#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 2.26 released 8-May-2020 Add checking for a Word version of 0, which indicates the Office installation needs repairing Add Receive Side Scaling setting to Function OutputNICItem Change color

#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

Version 2.25 released 22-Apr-2020 Remove the SMTP parameterset and manually verify the parameters Reorder parameters Update Function SendEmail to handle anonymous unauthenticated email Update Help T

#Version 2.07 21-Apr-2020 Remove the SMTP parameterset and manually verify the parameters Update Function SendEmail to handle anonymous unauthenticated email Update Help Text with examples You ca

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

Version 2.24 released 13-Feb-2020 Fixed several variable name typos General code cleanup Updated the following Exchange Schema Versions: “15312” = “Exchange 2013 CU7 through CU23&#

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

#Version 2.22 released 14-Feb-2019 Added a line under the OU table stating how many OUs are not protected Added color $wdColorYellow Added Exchange schema version 17000 for Exchange 2019 Added to the

#Version 2.21 released 11-Nov-2018 For HTML output, reverted the output Hardware and Service functions back to using $rowdata = @() Using $rowdata = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList did not a

#Version 2.20 released 28-Sep-2018 Added Domain Functional Level of 7 for Windows Server 2016 Added Forest Functional Level of 7 for Windows Server 2016 Added Domain Schema version 88 for Server 2019

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

#Version 2.05 1-Aug-2018 Fixed bug in WriteWordLine function reported by Steve Burkett You can always find the most current script by going to https://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-doc

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