school districts manage their Active Directory environment, especially the automated creation, moving and deletion of student user accounts. Check out [...]
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Disable loading the default drive using Active Directory Powershell module
I’m sure I’ll run in to this one, especially since I use PC’s that aren’t joined to the domain. I’m going to probably put this in my Powershell profile to avoid waiting for it to load and potential error messages. http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2010/04/12/disable-loading-the-default-drive-ad-during-import-module.aspx For more information contact us at www.webactivedirectory.com, or call us at (+1) 800-747-3565
Avoid DHCP conflicts
A super simple way to make sure you aren’t handing out an IP address via DHCP that is already in use…if you are using Windows as a DHCP server you’d be a fool not to use this. Note: this only works for IPv4 and if your client firewall drops ICMP then it won’t work either. [...]
Group Policy Search
Cool little website to search for available Group Policies, a bit faster than using the filter option in the Group Policy Management Console. http://gps.cloudapp.net/
Certificate error using Citrix Receiver on the iPad
If you’re like me and you use Citrix products and have been looking forward to trying the Citrix Receiver for the iPad then you might have the same issue I did. I have always used a Windows client when using the Receiver or Online Plug-in. Well…it turns out that the Receiver on the iPad doesn’t [...]
Network Icons for Network Locations – GREAT IDEA!
I honestly had never given this any thought but it sounds like a great idea to do in corporate environments. There are so many Group Policy objects I never even noticed it. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=2795&tag=content;leftCo For more information contact us at www.webactivedirectory.com, or call us at (+1) 800-747-3565
Audit GPO Inheritance with Powershell
I’m working on my next Active Directory Health Check article and I came across this article which applies to one of the areas we review as part of an Active Directory Health Check. Check it out! http://daniellange.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/auditing-gpo-inheritance-with-powershell/ For more information contact us at www.webactivedirectory.com, or call us at (+1) 800-747-3565
How to Backup and Restore Group Policy
This article includes a command line example of how to backup group policy, now you can schedule it using a powershell cmdlet too… http://www.xenappblog.com/2010/how-to-backup-and-restore-group-policy/
Yet another way to get Active Directory Password Expiration
I know we’ve posted a few times on this topic but I came across another script that retrieves the Active Directory password expiration. The main difference is that this script allows you to fileter, sort, export, or group the results of the query. If you are looking for a tool to send email reminders to [...]
Free powershell cmdlets – Active Directory
PowershellPack is a free download with some additional Powershell cmdlets like TaskScheduler which is just what it sounds like, a cmdlet to list, create, or delete tasks which is extremely useful given all the additional functionality the task scheduler has in Windows 2008 and Windows 7. Here is a list of the other cmdlets and [...]
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