Tag Archives: AD

Powershell to email Windows users when their AD password is soon to expire

Posted by dave on January 15, 2013 No comments

As with most companys, the most frequent support questions are to do with users passwords. We have a lot of remote users that don’t actually login to the system and as passwords are set to expire quite often so they quite frequently find that their password …

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Windows Powershell Script to disable inactive AD user accounts

Posted by dave on January 15, 2013 5 comments

As part of my compliant I need to keep tabs on inactive user account. The comapny is only small right now and so easy to monitor, but as I like automating things, this fantastic script from vNucleus provides an excellent solution. I’ve …

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Inserting User Photos into AD and User Tiles with Powershell

Posted by dave on October 10, 2012 2 comments

I while back I wrote about importing images into AD with vbscript. I’ve recently been looking into doing a similar thing but found its now possible with powershell. On server 2008 its pretty simple, I created a user photo directory and placed …

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Forcing Active Directory Photos with Lync 2010

Posted by dave on December 7, 2010 4 comments

With Lync 2010 setup (all be it very basic right now) it was time to take control. I started exploring what was possible via various policys for the clients. One of the features allows users to choose their own profile …

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Script to import user photos into Active Directory

Posted by dave on December 7, 2010 2 comments

After recently installing Lync 2010, I soon realised that I should probably have already imported user photos into Active Directory, seeing as Outlook 2010 also supports user thumbnails and it would be a nice little feature to add in. I …

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Forcing the removal of active directory from a domain controller

Posted by dave on December 2, 2010 No comments

You can force the removal of AD from a machine by running: dcpromo /forceremoval It’s not the best way to do it of course, but if all else fails you can run this.

Missing and Inaccurate DomainDnsZones and ForestDnsZones in AD

Posted by dave on November 30, 2010 No comments

I was doing a bit of an AD spring clean today and came across a few errors which had me stumped for a little while. The short of the story is, when running DCDIAG, I was getting a couple of …

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You do not have sufficient privileges to delete ‘OU’, or this object is protected from accidental deletion

Posted by dave on July 26, 2010 9 comments

I got this error when trying to delete a ‘test’ OU called ‘x’ from AD the other day: “You do not have sufficient privileges to delete ‘OU’, or this object is protected from accidental deletion” The fix is quite simple, …

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