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Summary: Ian Farr talks about using Windows PowerShell to find and remediate Active Directory members that don’t support linked-value replication.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we welcome back Microsoft PFE, Ian Farr, as our guest blogger. To read more of Ian's previous guest posts, see these Hey, Scripting Guy...
Summary: Guest blogger, Bill Stewart, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find administrators.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Hello everyone. It is the weekend, and guest blogger, Bill Stewart is going to share his time and knowledge today. Bill is a scripting guru and a moderator for the Official Scripting Guys Forum...
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Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover the membership of local groups.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been told I need to check the membership of local groups on all my servers. How can I do that?
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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the members of critical groups.
(image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to track who is a member of my Domain Admins group?
(image) Use Get-ADGroupMember, and add as many groups as you want to the list by using the SamAccountName for the groups:
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Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover Active Directory groups that have no members.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been told I need to audit our Active Directory to discover any empty groups. How can I do that?
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