NOTE: This is the first is a series of articles I am writing as my organization moves from using IBM Domino to Office 365. For those who are moving from using IBM Domino as their email and directory, there are a number of things that one needs to think about for their Active Directory environment. … [Read more…]
As we were preparing everything for these changes, we ran across numerous references to custom IBM schema fields that were being used by the password sync process (when using LDAP as the store), but really very little detail about what the schema change did and how it was used. I don’t like to apply schema … [Read more…]
A number of years ago I posted some vbscript for auto disabling inactive users. My system before was a two part system where I found the inactive users, wrote them to a text file and then my proxy system handled them. Recently, I have been reviewing all of my scripts and moving them over to … [Read more…]
I have been working for awhile now to move a lot of my code over to PowerShell. I have found it to be very efficient and easy to read (just took a bit of a mentality change to switch over from VBScript). In our environment, I have always found it much more reliable to send … [Read more…]
So, one of the things I have always known is that it is important to have a test environment prior to making changes in your normal production domain/forest. One of the challenges I have always seen with this is how to create a test environment that closely matches what you have in production. Recently, I … [Read more…]
One of the challenges in Active Directory is making sure that regular cleanup occurs in AD looking for inactive users and computers. In the past, for me, this has been an entirely manual process. It meant that I would take time once a quarter to generate reports, review the large number of users/computers and disable … [Read more…]
I recently needed to get IP addresses for a number of host names. In trying to do this, I found that it was very difficult to find a script that would do what I needed. So, after much searching and work, here is the script that I have come up with. Hope this helps someone. … [Read more…]
Recently, I have found myself having to do some scripting with printers (among other things). As I was researching the best way to do this, I ran across some vbs scripts that Microsoft includes with at least Server 2003 (and it looks like 2008, as well). Here are some of the scripts I found: prncnfg.vbs … [Read more…]
Sometimes, it is a challenge to know what groups a user actually is in. In particular, this includes not just direct membership groups, but also indirect membership (nested groups). You may have added a user to a group, but aren’t sure if the user is actuallly getting the security token for that group when they … [Read more…]
Sorry I haven’t posted anything lately. I have been busy getting ready to do a number of domain migrations over the next couple of months. This has been a major project that I have been involved with at work. We have a total of 14 AD domains, and I am responsible for migrating 13 child … [Read more…]