Learn how to diagnose and fix common Active Directory replication issues – including DNS errors, network failures, and time sync problems. A practical troubleshooting guide for sysadmins to maintain AD health and prevent downtime. What Is Active Directory Replication? Active Directory (AD) is the backbone of most enterprise IT environments – managing user identities, access … Read more
If you’ve ever tried to access \\domain\SYSVOL and got hit with “Access Denied” or found the folder empty, you know the sinking feeling that follows.When SYSVOL isn’t behaving, Group Policies stop working, logon scripts go missing, and your domain controllers start giving you attitude. Let’s walk through—step by step—how to fix SYSVOL and replication issues … Read more
In this post, will use Active Directory PowerShell or EMC to get a list of all users, emails and their mobile phone numbers. By using Get-ADUser Cmdlet If you want to export Get-ADUser can retrieves a number of attributes by default, if you don’t need those, use Select-Object to retrieves the ones you only need: For EMC, you can run this … Read more
In this article, we will tell you some most important Group Policy Settings for preventing security breaches and secure your environment. Also, you will learn why these AD Group Policy settings cannot be ignored and Best Practice for Active Directory Group Policy Settings. A secure environment is a priority of each and every either large, medium or small … Read more
Looking for ways to disable or block PowerShell tools to run via cmd? Looking for ways to prevent PowerShell attack? In this article, we will discuss how to disable PowerShell with Group Policy (GPO) using Software Restriction Polices. By default on Windows 10 PowerShell is enabled for all users. Hackers, attackers can utilize this to … Read more
In this article, you will learn how to use command line utilities like; Dcdiag, Nslookup, etc to perform a domain controller health check. Several post seen where people looking solution for – how to check DNS working perfectly, how to test the internal DNS details or performance of DNS, etc.. Quick way to check DNS Health … Read more
To Get User’s security group membership Run below command: Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -Identity user | where {$_.groupCategory -eq ‘Security’} | add-adgroupmember -members USER To get all groups that a user is a member of Run below command: Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | select name Name —- Domain Users Domain Computers Workstation Admins Company Users Company Developers AutomatedProcessingTeam You may … Read more
The format of the schedule attribute of the following object is unrecognizable. As per Microsoft: “The format of the specified object’s Schedule attribute is not recognizable. A default schedule will be substituted. This event will continue to occur until the Schedule attribute on this object is corrected”. – Have you made any changes in AD … Read more
Couple of things you can do to troubleshoot Roaming Profile Error 1521. Check the permission, may be you don’t have the right permissions on the share. Check if you can browse to the correct share and folder on that server. Try creating a new user in AD and logon to the users PC and see … Read more
Learn how to easily export Active Directory Security Groups with their members to a CSV file in Windows PowerShell. Here is a Script: $Groups = Get-ADGroup -Properties * -Filter * -SearchBase “OU=Groups,DC=corp,DC=ourcompany,DC=Com” Foreach($G In $Groups) { Write-Host $G.Name Write-Host “————-” $G.Members } Here is another Script: $Groups = Get-ADGroup -Properties * -Filter {GroupCategory -eq “Security”} -SearchBase “OU=Groups,DC=domain,DC=com” … Read more