Category Archives: Active Directory

Any admin knows that there are always computer and user accounts in AD that become stale and unused. It’s good practice to remove these old accounts from AD. Here’s how I do it. From any Domain Controller, open a command prompt and try the following. dsquery computer -inactive 8 -limit… Continue reading →

My business closed one of their remote branches recently. The ex-employees took their time packing and sending the hardware back to our HQ. The Domain Controller was offline for more than a month. When we finally got it back, I recreated the routing and plugged the server back in so… Continue reading →

This is a quick and easy way to get a Tabbed list of Usernames and emails from a Windows Domain while on the domain controller. By using the dsget and dsquery commands, we can list users and then send the output to a file. dsquery user cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com -name * -limit… Continue reading →