The Protected Users security group was introduced with Windows Server 2012 R2 and continued in Windows Server 2019. This group was developed to provide better protection for high privileged accounts from credential theft attacks. Members of this group have non-configurable protection applied. In order to use the Protected Users group, PDC should be running with a minimum of Windows Server 2012 R2…
Active Directory can hold near 2 billion objects. When the number of objects grows, the requirement for affective object filtering grows as well. Active Directory have several GUI options to search/filter specific objects. We also can filter objects using PowerShell.
In previous posts, we learned about Get-ADUser and Get-ADComputer cmdlets and how it can be used with other commands to filter…
Services Accounts are recommended to use when install application or services in infrastructure. It is dedicated account with specific privileges which use to run services, batch jobs, management tasks. In most of the infrastructures, service accounts are typical user accounts with “Password never expire” option. Since these service accounts are not been use regularly, Administrators…
There are few ways to create user objects in Active Directory. If it’s using GUI, it can be done using Active Directory Administrative Center or Active Directory Users and Computers MMC. If it is using command line, it can be done using windows command-line or PowerShell. In this demo, I am going to show how we can create user object using PowerShell.
In order to create user object in…