Recently, a friend asked me to help look at some issues in his customer’s Active Directory (AD). The customer’s AD consisted of a root domain and three Tree domains. I ran my AD documentat

In the last two weeks, I have seen several customers where Active Directory (AD) replication is reporting normal, but Group Policy is acting “odd”. Here is what I found. If you are still

In Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory (AD), Microsoft introduced managed service accounts. If you create a new AD domain with Windows Server 2008 R2 or later, when you look in Active Directory Us

#Version 1.20 19-Jan-2021 Added creating a CSV file Changed to create an object instead of text Added switch UseDcom to change from using TCP port 139 for testing connections to port 5985 (WinRM 2

#Version 1.10 29-Apr-2020 Cleaned up some code and typos driving my OCD up the wall Reformatted the terminating Write-Error messages to make them more visible and readable in the console I put this

#Version 1.10 29-Apr-2020 Add email capability to match other scripts Update Help Text with examples Add ScriptInfo Parameter Add code to show Script Options and write out Script Info file Chan

#Version 2.08 8-May-2020 Add checking for a Word version of 0, which indicates the Office installation needs repairing Change color variables $wdColorGray15 and $wdColorGray05 from [long] to [int] Ch

While Active Directory (AD) does not need DNS Reverse Lookup Zones, most Citrix and VMware products do. If you are visiting my website, you probably use Citrix and VMware products.  If you have heard

Another easy, simple addition to my toolbox: a PowerShell script to copy group members from one AD group to another. Why? Because I recently needed to do precisely that: after having created a new AD

Greetings, Here is a PDF of the presentation from February 27, 2020, for the Washington, DC Citrix Users Group. CUGC DC 2020 Presentation Thanks Webster

One of the questions asked when I am either doing Active Directory (AD) remediation work or preparing a customer for an AD migration is “what domain accounts are used by what services and on wha

#Version 1.23 12-Sep-2019 Add a Rename parameter switch. (Thanks to Jani Kohonen for this suggestion) If a GPO name contains any the following characters, <>:”\/|?*, replace the characte

#Version 1.22 24-Apr-2019 Fixed bug when a GPO had been linked multiple times. The script counted all the GPOs, even the duplicates. Added -Unique to the Sort. If a GPO was linked ten times, the scri

The original purpose of this script was to backup and report on all Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in an Active Directory (AD) domain. That worked well for small domains, but recently I have worked with

Back in June 2009, I wrote the original How To Hide Additional Drive Letters article. Recently, someone asked me how to do the same task but with an ADMX file instead of ADM. Following the original e

I have been working with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) since July 2001 and doing AD Health Checks since September 2003. One item I have done hundreds of times, failed on me yesterday during an AD re

I do a LOT of Active Directory (AD) Health Checks. One of the things I look for are User Settings in the Default Domain Policy. Why? Because Microsoft says only four groups of settings should be conf

Greetings, If you attended my webinar presented, thanks for being there. This presentation is based on the original presentation presented at Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco and then numerous oth

#Version 1.10 1-Jun-2018 Add Parameter MaxZipSize (in MBs) [default is 150 MB] Test combined size of the two Zip files created to see if <= to MaxZipSize If > MaxZipSize, do not attempt the em

Some of you know that I do a lot of work with Active Directory and Group Policy (GPO). I needed a script that would: Backup all GPOs in a domain Give me HTML and XML reports for all those GPOs Zip up