For IT Pro’s new to Active Directory, Manning have released another book in the Month of Lunches series thats worth a look. Get your copy here: Learn Active Directory in a month of lunches Having read the PowerShell 2, PowerShell… Read More ›
Active Directory
Accessing Resources Across Trusts
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772808(v=ws.10).aspx If you need to get your head around how resource access works across AD Forests, it is clearly explained here. Very, very useful if you’re working on large scale AD restructuring projects.
Find accounts with home folders by naming convention.
I found myself doing this today, basically we have a number of account types (service accounts, resource accounts) that should not have home directories. however, due to incorrect provisioning choices they do. We wanted to identify these so we could… Read More ›
Active Directory search is your friend
After a discussion today with one of our Level 2 guys about administering AD users and groups I was inspired to post as I wonder how most people manage a large AD. One of our environments has OU’s that contain… Read More ›
Roles Based Access Control–Dan Holme
I wanted to share a link to a presentation I saw recently by Dan Holme. He covers Roles Based Management which is an subject high on most companies priorities list at the moment, it’s also something I have been primarily… Read More ›