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Script to Change the Drive Letter of all CDROM and DVD Drives

January 4, 2015

This PowerShell script will change the drive letter of all CDROM & DVD Drives found starting from whatever is set as $LastDriveLetter variable, working backwards until it finds an available drive letter. Too many IT Pros leave CDROM/DVD Drives as the drive letter Windows assigns them when first detected, which is typically usually either D: or E:. Then […]

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Custom MDT Wizard For Network Settings

January 4, 2015

Setting a fixed IP Address during the MDT task sequences has always been ugly. It’s an area that I believe needs to be revisited by Microsoft. I don’t like the concept behind the “Apply Network Settings” task action. I don’t find it dynamic enough. In my opinion it’s too cumbersome and involved. The old “NICSettings_Definition_ENU.xml” […]

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Script to Create a Summary Overview and Full Report of all Contact Objects in a Domain

January 2, 2015

This PowerShell script is one of the most comprehensive you will find that provides a thorough overview and full report of all contact objects in a domain. It is the culmination of many Active Directory audit and reviews and therefore contains valuable input from many customers. A lot of thought has been put into the logic […]

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Script to Create an Overview and Full Report of all Group Objects in a Domain

January 2, 2015

This PowerShell script is one of the most comprehensive you will find that provides a thorough overview and full report of all group objects in a domain. It is the culmination of many Active Directory audit and reviews and therefore contains valuable input from many customers. A lot of thought has been put into the logic within […]

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Script to Create an Active Directory Schema Update Report

June 22, 2014

This PowerShell script was written by the awesome Ashley McGlone (AKA Goatee PFE) and published to the TechNet Script Center. It was also blogged on the Scriting Guy TechNet site. However, it did need some updates to keep up with the newer schema updates as well as adding the SCCM (ConfigMgr) versions. As Ashley has […]

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Script to Create an Overview of all Computer Objects in a Domain

June 22, 2014

This PowerShell script will provide an overview and count of all computer objects in a domain based on Operating System and Service Pack. It helps an organisation to understand the number of stale and active computers against the different types of operating systems deployed in their environment. Computer objects are filtered into 4 categories: Windows Servers […]

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Script to Create a Report of Members of Privileged Groups

June 9, 2014

This PowerShell script will create a report of users that are members of the following privileged groups: Enterprise Admins Schema Admins Domain Admins Cert Publishers Administrators Account Operators Server Operators Backup Operators Print Operators This is the default list of privileged groups I’ve set, but you can adjust the privileged groups directly within the getForestPrivGroups function if needed. […]

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Script to Create, Import and Export Group Policy WMI Filters

June 9, 2014

This PowerShell script will Create, Import and Export Group Policy WMI Filters. I wrote this script to cover a number of different scenarios: To create a default set of GPO WMI Filters for new builds. To document existing WMI filters for health checks and audits. To provide a mechanism to migrate WMI filters between Dev, […]

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Script to Create a Report on the Primary Groups (primaryGroupID) in Use

May 27, 2014

This PowerShell script will enumerate all user accounts in a Domain and report on the primary groups (primaryGroupID) in use. It will also total up the number of enabled and disabled user accounts that each group is applied to. The output of this script helps with remediation tasks and perhaps even a redesign to implement some standards for the […]

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Script to Generate a Group Policy Object (GPO) Version Report

May 23, 2014

Is there a version match between your Group Policy Object (GPO) containers and templates? This PowerShell script will check that the version of each GPO is consistent in the Active Directory Group Policy Container (GPC) and on each Domain Controller in the Group Policy Template (GPT). All Windows Operating Systems (since Windows 2000) will apply the GPO […]

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