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Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $true} -Properties Name,Manager,LastLogon,DistinguishedName | Select-Object Name,samAccountName,DistinguishedName,@{n='LastLogon';e={[DateTime]::FromFileTime($_.LastLogon).ToString('g')}} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path...

CSV opened in Excel is showing   instead of a space between the DateTime and the period (am / pm) That is because it is being opened in Excel using CP-1252 instead of UTF-8 and thus rendering the NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE incorrectly...

I had 2 Domain controllers that stopped replicating their SYSVOL to each other. These are some of the commands used to understand what is happening and then to get it working again. Learnings Edit your Group Policies on the PDC / Operations Master (see the netdom...

Note: If you are filtering DNS for Proxy & Filter Avoidance or have configured you network to only allow connection to trusted DNS Servers the first two will fail so use the Web Request options linux / wsl DNS Query dig +short myip.opendns.com...

In an Administrative cmd or powershell terminal run # /expires:never sets account to never expire NOT password net user toggenator2 * /add /expires:never # Password never expires wmic UserAccount where Name="toggenator" set PasswordExpires=False # or use powershell...

Today I had to go old school. Problem: Windows XP time 1 hour out. The user changes it to the correct time but it keeps resetting to the wrong time. Cause: Operating System (Windows XP) is so old that it no longer gets Time Zone updates so it had the wrong Daylight...