Monthly Archives: November 2012

Powershell search for Active Directory objects excluding an OU

If you’re familiar with LDAP searches you will probably at some point have been frustrated at the inability to exclude objects in a specific Organisational Unit, i.e “Give me all User objects in the domain, except those in the Sales OU”.   To workaround the problem you typically need to do some scripting. There are several… Read More: Powershell search for Active Directory objects excluding an OU »

Replacing legacy Domain Controller Certificates

Something you may have noticed in your journey on the road to AD enlightenment is that if you deploy a new Microsoft Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA) and publish the default templates, your Domain Controllers will automatically enroll for a certificate.  The template used is the DomainController V1 certificate, which has been around since Windows 2000… Read More: Replacing legacy Domain Controller Certificates »