Category Archives: Active Directory

Manning Deal of the Day 19 July 2016

Posted on Monday 18 July 2016 by richardsiddaway

Deal of the Day July 19: Half off my book Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches. Use code dotd071916au at http://bit.ly/2a8jroO For more information on Manning’s Deal of the Day see –  https://www.manning.com/dotd.

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Time to stock up your book collection?

Posted on Saturday 12 July 2014 by richardsiddaway

Manning are offering 40% off everything – print & ebooks – http://www.manning.com. They have a very extensive set of PowerShell books – now would be the time to add to your collection

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Rename a user account to the display name

Posted on Wednesday 11 June 2014 by richardsiddaway

I had a question left on my blog about renaming all of the user accounts in an OU had their name changed to match the display name.  I started by creating a few dummy accounts: PS s> Get-ADUser -Filter * … Continue reading →

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Learn Active Directory Management in a MoL on offer

Posted on Sunday 16 March 2014 by richardsiddaway

Learn Active Directory Management in a MoL is 43% off through April 3, 2014 with code pbradm at http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/

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Automatically create folder for home drive

Posted on Friday 28 February 2014 by richardsiddaway

In this post  https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/setting-ad-attributes-from-a-csv-file/ I showed how to modify the user’s home folder setting in Active Directory. A comment was recently left asking about automatically creating the folder on the fileserver and creating the share that is associated with it. … Continue reading →

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Learn AD Management in a Month of Lunches–ebook available

Posted on Thursday 27 February 2014 by richardsiddaway

The ebook – PDF format – for Learn AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been published – http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/ If you bought the ebook as part of your MEAP you should be able to down load it – you’ll … Continue reading →

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LastLogoff timestamp

Posted on Monday 23 December 2013 by richardsiddaway

I was recently asked if there was any way to fill in the LastLogoff timestamp The short answer is no.  The values in the attributes related to logons are maintained by Active Directory during the logon process. I wouldn’t want … Continue reading →

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A new version of ADMT

Posted on Monday 16 December 2013 by richardsiddaway

A new version of the AD Migration Tool (ADMT) has been announced – http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2013/12/13/an-update-for-admt-and-a-few-other-things-too.aspx While not ready for download just yet at least we know its in the pipeline and supports the newer versions of Windows

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Final MEAP for AD Lunches

Posted on Wednesday 11 December 2013 by richardsiddaway

The final MEAP for AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been released. The book is on a half price offer today so still time for a Christmas bargain if you’re quick http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/

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December 11–Deal of the Day AD Month of Lunches

Posted on Tuesday 10 December 2013 by richardsiddaway

Deal of the Day December 11: Half off my book Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches. Use code dotd1211au at http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/   Also available: Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches (www.manning.com/jones5/) Learn SCCM 2012 … Continue reading →

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