Articles tagged with: active directory
PowerShell: Target Computers from AD
Need to execute a command against every computer in a domain? Easy: Here's how to do it using nothing more than what's built into PowerShell: $strFilter = "computer" $objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $objSearcher.SearchRoot = $objDomain $objSearcher.SearchScope = "Subtree" $objSearcher.PageSize = 1000 $objSearcher.Filter = "(objectCategory=$strFilter)" $colResults =
Who says Microsoft doesn’t like Macs?
Proving that they're out to help IT professionals with allĀ of their challenges, Microsoft TechNet Magazine this month has a special interoperability issue, which includes an Mac interop article authored by yours truly. You'll find: Mine: Managing Macs in a Windows environment Interacting with Windows from a Mac environment Authenticating
Free Tool Adds Change Control to Active Directory
Wish you could stop people from adding incomplete objects to AD? Wish you could block new objects and changes that haven't been reviewed and approved? You can: Just get ADMC, a free tool - with a free permanent license - that extends ADUC and adds complete change control, business rules,
Paper on Read-Only Domain Controllers
TurboChargeAD.org is hosting a paper I wrote on Read-Only Domain Controllers in Windows Server 2008. The paper covers what RODCs are for, why you might use them, some of the caveats about them, potential security hiccups you need to be aware of, and related features of Win2008 that help contribute
Keep that feather away!
I had to look and see if it was April 1st when I saw this press release. Wow! This is a pretty big deal for the industry - these two are the titans of the third-party software market when it comes to Active Directory and, to a lesser degree, Exchange.
Mac Interop: AD Authentication
So how do you get a Mac to log on to an Active Directory (AD) domain? Fortunately, when Microsoft created AD, they decided to use an industry-standard authentication protocol: Kerberos. That paves the way to allowing many different operating systems to utilize AD's authentication services. On a Mac, it all
