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Audit uptime of all servers

Chris Roualin 0 Comments Active Directory, Powershell, Server, uptime

Monitoring servers is an important thing, almost uptime of all servers. You should have some dedicated tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, etc… BUT ! Here is a script to generate an HTML report of all your servers uptime.

Massive AD Group Creation using Powershell

Chris Roualin Active Directory, AD, Groupes, Groups, Powershell

#Parameters 
$InputFile="import.csv"


#Variables
$errors=0
$success=0

#csv file that contains all groups to create 
$InputGroups=Import-csv $InputFile -Delimiter ";"

$InputGroups|
Foreach-Object{
	
	#Importing data
	$GroupName=$_."GroupName"
	$Destination=$_."DESTINATION"
	$Description=$_."DESCRIPTION"
	
	Write-Host "`n Creation du groupe : $GroupName -" -NoNewLine
	
	#AD Group creation
	New-ADGroup -name "$GroupName" -groupscope DomainLocal -GroupCategory Security -Description $Description -path $Destination
	
	#Check if group well created
	$testADGroup=Get-ADGroup $GroupName
	If($testADGroup){
		Write-Host " OK" -ForegroundColor:GREEN
		$success+=1
	}
	Else{
		Write-Host " KO" -ForegroundColor:RED
		$errors+=1
	}	

}

#Final 
$total=$success+$errors
Write-Host "`n `n $total groups created : `n "
Write-Host "           - $success" -NoNewLine -ForegroundColor:GREEN
Write-Host " groups created"
Write-Host "           - $errors" -NoNewLine -ForegroundColor:RED
Write-Host " groupes not created `n `n "

#Parameters

$InputFile="import.csv"

#Variables

$errors=0

$success=0

#csv file that contains all groups to create

$InputGroups=Import-csv $InputFile -Delimiter ";"

$InputGroups|

Foreach-Object{

#Importing data

$GroupName=$_."GroupName"

$Destination=$_."DESTINATION"

$Description=$_."DESCRIPTION"

Write-Host "`n Creation du groupe : $GroupName -" -NoNewLine

#AD Group creation

New-ADGroup -name "$GroupName" -groupscope DomainLocal -GroupCategory Security -Description $Description -path $Destination

#Check if group well created

$testADGroup=Get-ADGroup $GroupName

If($testADGroup){

Write-Host " OK" -ForegroundColor:GREEN

$success+=1

}

Else{

Write-Host " KO" -ForegroundColor:RED

$errors+=1

}

#Final

$total=$success+$errors

Write-Host "`n `n $total groups created : `n "

Write-Host " - $success" -NoNewLine -ForegroundColor:GREEN

Write-Host " groups created"

Write-Host " - $errors" -NoNewLine -ForegroundColor:RED

Write-Host " groupes not created `n `n "

A quick Powershell script, easy to use, to create a lot of groups from a csv file

The import csv file is like :

GroupName;DESTINATION;DESCRIPTION

Active Directory – Get a Free Domain Controller

Chris Roualin 0 Comments Active Directory, Microsoft, powershell, Tips

It could be really usefull to use the -DomainController parameter with many Powershell commands… But How to be sure to find an available DC ?

A little function will help you to do that :

Function Get_Domain_Controller {
$site = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.ActiveDirectorysite]::GetComputerSite()
$back = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetCurrentDomain().FindDomainController($site).Name
return $back
}

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