Trent Steenholdt's Blog

A simple blog sharing my findings, interests, and work in the Information Technology industry, as well as anything else that interests me.

TOGAF 9 - Quick guide
TOGAF 9 - Quick guide

itil prince2 togaf

This is a rare blog post for me as I’m not usually one to reference how-to videos on YouTube but I have recently been watching Craig’s videos to really give me a good refresher on the methodology that is TOGAF. I invite others who may be studying towards TOGAF or need a refresher on...

Remove disabled users from AD groups
Remove disabled users from AD groups

active-directory ad adac aduc powershell scripting

I had an interesting request from a client today in so far they wanted AD to be cleaned out completely… Hrrm? Okay? So what do you mean by cleaned? *Insert joke about dcpromo demoting the domain*.

Copy AD groups from one user to another
Copy AD groups from one user to another

active-directory ad powershell

It seems that a lot of my posts recently have been around AD group membership and I guess that makes sense as for the past few weeks I have been mostly cleaning up a lot of the mistakes by other IT professionals for my new clients. Alas it’s coming a...

Audit Active Directory quick and dirty. Find all administrators, disabled users and lastlogin (UTC)
Audit Active Directory quick and dirty. Find all administrators, disabled users and lastlogin (UTC)

active-directory ad audit

I had the need today to do a quick audit of Active Directory and see where it was at for a client. Not just the norm like dcdiag.exe, repadmin and checking the Event Viewer to see if there were any issues but also how many administrators there are, who is disabled (if any as...

Rename all computers with a Powershell script
Rename all computers with a Powershell script

active-directory powershell

It’s an activity that all of us will have done numerous times in the past and will do in the future… rename a computer! But what happens when say the organisation you work for changes their workstation naming standard and want to have all the workstations renamed straight away?! Well, a...