Up until recently, I was familiar with the idea of client pulling down information from a database. A database requires updates, patching, and maintenance. Usually, I’d be the one doing all that care and feeding, additional to taking proper care[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I came across a situation the other day. In my Azure Tenant, I have a VM, a domain controller that hosts, well… my domain. I only use it for testing, most recently I was doing some SSPR testing. I only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a few different methods to import users into your Azure tenant. In the Azure Active Directory Portal https://aad.portal.azure.com -> Users -> Bulk Operations -> Bulk create Or you can use a little powershell This will focus on the powershell[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is going to be a little different. As per usual, we need to follow our regular set of steps when dealing with a large amount of data that needs validation. Export list of users into CSV format Add new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hostile takeover? All employees of a department being reassigned? We won’t go into ‘how to disable way lots of employees because your upper management said ‘because we told you”. So, we’ll go into changing departments for the entire company. There’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re like me, you built a new AD for testing. And if you’re also like me, you imported a whole bunch of users into your AD. Some of those users likely had passwords that didn’t quite meet the domain[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Need to find all the disabled users in your AD? it’s odd that the built in AD Tools do not have this option. PowerShell to the rescue! All these commands are documented in the Microsoft Get-ADUser cmdlet. I’ve added some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What are the situations you’ll need lots of Dummy AD data? When you want to run some awesomely crafted PowerShell AD scripts, that’s where. I was in a situation a few months ago where I needed replicate a VERY large[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Getting caught up? Part 1 – Creating a simple GUI Part 2 – Adding variables, added functionality Part 3 – (that’s where we are) In this post, I’ll be adding some error checking in the form of a function. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Already seen this part? Check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part3 In part 1, we covered the very basics. A one-line Get-ADUser query, a simple form with one button and output textbox. In this entry, we’ll add more functionality[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Create your first Powershell GUI, Part 1: the Basics with simple tools and built in Windows 10 functionality