Category Microsoft Windows Server 2012

13/02/2023

Get ACL Permissions for a specific OU

By Stephen Hackers in Active Directory, Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Cloud & Datacenter Management, Cyber Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, Identify Weakness, Improve Security, Monthly Security Checks, PowerShell, Query, Security

# Get ACL Permissions for a specific OU (Get-ACL "AD:$((Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Identity 'OU=Computers,DC=Test,DC=LOCAL').distinguishedname)").access | Select IdentityReference,AccessControlType,ActiveDirectoryRights.IsInherited #Other examples available from https://www.easy365manager.com/how-to-document-ou-delegation/ https://shellgeek.com/get-ad-ou-permissions-report/

01/02/2023

Query Active Directory – Security Script

By Stephen Hackers in Active Directory, Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Cloud & Datacenter Management, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, Identify Weakness, Improve Security, Monthly Security Checks, PowerShell, Query, Security

PowerShell script to query active directory : Identify Accounts with Password expiring is disabled Identify Accounts have not logged on for 30 or 90 days and accounts have never logged…

16/06/2022

Import Reg Key To Remote Computer

By Steve in DevOps, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell, Windows 7, Windows Development Tag Computer, Import, Invoke-Command, PowerShell, Registry, Remote, WinRM

Challenge : Import reg key settings to a remote compute Requires WinRM to be running Execute as Administrator **This script worked when tested on a Window 2021 server to a…

21/05/2020

Azure – Update Management

By Steve in Azure Security, Cloud & Datacenter Management, Cyber Security, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Security, Logs, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Update Management, WSUS Tag Azure, Azure Security, Linux, Patch Management, Update Management, Virtual Machines, Windows, Windows Updates

How to maintain the patch status of your Windows and Linux machines "You can use Update Management in Azure Automation to manage operating system updates for your Windows and Linux…

18/02/2019

Ping sweep script test

By Steve in Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell, Windows 7 Tag BATCH, Count, CSV, ForLoop, Import CSV, Jamie Crookes, module for PowerShell, Ping, Ping utility function, PingSweep, PowerShell

POWERSHELL import-CSV "" | foreach { $result = Test-Connection -ComputerName $_.Name -Count 1 -Quiet $_.name, $result -join ',' | out-file "c:\scripts\PingSweep\computer_results.txt" -Append } COMMAND /BATCH SCRIPT Create list of computers…

02/10/2018

If Not Exists – Batch Script

By Steve in Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Tag Batc, IfNot

Create a batch file to check a text file is in the location specified, else run a task. #This batch file checks to see if a text file is…

02/10/2018

Files Older Than 3 Months Combined Total File Size

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag file sizes, lastwritetime

A requirement to identify the total file size of all files not used in the last 3 months. This was the solution #Run as administrator #You need to have permission…

11/09/2018

Task : Output A List Of Home Drive Paths Configured In Active Directory

By Steve in Active Directory, DS Commands, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, CSV EXPORT, DSQUERY, Get-ADUser, HOME DRIVE, PowerShell, USER PROPERTIES

#DSQuery dsquery user -name "*" -limit 0 | dsget user -samid -hmdir -hmdrv -profile >c:\temp\usersV2.txt #PowerShell # More flexibility # Includes the state of the computer account (Enable or…

13/08/2018

Get a list of active users which have logged on to the domain in the last 7 days

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, Get-ADUser, Get-Date, LastLogonDate, PowerShell

# Get a list of users which have logged on to the domain in the last 7 days $Date = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) Get-ADUser -Filter {LastLogonDate -gt $Date} | Select distinguishedName

01/08/2018

PowerShell Script to find all AD users who have the “cannot change password” box checked in a specific OU

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, CannotChangePassword, DistinguishedName, Get-ADUser, PowerShell

# script to find all AD users who have the "cannot change password" box checked in a specific OU # Windows Server 2016 # Powershell Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties CannotChangePassword…