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Month: September 2009
Membership in Builtin and Admin Groups
Nested groups can cause some unpleasant surprises when you are auditing membership in Active Directory Builtin Groups. BuiltInGroupsEnum.vbs will enumerate those groups recursively so you can determine exactly who is an administrator in your domain. BuiltInGroupsEnum.vbs v 1.2 (updated 10/1/2009) fixes an issue with enumeration of other domains, and adds Enterprise and Schema Admins to list of…
Who Joined Computer Account to AD Domain
Who joined a particular computer to your domain can be an annoying question which may go back beyond your logs. Even if you have captured the event, then you need to find the entry. WhoJoinedPC.cmd looks at the security descriptor for “SPECIAL ACCESS for Validated write to DNS host name”, which is granted when the account is…
Using DSQuery to get list of Domain controllers
The fastest way to get a list of DCs for Windows 2003 and later is: dsquery server -o rdn dsquery server gives you a CN output Tags: Active+Directory, DSQuery
HTA Runas Administrator Context Menu
I use a lot of HTA files, including Microsoft’s terrific Scriptomatic.hta, which writes vbscripts for you. On a Windows 2008 server you need to copy the HTA file down to the local machine before running. This REG file, HTA_RunAS.reg, gives you a context menu to RunAs Administrator. Rename to .REG to and merge. This is a subset of the…