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Summary: A Windows PowerShell Carol in which Ebenezer Script learns how to use PowerShell to manage users in Active Directory.   Hey, Scripting Guy! Can you tell me if Ebenezer Script will learn how to work with Active Directory users from within Windows PowerShell? -- JC   Hello JC, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is almost ...

  Summary: Guest Blogger Oliver Lipkau shows us how to create exact copies of Active Directory security groups in a new forest.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. We have a guest blogger today: Oliver Lipkau. Here is Oliver’s scripting biography. I have been scripting for more than 10 years. I started with batch at the age o...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell and the Active Directory cmdlets to update user objects in Active Directory.   Hey, Scripting Guy! Watching you write a custom function to search Active Directory is about as much fun as watching paint dry. One reason we upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2 was to gain access to the Active Directory...

  Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search Microsoft Active Directory for users that have missing values, and automatically add default values.   Hey, Scripting Guy! We have several network administrators where I work. Unfortunately, all of them have complete rights to Active Directory. This means that any one of the admin...

  Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell to translate a user's SID to an Active Directory Domain Services account name.   Hey, Scripting Guy! It seems that whenever I search for Windows PowerShell scripts to translate a user name into a SID, all I can find is a script that uses WMI. WMI is too slow ...