PowerShell - Monitor and Report Active Directory Group Membership Change

UPDATE 2016/05/03: The most recent update is available on Github

See also the related blogpost: http://www.lazywinadmin.com/2013/11/update-powershell-monitor-and-report.html

Today I will update a post that I published at the beginning of last year : Monitor Active Directory Membership changes. I updated the script to add some of the things I learned during the Scripting Games 2013 back in April/May. The script will also create a nice html report and send it via Email.

Basically, the script will monitor the Active Directory groups that you specify and notify you if a change occurred since the last time it checked.

Blogger - Adding PowerShell code in your blog post

From time to time you might be interested to have your code syntax highlighted or presented with a neat format in your blog posts.

Plain text is boring and it can really mess up the layout of your post. Also It can be very hard to understand some code without some sort of syntax highlighting.





Here are a few methods that I found useful for Blogger: (those can probably be applied to Wordpress and other platforms)

• Method 1: Using Syntax Highlighter from Alex Gorbatchev
• Method 2: Using an Editor to copy the code as HTML language
• Method 3: HTML CSS Rectangle (PowerShell console look a like)
• Method 4: Embedded code using Gist (GitHub)

Scripting Games 2013 - Advanced Event 4 - An Auditing Adventure

This is my solution for the Advanced Event 4 of the Scripting Games 2013.
This event was a bit challenging for me... In the past, I played with Quest Active Directory snap-in to create a bunch of Monitoring tools and some other small automation tasks, but that's about it. (Example Monitor Active Directory Groups membership change).

Let's see how I solved it.