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Listing AD Group Members Recursively with Powershell

By On November 18, 2008 · 62 Comments

The Quest Active Directory Cmdlets are very useful in getting AD group members. The only thing I was missing, was a -Recursive parameter. So I created this script.

You feed it AD Group Names as a parameter, and it will return a nice tree view of all members and subgroups and their members and so [...]

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Handy little function: Translate-SID

By On November 11, 2008 · 2 Comments

Ever come across something like this: S-1-5-21-9378569023-29138639125-19468 and wonder what it is? Try feeding it to this handy little function:

function Translate-SID
{
 param([string]$SID)
 $objSID = New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier($SID)
 $objUser = $objSID.Translate([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount])
 Return $objUser.Value
}

Of course, you might feel the need to reverse this process and turn something perfectly [...]

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Powershell Oneliner #5

By On August 15, 2008 · 1 Comment

Why I love Powershell:

Yesterday I needed to create an overview of people, their department name and office location. I wanted to have this list in Excel. But all I had was a textfile with their names. A tedious task to fill in all this information, one might think. Luckily, I know

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Quest can’t keep a secret?

By On April 23, 2008 · 4 Comments

Quest Software provides PowerShell users with the possibility to manage Active Directory quickly and easily through their free Active Directory cmdlets. I love using PowerShell to get the exact information I need, using a single line of code. The following oneliner for instance [...]

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