Tag: Active Directory

• Secure Wireless Access and Authentication with Radius on WS2012R2 Network Policy Server .

  Basic 802.1X Wireless network implementation requires an alphanumeric network key for access and authentication. In an enterprise environment this is not ideal. I’ve recently reconfigured and redesigned a client site’s WPAPersonal Wireless network for Radius (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) Authentication on an NPS (Network Policy Server) Server running on the Windows Server 2012R2 platform…

  jbernec

  September 20, 2016

  Active Directory, Network Policy Server, Radius Server

  Active Directory, Certificate, Certificate Authority, Group Policy, Network Policy Server, NPS, PowerShell, Radius Server, Wifi, Windows Server 2012 R2, Wireless Network

• Interactive PowerShell 4.0 Script Automates Active Directory User and Mailbox Creation.

  In line with the objective of streamlining and automating new employee/user creation process for help desk/level 1 support, I wrote the following PowerShell script to help precisely define the steps in the process, further reduce the chance for human error and cut down time to finish the task. The interactive PowerShell script accepts user input…

  jbernec

  January 14, 2015

  Active Directory, PowerShell, Scripts, WIndows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Active Directory, New-User, Parameters, Scripts

• PowerShell Script uses Split() Method to display Active Directory Users’ Organizational Unit and other Properties.

  A colleague was trying to generate a report of Active Directory Users, displaying their Organizational Unit and PasswordNeverExpires property status. Normally this should be very simple, but they ran into a small snag. The Active Directory module at the time of this writing which is PowerShell 4.0 does not have a direct Organizational Unit property…

  jbernec

  October 9, 2014

  Active Directory, Powershell 4.0, Script

  Active Directory, Cmdlets, Organizational Unit, PowerShell, PowerShell 4.0

• Creating New Equipment Address List in Exchange 2010.

  The steps and cmdlets below enabled me configured a separate address list in Exchange 2010 to manage all Equipment. Create the Address List and specify the Recipient Filter: [PS] C:\>New-AddressList -name “All Equipment” -RecipientFilter {RecipientType -eq “UserMailbox” -and RecipientTypeDetails -eq “EquipmentMailbox”} Run the Update-AddressList on the New Address List: [PS] C:\>Update-AddressList -Identity “All Equipment” To…

  jbernec

  April 30, 2014

  Active Directory, Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Cmdlets, Exchange Management Shell, Microsoft Exchange

  Active Directory, Address Lists, Cmdlets, Microsoft Exchange 2010, OAB, Offline Address Book

• Using NTDSUTIL Metada Cleanup to Remove a Failed/Offline Domain Controller Object.

  In this post, I would like to talk about using the ntdsutil utility for metadata cleanup. A domain controller failure ‘DC00’ recently occurred in my lab. Running the repadmin /replsum command confirmed a replication error and showed DC00 as unavailable: Since a dcpromo was obviously out of the question, I used the Ntdsutil metadata cleanup…

  jbernec

  January 27, 2014

  Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, DCPromo, Domain Controller, DSRM, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, NTDSUtil, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Active Directory, DNS, Domain controller, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, metadata cleanup, ntdsutil

• Demoting the last Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller with PowerShell.

  As with promoting a server to domain controller, demoting the a domain controller is also a straight forward process with PowerShell. The following PowerShell cmdlets are available from the ADDSDeployment module: Uninstall Active Directory: The demote process got a little tricky because this was the last DC in the domain and had an Operations Master…

  jbernec

  January 13, 2014

  Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, DCPromo, Domain Controller, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Active Directory, Cmdlets, Powershell 3.0, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server 2012, WS 2012, WS2012 R2

• Deploying a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller in an existing Win2003 Functional Level Domain.

  My first task before deploying a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller in a Windows Server 2003 forest functional level environment was to run the Test-ADDSDomainControllerInstallation cmdlet and determine my domain environment’s readiness to accept the new Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller installation without any glitches: [ws2012r2]: PS C:\Users\admin\Documents> Test-ADDSDomainControllerInstallation -DomainName genesys.net | fl…

  jbernec

  December 30, 2013

  Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, DCPromo, Domain Controller, DSRM, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, NTDSUtil, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Active Directory, Cmdlets, dcdiag, DNS, Domain controller, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, Operations Master, Powershell 3.0, Schema Version, Windows PowerShell, WS2012 R2

• Seizing Active Directory FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operations ) roles with Powershell.

  I have been running 2 Virtual Machines as Active Directory Domain Controllers in the Lab for sometime now. DC00 was running Windows Server 2003 R2 and DC01 is running Windows Server 2008 R2. But recently I lost a Hyper-v machine hosting DC00 Domain Controller VM, I had no replica available to immediately failover and didn’t…

  jbernec

  December 23, 2013

  Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, Domain Controller, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, NTDSUtil, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Active Directory, Cmdlets, Domain controller, Flexible Single Master Operations, FSMO, ntdsutil, Operations Master, Powershell 3.0, Windows PowerShell

• Renaming AD User Object Surname Property.

  The following script renames the Surname property of an Active Directory User Object. The script requires PowerShell 3.0. The only edit required is the organizational Exchange Server name specified in the New-PSSession cmdlet. The script accepts the Given Name, Surname and new Surname parameters’ input from the console,executes the rename of the Active Directory object…

  jbernec

  November 18, 2013

  Active Directory, Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Cmdlets, Exchange Management Shell, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, WIndows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Active Directory, Powershell 3.0

• How to promote Windows Server 2012 to a Domain Controller

  Originally posted on Exchange Times: Microsoft has done away with dcpromo when it comes to Windows Server 2012. We’ve been so accustomed to using dcpromo that I actually struggled a bit to promote a 2012 server to a DC in one of my labs. This short video shows how to install the Active Directory Directory…

  jbernec

  October 16, 2013

  Active Directory, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Active Directory