Active Directory

As an alternative to his first article, Jeff Hicks shows how you can whip up a PowerShell script to find disabled and inactive Active Directory user accounts with PowerShell.

In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us a way to find disabled or inactive user accounts in Active Directory with the help of the Search-ADAccount cmdlet.

Quest Software, now a part of Dell, has provided free cmdlets for Windows PowerShell that helps you find disabled and inactive Active Directory users accounts.

Russell Smith shares easy steps for raising Active Directory domain and forest functional levels with Windows PowerShell.

Russell Smith shows us how to determine which Group Policy settings are actually being applied to devices using the Group Policy Results Wizard.

Russell Smith shows us how to create, load and save starter Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in Active Directory.

Russell Smith gives us a run-down of updates to Microsoft Azure Active Directory, the Windows Store, and new mobile device management features that will be baked into Windows 10.

Learn how to create new Active Directory users in bulk with Excel and PowerShell in Russell Smith’s latest article.

Learn how to audit Active Directory for accounts that have passwords set to never expire in this step-by-step tutorial by Russell Smith.

In this how-to article, Russell Smith shows us how to use PowerShell to view, transfer and seize Active Directory FSMO roles.