• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

danblee.com

Tutorials & Knowledge Base Articles for System Administrators who wear many, many hats.

  • Home
  • About
  • Ask Me
  • DBLHost.com
You are here: Home / Archives for Microsoft Windows / Active Directory

Active Directory

PowerShell script to remove all Active Directory computers in a list

May 16, 2017 by Dan B. Lee Leave a Comment

Scenario You made an awesome list of old computers and now you want to delete these computers using PowerShell for the sake of cleaning up AD. The Script Here you go: Import-Module ActiveDirectory Get-Content C:\scripts\to-delete.txt | % { Get-ADComputer -Filter { Name -eq $_ } } | Remove-ADObject -Recursive -WhatIf Explanation Separate each action by the pipe, that's the little thing that looks like | Get-Content is where you'll grab the information in the text file. Mine was … [Read more...] about PowerShell script to remove all Active Directory computers in a list

Filed Under: Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, PowerShell Tagged With: AD, Cleanup, PowerShell, WhatIf

Enabling Event Log ID 4740 – A User Account Was Locked Out

March 28, 2017 by Dan B. Lee 1 Comment

There are certain really helpful Event Logs that just aren't enabled by default. This KB will show you how to enable the Event Log ID 4740, which will really help with proactively managing accounts that belong to users who are having trouble with their passwords, getting locked out while trying to connect to a resource remotely, or an account just getting maliciously hammered and locked out because your policies in place are stopping them. You have Password Policies in place to lock out users … [Read more...] about Enabling Event Log ID 4740 – A User Account Was Locked Out

Filed Under: Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 Tagged With: Auditing, Event Logs, GPO, Group Policy, Security

How to apply Group Policy Templates via ADMX Files

December 21, 2016 by Dan B. Lee Leave a Comment

Here's a quick tutorial that you can reference when wanting to apply new Group Policy Templates. What are Group Policy Templates? Not everything you can do in Group Policy inherently exists. New apps and new policies come out all the time. Since not every business needs a bloated version of Group Policy with a ton of rules and settings, you can customize what you want by adding or removing group policy related settings. Software engineers will develop a Group Policy Template for their … [Read more...] about How to apply Group Policy Templates via ADMX Files

Filed Under: Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, Uncategorized Tagged With: GPO, Group Policy

Exchange 2013: Shared Room Calendar Setup

December 5, 2013 by Dan B. Lee Leave a Comment

Note: Some of these commands are specific to CU1 in Exchange 2013. Please make sure you have updated to CU1 before continuing: There are few things an administrator wants to take care of right when they begin to create shared room calendars. Here's my workflow for setting up Calendars in Exchange 2013. You'll see that some of the settings aren't different from Outlook 2010. Create the Distribution Group and assign it the role of Room List Add Calendar (Mailbox) to Room List Give Admin … [Read more...] about Exchange 2013: Shared Room Calendar Setup

Filed Under: Active Directory, Exchange 2013, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, PowerShell, Windows Server Tagged With: Active Directory, ECP, Exchange, Exchange Management, Permissions, PowerShell

Primary Sidebar

Categories

  • Active Directory
    • Group Policy
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Browsers
    • Chrome
  • Cloud Based Technology
    • Citrix XenApp
  • ConnectWise
    • LabTech
  • Dell
  • Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
  • iPhone
  • Linux
    • CentOS
    • OpenVPN
    • SaltStack
    • Ubuntu
  • Microsoft Office
    • Lync
    • Microsoft Excel
    • Microsoft Outlook
    • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Windows
    • Active Directory
    • PowerShell
    • Windows 7
    • Windows 8 Preview & Release
  • Networks
  • News
  • Off Topic
  • Office 365
  • Peripherals
    • Monitors
  • Printers
    • Local Printers
    • Network Printers
  • Programming
    • Python
  • Riverbed
  • Security
  • Sharepoint
  • Social Media
  • Splunk
  • Storage
  • Switching & Routing
    • Cisco
    • Fortinet
  • Technology Culture
    • Opinion
  • Uncategorized
  • Virtualization
    • VEEAM
    • VMware
  • WAMP
  • Web Hosting
    • WHMCS
  • Website Design
  • Windows Server
    • Exchange 2003
    • Exchange 2010
    • Exchange 2013
    • Microsoft SQL
    • Windows Server 2003
    • Windows Server 2008 R2
    • Windows Server 2012
  • WordPress

Footer

Recent Activity

  • pings on Xerox Phaser 3635MFP Default Admin Username and Password
  • Xerox Phaser 3635MFP Default Admin Username and Password — danblee.com on About Dan B. Lee
  • Estudio Login | LOGINEGG on Toshiba E-Studio Default Administrator Username and Password
  • Estudio Login | LOGINSPENT on Toshiba E-Studio Default Administrator Username and Password
  • Estudio Login | CHARTLOGIN on Toshiba E-Studio Default Administrator Username and Password

Dan Lee

Dan B. Lee works at SyApps, LLC., a Managed Hosting Solutions Firm, as a Senior Network Engineer. Dan has a decade of IT experience and specializes in a number of different disciplines including Virtualization, Web Site Hosting and Design, Network Security, Data Center Architecture, Local and Remote Server Hosting, and Backup & DRS Solutions. Read More…

Links

  • Home
  • About Dan B. Lee
  • Ask Me
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2021 · Genesis Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in