Open the below ports to your Active Directory servers for Active Directory communication to work with clients
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Open the below ports to your Active Directory servers for Active Directory communication to work with clients
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Problem:
I needed to add multiple users all in the same OU to multiple different groups using PowerShell
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In this post I will go over what is required to setup a Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standalone Certificate Authority. I will not be using this Certificate Authority with Microsoft Active Directory.
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To authenticate your vCenter users with Active Directory for Single Sign-On (SSO) follow the method below. This will work for VMware vSphere versions 6.0 and 6.5. You will first need join the vCenter server to the domain.
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I have been using my implementation of the PRTG monitoring system now for some time and for a large number of clients. The system is inexpensive and works extremely well. What I like most about it is its flexibility and ability to be customised heavily according to your needs. Here is my guide to setting up a PRTG monitoring server to monitor all the typical enterprise systems including: AD, Exchange, DFS, Network equipment and more.
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To convert an Active Directory SID to a name use:
$SID ='S-1-5-21-1210182304-1361979235-1847136127-5299' $objSID = New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier($SID) $objUser = $objSID.Translate([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount]) Write-Host "Resolved user name: " $objUser.Value
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