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Powershell: Search setting in GPOs
In this article we will describe how to search for a GPO matching several settings with Powershell. In this post and this one Lindsay Harris describes how to achieve this by exporting GPO reports in...
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Powershell: AD replication
Repadmin monitors the replication in your Active Directory Forest, you can read this AskDs post about this tool. The command line “repadmin /replsum” helps you retrieve the global forest replication...
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Powershell: WSUS clients inventory
In this post we will describe how to make a WSUS clients inventory, we will search for the computers in your domain which are not able to receive MS security updates because they are not supported any...
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MMC tales…
In this post we will discuss some issues we had when using Microsoft Management Consoles to manage DNS (dnsmgmt.msc), Group Policy Objects (rsop.msc, gpmc.msc) and AD accounts (dsa.msc). No, we don’t...
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Powershell: Blackberry and Activesync mobile devices inventory
When you setup a corporate Exchange mail system users can access their mailbox on most mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone…) through the ActiveSync protocol. For blackberry owners to access...
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Powershell: VMWare and physical Windows server inventory
We will describe in this post how to make an inventory of your physical and VMWare virtual machines running Windows Server. For each virtual machine, we will also retrieve on which physical host the...
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Powershell: Enable ActiveSync for users member of an AD group
We will describe in this post how to enable the mobile access to your mail system for only some employees. Only users who belong to the LDAP389-ACTIVESYNC will be able to use the ActiveSync protocol...
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Powershell: Compact the Active Directory database
We will see in this post how to automate the AD database (NTDS.dit) offline defragmentaion with Powershell under Windows 2008 server. With Windows 2008 server, you no longer need to restart the DC in...
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Pentesting an Active Directory infrastructure
We will see in this post some steps of a pentest against an ADDS domain. This pentest focuses only on the Microsoft System and does not take into account Antivirus, Firewall, IDS and IPS protections....
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Powershell: Oracle, Exchange, secure string.
We will describe in this post how to connect to an Oracle database using Powershell cmdlets, this database hosts HR data. We will check if every employee has an Exchange 2010 mailbox. The common key...
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