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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How Active Directory Calculates Account Password Expiration Dates
It’s common to want to retrieve password expiration dates for users by querying Active Directory directly. Conversely, you might want to obtain a list of all users whose passwords will expire soon. Of course, you cannot use Active Directory Users & Computers to view the password expiration value and tools like ADSI Edit can only [...]
Customer Service: The Fix is IN!
Customer service has not died, contrary to popular belief. Frankly, it’s alive and well if you know where to look. However, a lot of poor or non-existent customer service offerings for a wide array of products are out there and these foster that ill feeling that customer service is an afterthought to most organizations. Poor [...]
How do the attributes in the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) user interface map to the named LDAP attributes in Active Directory?
We’ve had this article on our support site for a long time and it’s one of the most high-traffic articles we have. Why? Because it’s quite difficult to figure out which AD attributes are represented in the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) user interface with the obtuse and antiquated names defined in LDAP (really, [...]
How to Troubleshoot Slow LDAP Searches
Critical must read for you Active Directory admins! How to troubleshoot or even just detect slow LDAP searches. http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=246
Windows Active Directory update solutions for the small-medium sized enterprises: Top 5
At Web Active Directory, we get a good number of prospects that visit our website and ask for evaluations for our products. One category of prospects includes small- to medium-sized businesses looking for ways to automate and delegate Windows Active Directory updates to end-users. Companies sized from 100 – 1,000 employees typically have this need. [...]
How to use Powershell to check if an Active Directory user account already exists
Using Powershell to create an Active Directory user account? Maybe you need to check to see if the samaccountname already exists? Perfect then, here’s your powershell script to check it. http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/ab137ae7-e674-407e-87d3-8f76d4cfccb0
Active Directory Design Guide
It’s great to see Microsoft publish a design guide for Active Directory. I haven’t read all of it yet but I do like that the guidance is specific to different business verticals and scenarios. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=88f0184c-8f03-4f0f-b3f9-5109255fb461
Powershell variables
If you want to make your Powershell scripts infinitely powerful and flexible use variables! For example, lets say you create a powershell script that manually shuts down some services in a specific order, then reboots the server, then manually starts some services in a specific order. If at a minimum you use variables for the [...]
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