Tag Archives: Microsoft Windows

Mass update of Active Directory using PowerShell

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Dan O'Neill

PowerShell is a very handy scripting language if you need to play around with Microsoft technologies. It’s gotten me out of more than one difficult situation. The thing that comes up most at the minute for me is updating AD or Active Directory en masse. Continue reading →

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Hidden traverse folder permissions

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Dan O'Neill

Recently, I found users bypassing the top level NTFS security permissions on a folder via a nice piece of group policy that I’d never heard of. The previously unknown – to me – Bypass traverse checking policy. Continue reading →

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Search all the computers in your domain

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Dan O'Neill

Sometimes, as part of an IT team, you’ll get a strange request to search every PC in your domain for a particular file, or files containing particular information. Also, you couldn’t just search for a file name as someone might … Continue reading →

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Console switch for mstsc?

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Dan O'Neill

As a Systems Administrator, I do a lot of troubleshooting every day for end-users. I also look after a number of servers and often have to complete very long tasks on these servers. One particular job that I’m working on … Continue reading →

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