Active Directory provides several methods for determining when a user has logged on to the domain. The time of a user’s last successful authentication in Active Directory can be retrieved from…| Windows OS Hub
In this article, we’ll look at how to create new users in an Active Directory domain. You can create new user accounts in your domain using the graphical MMC snap-ins (…| Windows OS Hub
The task of searching for objects in Active Directory (users, groups, or computers) by name using some pattern, regular expression, or wildcard is not as obvious as it seems. The…| Windows OS Hub
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC or DSA.msc) is one of the most commonly used tools for managing objects in an Active Directory domain. You can install ADUC on both…| Windows OS Hub
Quite often when creating new Organizational Units (OUs), an Active Directory administrator has to create a structure of nested containers inside a new OU. For example, when a company opens…| Windows OS Hub
Quite an often task of an Active Directory administrator is to make a list of disabled or inactive user and/or computer accounts. You can use both saved LDAP queries in…| Windows OS Hub
You can use the Get-ADComputer PowerShell cmdlet to get various information about computer account objects (servers and workstations) in an Active Directory domain. This is one of the most useful…| Windows OS Hub
You can use the Export-CSV cmdlet in PowerShell to export data arrays to CSV files. In this article, we will show you how to export data to a CSV file…| Windows OS Hub
The Saved Queries in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) MMC console allow you to create complex LDAP filters to select Active Directory objects. These queries can be saved, edited,…| Windows OS Hub
Domain users can change their password either via the Windows Security menu after logging in, or directly from the Windows login screen if their password has expired. If a user…| Windows OS Hub
You can access the data in an Excel file directly from within PowerShell. Although PowerShell has built-in cmdlets for importing (Import-CSV) and exporting (Export-CSV) tabular data from/to CSV files, the…| Windows OS Hub
Every Windows system administrator should be able to use not only graphical AD snap-ins (usually it is ADUC, Active Directory Users and Computers), but also PowerShell cmdlets to perform everyday…| Windows OS Hub
The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) allow you to remotely manage roles and features on Windows Server hosts from a Windows workstation. RSAT includes graphical MMC snap-ins, command line tools,…| Windows OS Hub
Active Directory user accounts have a special thumbnailPhoto attribute that can be used to store a user’s photo. These photos can be displayed as user avatars in apps such as…| Windows OS Hub
UserAccountControl is one of the most important attributes of the user and computer objects in Active Directory. This attribute determines the state of the account in the AD domain: whether…| Windows OS Hub
In this article, we’ll look at what UPN (UserPrincipalName) suffixes in Active Directory are, how to add alternative suffixes in an AD forest and change UPN suffixes of Active Directory…| Windows OS Hub
The Active Directory Attribute Editor is a built-in graphical tool to manage the properties of AD objects (users, computers, groups). It is the Attribute Editor where you can view and…| Windows OS Hub
In this article we will look at how to find out the date a user was created in Active Directory; how to use PowerShell to get information from the domain…| Windows OS Hub
In this article, we’ll look at how to delegate administrative permissions in the Active Directory domain. Delegation allows you to grant the permissions to perform some AD management tasks to…| Windows OS Hub
The Out-GridView cmdlet allows displaying data as an interactive graphical table that can be filtered or sorted based on different criteria. You can use the Out-Gridview cmdlet in scripts where…| Windows OS Hub
The Set-ADUser cmdlet allows to modify user properties (attributes) in Active Directory using PowerShell. Traditionally, a graphic MMC snap-in dsa.msc (Active Directory Users and Computers, ADUC) is used to edit…| Windows OS Hub
The password policy in an Active Directory domain specifies basic security requirements for user account passwords, such as password complexity, length, frequency of password changes, and so on. A strong…| Windows OS Hub
Although Microsoft has removed the requirement to periodically change user passwords from its security baselines, most on-premises Active Directory domains have a policy that specifies the maximum age of a…| Windows OS Hub