PowerShell: Recursion And Finding Loops In A Hierarchy With Active Directory Example

Recently, a friend of mine asked me about the best way to find loops in a hierarchy, specifically with Active Directory groups that may be nested (either by design or by mistake) thereby causing loops and this recursion based solution was my recommended answer for him. The Problem: Here is the example he gave me: … Continue reading PowerShell: Recursion And Finding Loops In A Hierarchy With Active Directory Example

PowerShell & Active Directory: Quickly Find The Manager For A Bunch Of Users

Today, I received a request to find the manager for a whole bunch of users. This was a list of names (not UserId's) in a Excel worksheet. It is not actually that complex to do it Locate the AD user based on the name Check the Manager property Lookup AD again for Manager to get … Continue reading PowerShell & Active Directory: Quickly Find The Manager For A Bunch Of Users

PowerShell: Add, Remove, Copy And Move Users To Another AD Group Conditionally

Be sure to read the related blog post first before proceeding! PowerShell: Lookup Active Directory Accounts Flexibly/Exhaustively For A List Of First/Middle/Last Names If you are an AD admin, you are very likely a pro at managing AD group membership but for mere mortals, this can be a tedious task. Please read on to find out … Continue reading PowerShell: Add, Remove, Copy And Move Users To Another AD Group Conditionally

PowerShell: Lookup Active Directory Accounts Flexibly/Exhaustively For A List Of First/Middle/Last Names

Before we begin, if you are running Windows 7 or above and if you do not have the PowerShell Active Directory module installed, please do so first by downloading and installing “Remote Server Administration Tools”. I personally cannot live without this module. Please be sure to check out my related blog post which uses the function described … Continue reading PowerShell: Lookup Active Directory Accounts Flexibly/Exhaustively For A List Of First/Middle/Last Names

SQL Server: Curse Of Linked Server Security And The Fix: Pass-through Authentication

A great and related reference to what we will discuss in this blog post is this one: https://thesqldude.com/2011/12/30/how-to-sql-server-bulk-insert-with-constrained-delegation-access-is-denied/ Linked Servers in a sentence or two: Linked servers in SQL Server are connection definitions from one data source to another (or same instance) so that queries can be written joining tables spanning the multiple data sources. Although … Continue reading SQL Server: Curse Of Linked Server Security And The Fix: Pass-through Authentication