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

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 by Choice Solutions, thanks for being there. This presentation is based on the original presentation presented at Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco a

#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

#Version 2.04 7-Apr-2018 Code clean-up for most recommendations made by Visual Studio Code You can always find the most current script by going to https://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-

I do a lot of Active Directory (AD) Health Checks. Every time I do an AD Health Check, I find something else I need to add to the various documentation scripts. For this current AD Health Check, I fou

#Version 2.18 released 10-Mar-2018 Added Log switch to create a transcript log You can always find the most current script by going to https://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-documentation

  #Version 2.03 13-Jan-2018 Removed code that made sure all Parameters were set to default values if for some reason they did not exist or values were $Null Removed the Visible parameter Reorder

I finally got around to implementing the most requested feature. Making the script work for a child domain in a multi-domain Active Directory Forest. My PowerShell and AD mentor, Michael B. Smith, he

On a recent project, I needed to generate a report of all users who had a Home Drive configured on the Profile tab in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). Something most IT Pros do not know i