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David Szpunar

Add user principal name suffixes: Active Directory - 0 views

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    Adding a User Principal Name, or UPN, to Active Directory lets you match user logon names to email addresses, for example, among other things. This page describes how to add a UPN to Active Directory, so you can assign the alternate name to a user in Active Directory Users and Computers.
David Szpunar

How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion... - 0 views

  • Procedure 1: Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later service packs only
  • Type select operation target and press ENTER.
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      This selects the server name that you want to delete/cleanup.
  • Type connect to server servername,
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      This connects to an existing, active Domain Controller, where the deletion will be performed.
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    This article describes how to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion, using the command line (ntdsutil).
Jeremie Kilgore

JIJI Technologies - 0 views

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    Active Directory based Systems Management and Security Solutions Provider
David Szpunar

HOW TO: Obtain correct syntax for Base DN, Bind DN or Attributes with LDAP for Director... - 0 views

  • dsquery user dc=example,dc=com,-name user1*
  • dsquery user dc=example,dc=com -name "user1"
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    This provides the search syntax for using the dsquery command on a Domain Controller to find the correct Active Directory DN for a user for use in LDAP authentication scenarios. For example: dsquery user dc=example,dc=com -name user1* which outputs: "CN=user1,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com"
David Szpunar

NTPWEdit 0.3 - GUI version of NTpasswd (essentially) - 1 views

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    NTPWEdit is a password editor for Windows NT based systems (like Windows 2000, XP and Vista), it can change or remove passwords for local system accounts. This program can NOT decrypt passwords or change domain and Active Directory passwords. This is essentially NTpasswd with a Windows GUI.
David Szpunar

Finding Duplicate SMTP Addresses - 0 views

  • Click the Advanced tab and in the Enter LDAP query: field, enter the following text: proxyaddresses=smtp:exchange_2007@neilhobson.com.
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      Very handy search to be aware of, to locate the user who is assigned a particular alias email address in Active Directory!
David Szpunar

How to view and transfer FSMO roles in Windows Server 2003 (GUI) - 0 views

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    This article describes how to transfer Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles (also known as operations master roles) by using the Active Directory snap-in tools in Microsoft Management Console (MMC) in Windows Server 2003 (using the GUI).
David Szpunar

Using Ntdsutil.exe to transfer or seize FSMO roles to a domain controller - 0 views

  • An administrator gracefully demotes a role-holding domain controller by using the Active Directory Installation Wizard. This wizard reassigns any locally-held roles to an existing domain controller in the forest. Demotions that are performed by using the dcpromo /forceremoval command leave FSMO roles in an invalid state until they are reassigned by an administrator.
  • ntdsutil /metadata cleanup
  • To transfer the FSMO roles by using the Ntdsutil utility, follow these steps:
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  • To seize the FSMO roles by using the Ntdsutil utility, follow these steps:
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    This article describes how to use the Ntdsutil.exe utility to transfer or to seize Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles (using the command line).
David Szpunar

Ad Tidy - 4sysops (clean out old accounts in Active Directory) - 0 views

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    "AD Tidy is a completely free tool that I created to help other IT Pros out. It can be used to identify when user/computer accounts last logged on to the network and can tidy up these accounts in various different ways."
David Szpunar

Joeware Free Tools - for Windows and Active Directory and Servers - 0 views

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    "The joeware utilities... Saving administrators around the world time and frustration for over nine years..."
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