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Remove Active Directory Delegations

Posted on February 25, 2017February 25, 2024 by Alan

Over time, Active Directory delegations tend to accumulate and drift from the standards in the enterprise. Removing the delegations for a user or group can be slow, especially if you do it manually. Microsoft has a good article about this process, but none of the methods I found did what I needed. I wanted a script which…

Fast PowerShell Treeview OU Selection Form

Posted on April 28, 2016April 16, 2017 by Alan

A large number of my scripts involve picking an Active Directory Organizational Unit (OU). I have been using Out-Gridview for OU navigation. This is because I was unable to find a form based GUI OU picker that worked fast enough in my very large AD environment. The scripts I have seen tended to collect all objects at…

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