To check Active directory the replication for multiple Domain Controllers Normally repadmin /showreps command has been used to get the replication status for an particular Domain Controller, let say I want to check the Active directory the replication for multiple Domain Controllers, you can use the below command for /f %a in (list.txt) do repadmin… Read More »
In any environment if the employee leaves the company you have to disable the user account in active directory, all the disabled users are still there in the Distribution list and security groups and have to remove the disabled user account manually If you want to know all the disabled users from the active directory… Read More »
Group SID Some time we require a SID for the group in active directory, using the simple inbuilt windows command we can get the group SID You can use the below command to find the group SID Group SID (Group to SID) Groupname: sales_executes(Pre-Win2k Name) Syntax: dsquery group -name “groupname” | dsget group -sid Example:… Read More »
Some time we require a SID for the user account in active directory, using the simple inbuilt windows command we can get the User to SID You can use the below command to find the User to SID User to SID (Username to SID) Username: Johnson (Pre-Win2k Name) Syntax: dsquery user -name “username” | dsget… Read More »
How do I synchronize/Force AD replication between two domain controllers in a Domain, normal AD replication is scheduled however sometimes we require to synchronize manually There are many ways to do this we will see one by one Also Read: Force DFS Replication/Force DFSR Members to Replicate on windows server 2008 and 2012 Force active directory… Read More »
Check the DNS zone status from the list of servers If you are using the windows DNS server and it’s not AD integrated then it’s a primary and secondary concept, in this zone will not be replicated automatically you have to create manually an each server, if you want to check the zone status on… Read More »
Check the list of Users Group Membership List I have used “for” command to read the input file (list.txt) and execute the “net user” command for each user and store the result in output.txt file For /f %a in (list.txt) do net user %a /dom >> output.txt Note: run this command from where the input… Read More »
Some of the Basic commands, windows admin’s should know Basic commands View Last Reboot Time net statistics server | more Run a program as another user runas /user:domainusername appnameex: runas /user:jeffk cmd.exe Remote Desktop into Console of specific computer Mstsc /v:computername /consoleEx: mstsc /v:deserver /console Map a network Drive Net use drivename: \servershareNet use z:… Read More »
Command to add members of one group to the other group (Group migration) If you want to add all the members from group1 to the group2 user the below command syntex: dsget group “Source group DN” -members | dsmod group “Destination group DN” -addmbr Example: dsget group “CN=Group1,OU=Test,DC=test,DC=com” -members | dsmod group “CN=Group2,OU=Test,DC=Test,DC=com” -addmbr Check… Read More »
Members from Nested Group To display the list of members, recursively expanded In the below command, you can extract the group membership details, if you have a group that member of this group then this command will extract all the members including the nested groups(group with in the group) So you will get all the… Read More »
