Wise are the administrators who create Active Directory (AD) objects and apply GPOs to them all at once. Even wiser are the administrators who achieve this without using the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
As an administrator, you have to …
Empowering your IT help desk for Active Directory management
Imagine how efficient your help desk would be if it were empowered to deal with IT issues and manage Active Directory (AD) users from a single console!
This vision is the central idea that inspired the product developers at the …
Automatically disable users who have never logged in
Most organizations use the same password for each newly created user, so it’s essential to disable — or better, delete — all users who have never logged in. Ideally, you want to disable or delete those users on a daily …
Placing Google users into Active Directory with ease
Many organizations that use Active Directory also use Google for applications and communications. Google has a database for user accounts, which need to be created using the Google admin console or some other tool. The process of creating Google user …
Dynamic group membership based on user properties
When a group fails to contain the correct members, access to resources or to a network application could fail. So, ensuring that group membership is correct can go a long way in reducing calls about failures to access resources. One …
Automating user account membership in another domain
This content might be a bit of a refresher for some, but it is important to always think out of the box when dealing with Active Directory and automation. What a start, right?
Here is the question posed: “How do …
Updating Active Directory users in bulk
Do you have user accounts in Active Directory that have incorrect attribute configurations? For example, did someone add the job role to the display name for every user that is in the IT department? This is common for some or …
Managing the creation of new Active Directory user accounts with duplicate usernames
I keep getting questions about how to handle duplicate usernames during new Active Directory user accounts. Even as organizations are moving to the cloud, cleaning up AD, and merging with other companies, duplicate usernames is a hot topic.
Now, if …
Active Directory: On-the-fly bulk user management
Often, some or all users in a group need the same attribute updated for a project or some other requirement. But this can be a tricky task, especially when it comes to finding the group and then having to manually …