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Export list of enabled users or group members of AD using PowerShell
A couple of handy PowerShell commands for exporting info from your AD: All enabled users Get-ADUser -Filter ‘Enabled -eq $true’ -Properties DisplayName, SamAccountName | Select-Object Name, DisplayName, SamAccountName | Export-Csv -Path “C:\temp\ActiveUsers.csv”…
Reduce size of large WinSxS folder
A (Windows 2016) server with a perfectly reasonable 200GB Windows partition was reporting as low on free disk space. Investigation showed that the \Windows\WinSxS folder contained over 80GB of data… Laughably, Microsoft claim that the WinSxS folder is reduced in…
Remote Desktop Services user logged on with temporary profile
A user logging on to a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) server was shown a dialogue soon after logon indicating that they are using a temporary profile and any changes would be lost when logging out. A temporary profile can be created when Windows cannot load the user’s…
FullTrustNotifier.exe – System Error – VCRUNTIME140.dll and MSVCP140.dll not found
A Windows 11 machine randomly started popping up with system error dialogue boxes shortly after reboots and during use. The faulting executable was ‘FullTrustNotifier.exe’ and two or three dialogue boxes had to be acknowledged before the issue went away (for a few…
Veeam B&R – “Some backup console’s plug-ins must be updated to the latest version” on every launch
A recently updated Veeam B&R console install then produced a rather annoying pop-up every time it was launched. Clicking Yes in the dialogue allowed the program to run, but seemingly did nothing as it reappeared next time. This appears to have been happening to…
Add custom auto-archive (to in-place mailbox) policy in Microsoft 365
The default auto-archive policy for Exchange Online mailboxes moves messages older than 2 years to the in-place archive mailbox. If you want to adjust the timing, you can login to the Microsoft Purview portal and create your own retention tag and policy and apply it…
Query user contact information in Microsoft 365
A tenant in Microsoft 365 was utilising the contact information fields for users to populate auto-signatures and also generate the Org Explorer view in Outlook. Needing to query this information, and a simple CSV output would suffice for starters, proved to be more…
Add domain account as local administrator on remote computer
To add a domain account to the local Administrators group on a machine that is domain joined, but is remote from the business network (with no VPN) at the time, and with the machine signed in as the domain user that needs to have the additional rights: Gain remote…
Query AD to find last contact time of domain computers
Finding the last ‘logon’ time of a domain computer is not as straightforward as you might think, i.e. there is no column to select in ADU&C. Note that we are looking for the last time the domain-joined machine made contact with the domain controller(s), and not…