SO you’ve been tasked with trying to find out how many user objects exist i your domain, but the OU structure is so disorganised, you don’t know where to start?
When you run scripts to find Active Directory user accounts that haven’t been used in a while, one thing the standard approach misses is accounts that have never been used.
Finding Active Directory user accounts that have never been used is a little tricky, in that the lastlogontimestamp is NULL although the attribute type is a large integer. Querying this in PowerShell requires a back-to-front approach as we can’t query if the value is NULL, we have to query if the value is not ‘not-NULL’…. i.e. lastlogontimestamp -like “*”
I have a need from time to time to find actively used computer objects in the domain that are running a particular operating system. Most often it is to find unsupported operating systems like XP, Server 2003 or even OSX 10.8 and below. The script looks a lot like:
With all the new advanced features appearing in the latest vendor hardware, you may be finding issues with your image deployments when it comes to installing device drivers.
Late last year Microsoft released version 1.11 of the Kernel Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) which is the backbone of many newer device drivers today. If you have SOE images built prior to this release you have an earlier KMDF embedded in the image, and if you use driverless images you’ll probably find many devices are not functioning at the end of your imaging process. The fix is to either: Continue reading Windows 7 Kernel Mode Driver Framework (KMDF)→
Some of you might have seen this error after upgrading your DNN from v6 to v7. It’s a bit scarey because it means that no-one can log into your DNN instance, not even a super user. Troubleshooting must therefore begin on the hosting server. Check out the log files under .Portals_defaultLogs. For me the critical error was: