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Active Directory Auditing Tool

https://www.manageengine.com/products/active-directory-audit/account-management-events/event-id-4...

Active Directory: Add a Domain Controller to PowerShell

https://247-it.io/en/active-directory-add-a-domain-controller-to-powershell/#:~:text=Domain%20Con...

Add a domain to the Active Directory

https://lazyadmin.nl/it/add-a-domain-to-the-active-directory/ How to add a domain to the Active ...

Add a Mapped Drive to a User Profile Using GPO

Log into the Group Policy Management console Create a new group policy and link it to the OU a...

Add all users in OU to security group

While working on figuring out how to add all of RS domestic to a security group quickly, develope...

Add Extension Attribute to User

Description This article will detail how to add an extension attribute to a user that will...

ADSI Purge

(&(Name=WHCC-01-VSRV03*))  (&(Name=LAFAD01*))                    Clean Up ...

Change Windows Desktop Background Using Group Policy

How to Change Windows Desktop Background Using Group Policy This demonstration is using a Window...

Checking Active Directory Domain Controller Health and Replication

https://woshub.com/check-active-directory-health-and-replication/ How to Check AD Domain Control...

Clean Up Server Metadata

This is the guide to use when a Domain Controller (DC) crashes and cannot be removed from the dom...

CONFIGURE NTP TIME SYNC USING GROUP POLICY

https://theitbros.com/configure-ntp-time-sync-group-policy/#:~:text=Configure%20Client%20Time%20S...

Create a Group to Assign Permissions to Access Files

Best practice is to always create a security group, and assign that security group file permissio...

Create WMI Filters for the GPO

Applies To: Windows Server 2012 To make sure that each GPO associated with a group can only be a...

Cross Forest Resource Security

Cross-forest resource security    To grant access to resources from one forest to another:  ...

Demote or Promote Domain Controller

Both of these commands need to be ran under credentials that have authority to demote the server....

Determine AD forest and domain level

Get-ADDomain | select domainMode, DistinguishedName   Get-ADForest | select forestMode    From...

Disable "These files might be harmful to your computer" warning?

https://superuser.com/questions/149056/disable-these-files-might-be-harmful-to-your-computer-warn...

Disabling and Enabling Outbound Replication

Disabling and Enabling Outbound Replication Last Updated: July 7, 2024 Disabling and En...

Domain Controller DNS Best Practice

It is best practice when using multiple domain controllers with the DNS role to set the servers a...

Domain Trust

Periodically we will get a call where the person cannot log into their computer and they get an e...

Force reinstall of applications deployed by software GPO after uninstall

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/82f1e144-78a3-4446-8aaf-18843c890cdc/force-r...

Get Password Info

DSQUERY // ADComputer         Get listing of all accounts with info:  Get-ADUser -filter * -...

How To Add Local Administrators via GPO (Group Policy)

https://thesysadminchannel.com/add-local-administrators-via-gpo-group-policy/ In every organizat...

How to Audit User Account Changes in Active Directory

https://www.lepide.com/how-to/audit-user-account-changes-in-active-directory.html#:~:text=To%20tr...

How to Change the Default Lock Screen Image using GPO

Step-by-step: How to Change the Default Lock Screen Image using GPO This example below will demo...

How to create and manage the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Templates in Windows

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/group-policy/create-and-manage-cent...

How to Disable NTLM Authentication in Windows Domain

https://woshub.com/disable-ntlm-authentication-windows/ The key NTLMv1 problems: weak encrypt...

How to Export Active Directory Users to CSV and Build Reports

https://adamtheautomator.com/export-active-directory-users-to-csv/ For many Active Directory (AD...

How to find the source of failed logon attempts

Step 1: Enable 'Audit Logon Events' policy Open 'Server Manager' on your Windows server ...

How To Fix Group Policy: Error Windows could not determine if the user and computer accounts are in the same forest

If you have an issue where the User Policy doesn’t get updated and gives you an error about the...

How to install and configure Microsoft LAPS

https://4sysops.com/archives/how-to-install-and-configure-microsoft-laps/ Download LAPS LAPS co...

How to Remove (Demote) a Domain Controller in Active Directory

Removing an Active Directory Domain Controller and ADDS Role (Step-by-Step) If you are going to ...

How to Remove (Demote) a Domain Controller in Active Directory

https://woshub.com/remove-domain-controller-active-directory/ Removing an Active Directory Domai...

How to store BitLocker keys in Active Directory

https://coady.tech/store-bitlocker-keys-in-ad/ BitLocker is a fantastic way to protect the d...

Joining Active Directory Error

https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/joining-active-directory-error.97316/ Hi...

Keytab file

A keytab is a file that contains the encrypted password for a user and should allow for joining t...

LAPS_OperationsGuide

  Local Administrator Password Management Detailed Technical Specification   Published: June ...

Migrate user domain profile from one domain to another domain

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/145014-migrate-user-domain-profile-from-one-domain-to-ano...

Modify Group Policy's refresh interval

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/how-can-i-modify-group-policys-refresh-interval A. By...

Move FSMO Roles

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity CM-01-HVSRV16 -OperationMasterRole Infrastruc...

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/activedirectory/move-addirectoryserveroperati...

Netlogon Logging

To enable NetLogon Logging, use the following command on a domain controller:  nltest /dbflag:0x...

Powershell export AD users in OU to CSV

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Rejoining an "untrusted" workstation and primary domain

Test-ComputerSecureChannel -Repair is all you need to do on the client Reset-ComputerMachinePass...

Rename Domain

Found this article which looks like it is very good    http://www.rebeladmin.com/2015/05/step-b...

repadmin

This command syncs all DC to this one  repadmin /syncall RHSC-00-VSRV18 /d /e     repadmin /sy...

Repairing Broken Trust Relationship Between Workstation and AD Domain

https://woshub.com/repair-trust-relationship-workstation-with-ad-domain/ In this article we’ll s...

Restore Default Domain Policy

Examples  Restore the Default Domain Policy GPO to its original state. You will lose any changes...

Securing Active Directory: Who can add computers to the domain? Only the domain admin?

https://sid-500.com/2017/09/09/securing-active-directory-who-can-add-computers-to-the-domain-only...

Security Groups

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/manage/understand-security-groups...

Step-By-Step: Manually Removing A Domain Controller Server

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/step-by-step-manually-removing-a-domain-co...

USER PROFILES AND USER FOLDERS REDIRECTION USING GPO

http://dalaris.com/user-profiles-and-user-folders-redirection-using-gpo/ Assume that you have a ...

Using NTDSUTIL Metada Cleanup to Remove a Failed/Offline Domain Controller Object.

https://chinnychukwudozie.com/2014/01/27/using-ntdsutil-metada-cleanup-to-remove-a-failedoffline-...

Wrong error message for missing .adml files

Symptoms SR symptoms: EN-US Domain Controller tries to create a settings report for a GPO. Th...

Transferring/Seizing FSMO Roles to Another Domain Controller

https://woshub.com/transfer-seize-fsmo-roles-in-active-directory/ Transferring/Seizing FSMO Role...

Raise domain and forest functional levels in Active Directory Domain Services

Raise domain and forest functional levels in Active Directory Domain Services Article 11/01...