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Surely there are some 3rd party companies give you some tools that can help with a lot of that as well. They also sell monitoring solutions such as Microsoft SCOM which can help and detect when some things happen in your AD while you were gone. That’s why Microsoft delivers you tools to the troubleshoot your Active Directory, such as dcdiag, repadmin and some others. Unless you have instructions for everything and can guarantee that things stay the same way as you left them forever, it’s a bit more complicated. While you may think you have done everything, checked everything, there’s always something missing. That’s why, as an Administrator, you need to manage Active Directory in terms of its Health and Security. When you scale Active Directory adding more servers, more domains things tend to get complicated, and while things on top may look like they work correctly, in practice, they may not. Active Directory is a whole ecosystem and works well ranging from small companies with ten users to 500k users or more (haven’t seen one myself – but so they say!). Unfortunately, things with Active Directory aren’t as easy as I’ve pictured it. In an ideal world that would be all and your only task would be to manage users, computers, and groups occasionally creating some Group Policies.

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You download and install Windows Server, install required roles and in 4 hours or less have a basic Active Directory setup. Setting up a new Active Directory is an easy task. Well sort of, because we have to get that SQL connection up and running first right? Since I had two “free” hours, I wrote a quick PowerShell Module called PSLansweeper which you can install straight from PowerShellGallery Send an email, install new software, restart the computer, any activity that you can think of at your fingertips. I can hear you saying again – But if you already have that report in Lansweeper, why need for PowerShell? Well, based on that Lansweeper report, I can do any action I want in PowerShell. But if you have Lansweeper, it already has that information.

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But to get that you will have to scan every PC in your domain and that's not trivial because not all computers are online, at all times. Think of a situation where the manager asks you what version of Microsoft Office is on all computers or as in the example above BIOS version. I can hear you asking – If Lansweeper is so great, why do you need to access it with PowerShell? Well, Lansweeper gathers a lot of data, lots of data that you usually have to spend time preparing in PowerShell thru different means, and that's not always the fastest way. Where tblBIOS.SMBIOSBIOSVersion Bios.biosMax And tblAssetCustom.State = 1

Inner Join tsysOS On tsysOS.OScode = tblAssets_1.OScode TblAssetCustom.Manufacturer = Bios.Manufacturer And TblAssetCustom_1.Model) As Bios On tblAssetCustom.Model = Bios.Model And TblAssetCustom_1.Model Not Like 'Virtual Machine' TblAssetCustom_1.Model Not Like 'VMware Virtual Platform' And

Where tblAssetCustom_1.Model Not Like 'VirtualBox' And Inner Join tblBIOS As tblBIOS_1 On tblAssets.AssetID = tblBIOS_1.AssetID Inner Join tblAssetCustom As tblAssetCustom_1 On tblAssets.AssetID = Max(tblBIOS_1.SMBIOSBIOSVersion) As biosMax

Inner Join (Select tblAssetCustom_1.Manufacturer, Inner Join tblAssetCustom On tblAssets_1.AssetID = tblAssetCustom.AssetID Inner Join tblBIOS On tblAssets_1.AssetID = tblBIOS.AssetID TblBIOS.SMBIOSBIOSVersion As CurrentBios,Ĭase When tblBIOS.SMBIOSBIOSVersion = Bios.biosMax Then 'black' Else 'red'

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