by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 10, 2008 | AD
Well, Active Directory MVP and well-known speaker Guido Grillenmeier from HP has taken my AD tombstone reanimation cmdlets and fashioned a very cool PowerShell script that uses the cmdlets and the new AD snapshot mounting feature in Server 2008 to not only restore...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 3, 2008 | PowerShell
Well, despite the morbid title, this is not about dead things. Well, not quite. And amazingly its not about Group Policy either. In my ever increasing thirst for PowerShell knowledge, I thought I would experiment a bit with some Active Directory-based...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 26, 2008 | AD
NetPro is hosting their annual Directory Experts Conference next week in Chicago. If you haven’t been to this show, its a great place to mean all the giant brains in the Active Directory world and learn some cool things about AD and related technologies. If you...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 5, 2007 | General Stuff
Someone emailed a question to the GPOGUY GPTalk mailing list today that I thought was worth chatting about. The question pertained to disappearing Group Policy links. Namely, he had a situation where links to GPOs would periodically disappear from Active...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 20, 2007 | AD
As you may have heard, Microsoft is finally providing the ability to have fine-grained password policies within a single AD domain. That means you can now have different password policies for different user groups within AD. This feature is described nicely in Jorge...