Auditing: Format Active Directory Email Addresses

Michael Rogers Auditing, Powershell

Perhaps this is just my own OCD but I think email addresses should all be formatted in the same way in active directory but inevitably some will put john@company.com and others will put John@company.com and all variations in between. 

The below can be run to fix the formatting as you like it and will change all email addresses to your desired format.

$users = Get-ADUser -filter * -Properties name,samaccountname,mail  | Select-Object name,samaccountname,mail
foreach ($user in $users) {

    $Name = $user.name
    $UserID = $user.samaccountname
    $Email = $user.mail
    $NewEmail = (Get-Culture).TextInfo.ToTitleCase("$email")
try {
set-aduser $UserID -EmailAddress $NewEmail 
}
catch {write-host "The email field for $Name is blank" -ForegroundColor Red}
}
$users.Count

GUI: LAPS Password Recovery Tool

Michael Rogers GUI, Powershell

The below LAPS Password Recovery Tool For Deleted Objects and those still in AD is created to allow you also recover the Microsoft LAPS administrator password of objects that have been deleted but that are still within the tombstone period of your Active Directory Forest.

This is the only advantage over Microsofts own GUI but is useful if you were to delete lots of machines from Active Directory and subsequently need to get in to it without restoring the object.

It will need to be run as an account that has permissions to ready the ms-Mcs-AdmPwd property and requires the Active Directory PowerShell module to be available (RSAT)

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Function: Internet Radio Control – Frontier Silicon

Michael Rogers Auditing, Powershell

The below uses the PowerShell invoke web request cmdlet to control a Roberts Internet Radio using the Frontier Silicon API. I have tied this in with my home automation to turn the radio on and off as feedback what is playing.

 

 

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Auditing: Report and Disable Inactive AD User Accounts

Michael Rogers Auditing, Powershell

The below can be run as a scheduled task to detect and disable accounts that have not been used for a specified amount of days or for accounts which have never been used.

Report outputs to a CSV and is displayed as follows:

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Auditing: Reset Passwords That Expire Today

Michael Rogers Auditing, Powershell

The below can be run as a scheduled task to detect Active Directory User accounts that have passwords that expire today. Any objects where the password is due to expire today will automatically have the “Change password at next logon” ticked meaning that they wont suddenly lose connection to things such as mapped drives at the original expiry time.

Credit to Andrew Lyonette for turning my “Why dont you solve it like this” in to the script below.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylyonette/

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Auditing: Report and Disable Inactive AD Computer Accounts

Michael Rogers Auditing, Powershell

The below can be run as a scheduled task to detect and disable accounts that have not been used for a specified amount of days or for accounts which have never been used.

Report outputs to a CSV and is displayed as follows:

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