February 6, 2012 5:00 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShellBuilding on the recent post about testing replication I though a bit more automation was needed. Lets create a function to discover the domain controllers
function get-DomainControllerNames
February 5, 2012 2:06 PM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell,
WMIWe’ve seen a few things we can do with the WMI provider for Active Directory. One of the most useful is testing replication
function test-replication{
January 28, 2012 2:51 PM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell,
WMIContinuing our quick look at The ActiveDirectory name space lets have a look at the MSAD_NamingContext class
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\MicrosoftActiveDirectory -Class MSAD_NamingContext |
Format-Table DistinguishedName, IsFullReplica –AutoSize
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January 28, 2012 10:20 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell v2,
WMIA lot of the Active Directory related functionality has been removed from WMI but there is a little bit left in the root\MicrosoftActiveDirectory namespace.
This is on a Windows 2008 R2 domain controller – I don’t know if this is available on down level versions of Windows.
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September 6, 2011 11:29 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell v2,
WMIQuick function to determine if a given machine is in a domain or workgroup
function test-domain{
[
September 5, 2011 12:33 PM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell v2,
Registry,
WMINo its not the latest Internet game.
Active Directory synchronises the computer clock times. To know what server is being used
function get-timeserver{
September 4, 2011 12:16 PM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell v2,
WMILast time we looked at turning on logging – for one or more criteria. The normal state of diagnostic logging is None i.e. the options are set to zero. If we have only a few options set we can use set-logsetting to revert to no logging. Alternatively we can reset all logging to a zero state
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September 4, 2011 3:32 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell v2,
WMINow that we know what the options are we can look at switching them on.
function set-logsetting{
[
September 3, 2011 1:31 PM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell v2,
WMIWith 24 logging options to choose from its difficult to keep track of them. We already have the data in a ash table so lets just display it
function get-logsettingoptions{ ...
