Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Find all groups with same group members in Active Directory

Jaap Brasser
2 Min To Read
24 May, 2013
- Active directory
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Today I was asked if there was a way to find out which groups have the same group members.

#PSTip Retrieve group membership of an Active Directory group recursively

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
23 May, 2013
- Active directory
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When you need to manage Active Directory, the Active Directory PowerShell module is the first admin choice as it provides many cmdlets for administering and interfacing with various AD objects.

#PSTip Verify local SAM store account credentials

Jaap Brasser
1 Min To Read
22 May, 2013
- Tips and tricks

PowerShell provides a nice way of testing if a set of credentials are correct. This can be done by using the System.

#PSTip Verify Active Directory account credentials using System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry

Jaap Brasser
2 Min To Read
21 May, 2013
- Active directory
- Tips and tricks

The System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace provides a nice way of testing if a set of Active Directory credentials are correct (also discussed in PSTip Validating Active Directory user credentials ).

#PSTip Adding local users to SQL Server Logins using SMO

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
17 May, 2013
- Tips and tricks
- SQL

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. There was a question on StackOverflow about adding local users to SQL Server logins.

#PSTip List SQL database mirroring partner using SMO

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
14 May, 2013
- Tips and tricks
- SQL

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In an earlier tip, we looked at how to verify if a SQL database is mirrored.

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