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Active Directory Dashboard

The purpose of this project is to show how to use WMI and Grafana to build an Active Directory dashboard. The Python script uses the linux wmic client you can find here The software requirements are the following : a

Change user CN to match the SamAccountName

These scripts change the CN of the users located in the OU “OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=local” with the SamAccountname value. The first script uses the Microsoft Powershell cmdlets and the second one uses the Quest cmdlets. get-aduser -SearchRoot “OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=local” | % { Rename-ADObject

Archive more than one million files located in one folder

Archive more than one million files located in one folder Windows operating systems are not good candidates to host and manage million files located in only folder (no subfolders). If you try to list the content of the folder (using

List user objects and count them

There are several ways to list specific Active Directory objects. I will show you two ways : using the instance of the System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry class or using the powershell cmdlet Get-ADObject $ldapQuery = “(&(objectCategory=user)(objectClass=user))” $de = new-object system.directoryservices.directoryentry $ads = new-object

Active Directory security interesting links

Active Directory security interesting links This is 3 very interesting links/articles about Active Directory and authentication : CredCrack : this is a python script that uses the powershell script Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1. CredCrack is a fast and stealthy credential harvester. It exfiltrates

Move system partitions to another volume on a HP Proliant server

In this tutorial, I will show you how to perform the following steps on your HP Proliant server: create a new volume with hpssacli create the physical volume, volume group and logical group with lvm transfer the system from the

Monitor and graph your Linux Bind servers with Grafana

The purpose of this tutorial is to help you to configure the following components : bind : configure statistics influxdb : time series database collectd-proxy : program written in Go that will act as a gateway between collectd and influxdb

WordPress, apache server status collectd and mod_rewrite

WordPress, apache server status collectd and mod_rewrite If you have configured the apache server-status on your WordPress, you will have, probably like me, troubles to make it work. The problem is related on the mod_rewrite configuration. First, your server-status should

Migrate shared folder configuration to Windows Server 2012

You need to migrate a file server shared folder from a Windows Server 2008 to a Windows Server 2012. Windows Server 2012 now contains Powershell cmdlets to interact with SMB Shared folders, but Windows 2008 not. The purpose of the

Change user Active Directory attributes stored in a CSV file

This script change phone number and mobile phone number attributes for users based on a CSV file with the following template : Lastname;Firstname;Username;MobilePhone;Phone Smith;John;jsmith;+33xxxxxxxxx;+33xxxxxxxxx Doe;John;jdoe;+33xxxxxxxxx;+33xxxxxxxxx If you want to use the second script below (with the Quest cmdlets), just remove