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PowerShell : How many users were created in an office since x number of days ? 1

Dec

2009

A request came in from the Access Control team requesting that they be provided with the users that have been created in a particular office since last 90 days. As usual, PowerShell (with QAD cmdlets) has very simple one liners you can retrieve this information with. You may also use this to export this data ...

Group Nesting Reference Chart 2

Sep

2009

The Active Directory Groups Nesting restrictions is an often-discussed topic among my peers especially in a multi-domain forest and often a question raised in forums and mailing lists. Although there have been some great blogs written that dive deep into the technical restrictions, I personally needed a simple reference chart that I could refer to ...

What is ADRAP Scoping Tool ?

Jul

2009

Microsoft earlier this month released the AD Risk Assessment Program Scoping Tool to public. My look at it tells me that this tool essentially more fancily does what ADRAP Sutiability Scripts did, which came with ADRAP Snapshot Tool, which of course came when you had the official ADRAP engagement. ADRAP could be extremely benefical for any ...

The Infamous /3gb Startup Switch

Jun

2008

What is it ? Windows Server 2003 includes support for a startup switch that lets you tune the allocation of use of memory and memory address space. Regardless of the amount of physical memory in your system, Windows uses a virtual address space of 4 GB, with 2 GB allocated to user-mode processes (for example, ...

How to find out your server uptime

Apr

2008

Using Uptime utility from Microsoft you can get your server uptime (i.e time since the last reboot) which can come in handy particularly when you are trying to troubleshoot a server’s unexpected reboot and failures. Uptime.exe can be used to display the current uptime of the local or remote system. Optionally, it can also scan ...

How to rename a Windows Server 2008 domain 64

Apr

2008

Previously you have been able to use RENDOM utility provided by Microsoft to rename your Window 2000 and Windows Server 2003 domains. However in Windows Server 2008 domain you don’t have to separately install Rendom utility. It gets installed as part of “Active Directory Domain Services” role when you promote a server to the DC ...