Active Directory with PowerShell

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Active Directory with PowerShell

By : Pamarthi Venkata Sitaram, YELLAPRAGADA U PADMAVATHI

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Active Directory with PowerShell

5 (1)

By: Pamarthi Venkata Sitaram, YELLAPRAGADA U PADMAVATHI

Overview of this book

Active Directory with PowerShell

Active Directory with PowerShell

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Let's Get Started

Let's Get Started

Ways to automate Active Directory operations

Managing User and Computer Objects

Managing User and Computer Objects

Managing user accounts

Modifying user properties

Deleting user accounts

Managing computer accounts

Deleting computer accounts

Working with Active Directory Groups and Memberships

Working with Active Directory Groups and Memberships

Creating different types of security groups

Searching and modifying group object information

Adding members to a group

Listing members of a security group in Active Directory

Removing members from an AD group

Deleting a security group

Configuring Group Policies

Configuring Group Policies

Installing the Group Policy module

Querying Group Policies

Creating and linking Group Policies

Working with links, enforcements, and order of GPOs

Working with Group Policy permissions

Updating Group Policy and generating Resultant Set of Policy

Removing Group Policy links and objects

Managing Domains, Organizational Units, Sites, and Subnets

Managing Domains, Organizational Units, Sites, and Subnets

Managing domains

Managing Organizational Units

Managing sites and subnets

Advanced AD Operations Using PowerShell

Advanced AD Operations Using PowerShell

Installing a new domain

Adding additional domain controllers

Obtaining an Active Directory replication status

Managing Fine-Grained Password Policies

Transferring FSMO roles

Restoring deleted objects

Demoting domain controllers and removing domains

Managing DFS-N and DFS-R Using PowerShell

Managing DFS-N and DFS-R Using PowerShell

Installing DFS roles

Managing Active Directory DNS Using PowerShell

Managing Active Directory DNS Using PowerShell

Installing and configuring a DNS server

Working with root hints and forwarders

Managing DNS zones

Creating, modifying, and deleting DNS records

Managing DNS Clients

Miscellaneous Scripts and Resources for Further Learning

Miscellaneous Scripts and Resources for Further Learning

Checking whether a user, group, computer, or an OU exists

Getting membership of a user, computer, and group

Resetting the password for multiple user accounts

Bulk creation of user accounts

Getting the password expiry date of user accounts

Finding all the disabled user accounts

Getting all domain controllers and their site names in the forest

Moving objects from one OU to another

Finding inactive computers in Active Directory

Creating groups in bulk

Exporting an AD group member's details to CSV

Finding empty groups in Active Directory

Verifying whether a user is a member of the given group or not

Comparing AD groups' membership

Resources for further learning

Index

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Working with root hints and forwarders

In this section we will focus on how to configure root hints and forwarders for the DNS server that we have just installed. Before proceeding with that, let's learn a bit about root hints and forwarders. They are as follows:

Root hints: Each DNS server is authorized to provide responses to zones hosted on them. But what if the DNS server you are querying is not responsible for the DNS data you are looking for? In such cases, DNS uses the root hint servers to find the authoritative name servers for the domain you are looking for and provides you the results by contacting them. The DNS server should be able to talk to these root hint servers. The default root hint servers are placed on the Internet since your DNS server should have access to these root hints for resolution.
Forwarders: Using root hints for non-authoritative name resolution operations is not always possible. DNS servers in corporate environment may not be allowed to talk to root hint servers...