PowerShell - Report Expiring User accounts

In the video game industry it is common practice to hire consultants to take care of the Quality Assurance, which consists of a means of the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure quality. Those people are most likely Testers and usually spend most of their day testing games in development to find bugs.

The problem is, once in a while managers forget to update the expiration dates of their Consultant/External Partners even if they got a couple of reminders, and since we have some automation process taking care of the off-boarding (thanks to PowerShell! ;-)...it is becoming fun when those guys can't connect to their accounts on Monday morning...and they lost all their access.


So I wrote a tiny script to report any expiring user accounts and send it to the IT department every Monday morning, just to give us a heads up.

Report Example

[UPDATE] PowerShell - Monitor and Report Active Directory Group Membership Change

UPDATE: The most recent update is available on Github

I found some time to update the script "Monitor Active Directory Membership changes". This is the version 1.6.

To summarize, this script allow you to monitor Active Directory groups membership changes. The script will send your a report via email only when a change occur. I explained in details in my last post how the script work.


So what are the main changes in this version ?

• SearchRoot you can now specify the Organization Unit path(s) where all your groups are located, the script will take care of the rest and watch them all. You also have the option to filter using the parameters SearchScope, GroupType, GroupScope.
• File you can now specify one or multiple files where the list of groups is saved. Distinguished Names, SID, GUID, GroupName, Domain\GroupName are accepted.

Previous post related to this script:
[2013/10] PowerShell - Monitor and Report Active Directory Group Membership Change
[2012/03] Powershell - Monitor Active Directory Groups membership change

Thank you: I want to thank those who sent me suggestions via email or posts comments, I'm very happy to see that this script is helping a lot of my fellow sysadmins.

PowerShell - Report the AD Missing Subnets from the NETLOGON.log

Today I will share with you a script that report the Missing Subnets detected in the NetLogon file(s) of your Active Directory Domain Controller(s).

Update: See my Github repository for the most recent version

Missing Subnets

When a computer is joined to a domain It knows for sure of which AD domain it is a member. However once the computer is joined to the domain, It may or may not know which AD site it belongs to. Even if it thinks it knows the AD site, it may not even be in the correct AD site (e.g. because it was moved, AD site was renamed, Subnet not declared, Subnet was removed from a site and add to another...etc.).

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.

Powershell - Exchange Environment Report

Exchange Environment Report
A quick post on Exchange fellow Steve Goodman who created a nice PowerShell script which generates a basic HTML report on your Exchange environment. When required, you can also e-mail the report, which is nice if you want to schedule the script to run on a daily basis for example.

The script is provided as-is so you can tailor it to your needs. It’s still work in progress, so if you got any requests just send Steve a message.
You can find the post and script here.