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distinguishedName

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 Dalle 1 Comment Active Directory, dalle, distinguishedName, PowerShell, Tips & Trix

When working with PowerShell and Active Directory using ADSI we often need the distinguishedName. It can be found with PowerShell

Active Directory PowerShell

New-LDAPComputersFromCSV

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 Dalle 0 Comment Active Directory, dalle, New-LDAPComputer, PowerShell, Scripts

In my post about New-LDAPComputersFromFile I showed how to use the function New-LDAPComputer with a simple text file. Now I will use the same

Active Directory PowerShell

Real Fake Names

March 22, 2016March 23, 2016 Dalle 0 Comment Active Directory, dalle, Get-FirstName, Get-SurName, Import-FirstNames, Import-SurNames, PowerShell

In articles some years ago, 2009 and 2012 I wrote two functions to create real names to use with creating

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Visual Studio Code

March 15, 2016March 23, 2016 Dalle 0 Comment dalle, PowerShell, Tools, Visual Studio Code

One of my new favorite PowerShell editors is Visual Studio Code. But out of the box I miss some stuff

Active Directory PowerShell

New-LDAPComputersFromFile

March 14, 2016March 23, 2016 Dalle 0 Comment Active Directory, dalle, PowerShell

Yesterday I posted my PowerShell function New-LDAPComputer. Today I will post a simple script that uses that function and reads

Active Directory PowerShell

New-LDAPComputer

March 13, 2016March 23, 2016 Dalle 0 Comment Active Directory, dalle, function, PowerShell

New-LDAPComputer is my PowerShell function for creating a basic Active Directory computer account without using any 3:rd party modules.

Function New-LDAPComputer
{
<#
	.SYNOPSIS
		Creates an Active Directory computer object
	
	.DESCRIPTION
		Creates an Active Directory computer object using LDAP.
        The computer will be enabled. Created with just the basic stuff.
	
    .PARAMETER ComputerName
		The name of the computer
        
    .PARAMETER SAMAccountName
		The SAMAccount name
        
    .PARAMETER OUPath
        The distinguishedName of the OU where the computer should be created in.
        
    .EXAMPLE
        New-LDAPComputer -ComputerName "PC001" -SAMAccountName "PC001" -OUPath "OU=Test,OU=Computers,OU=LabOU,DC=poweradmin,DC=se"
        
    .EXAMPLE
        New-LDAPComputer "PC001" "PC001" "OU=Test,OU=Computers,OU=LabOU,DC=poweradmin,DC=se"
        
	.NOTES
		NAME:       New-LDAPComputer
		AUTHOR:     Fredrik Wall, fredrik@poweradmin.se
		TWITTER:    @walle75
		BLOG:       http://poweradmin.se/blog
		CREATED:    2012-01-15
		LASTEDIT:   2016-03-09
        VERSION:    2.1
	
	.LINK
		http://poweradmin.se/download
#>
	
	[CmdletBinding()]
	Param (
		[Parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = $true)]
		$ComputerName,
		[Parameter(Position = 2, Mandatory = $true)]
		$SAMAccountName,
		[Parameter(Position = 3, Mandatory = $true)]
		$OUPath
	)
	
	try
	{
		$myOU = new-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry "LDAP://$OUPath"
		$newComputer = $myOU.psbase.children.add("cn=" + $ComputerName, "computer")
		$newComputer.psbase.commitchanges()
		
		$newComputer.samaccountname = $SAMAccountName + "$"
		$newComputer.psbase.commitchanges()

		$newComputer.localpolicyflags = 0
		$newComputer.userAccountControl = "4096"
		$newComputer.psbase.commitchanges() 

        Write-Output "$ComputerName created"
	}
	catch
	{
		Write-Warning "$ComputerName `n$_"
	}
}

Function New-LDAPComputer

{

.SYNOPSIS

Creates an Active Directory computer object

.DESCRIPTION

Creates an Active Directory computer object using LDAP.

The computer will be enabled. Created with just the basic stuff.

.PARAMETER ComputerName

The name of the computer

.PARAMETER SAMAccountName

The SAMAccount name

.PARAMETER OUPath

The distinguishedName of the OU where the computer should be created in.

.EXAMPLE

New-LDAPComputer -ComputerName "PC001" -SAMAccountName "PC001" -OUPath "OU=Test,OU=Computers,OU=LabOU,DC=poweradmin,DC=se"

.EXAMPLE

New-LDAPComputer "PC001" "PC001" "OU=Test,OU=Computers,OU=LabOU,DC=poweradmin,DC=se"

.NOTES

NAME: New-LDAPComputer

AUTHOR: Fredrik Wall, fredrik@poweradmin.se

TWITTER: @walle75

BLOG: http://poweradmin.se/blog

CREATED: 2012-01-15

LASTEDIT: 2016-03-09

VERSION: 2.1

.LINK

http://poweradmin.se/download

[CmdletBinding()]

Param (

[Parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = $true)]

$ComputerName,

[Parameter(Position = 2, Mandatory = $true)]

$SAMAccountName,

[Parameter(Position = 3, Mandatory = $true)]

$OUPath

)

try

{

$myOU = new-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry "LDAP://$OUPath"

$newComputer = $myOU.psbase.children.add("cn=" + $ComputerName, "computer")

$newComputer.psbase.commitchanges()

$newComputer.samaccountname = $SAMAccountName + "$"

$newComputer.psbase.commitchanges()

$newComputer.localpolicyflags = 0

$newComputer.userAccountControl = "4096"

$newComputer.psbase.commitchanges()

Write-Output "$ComputerName created"

}

catch

{

Write-Warning "$ComputerName `n$_"

}

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News

Long time no blog post

March 13, 2016March 13, 2016 Dalle 1 Comment dalle, News

Hello, It’s more than a year since my last blog post. And before that I did not post much in

PowerShell Powershell Studio Windows

New Poweradmin tool released

April 24, 2014March 25, 2016 Dalle 0 Comment

I released a Poweradmin tool some days ago and it can be found here, http://powershelltaskforce.com/2014/04/uninstall-string-tool/ This is the first tool

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Create graphical programs with PowerShell–Part 02

June 23, 2013 Dalle 3 Comments Active Directory, dalle, Graphical applications, gui, PowerShell, PowerShell Studio, Windows Server 2012

In this second part of this blog series I will show you how to make the user part of the

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