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Use PowerShell to require users with the oldest passwords to change their passwords

This PowerShell script will help you find the Active Directory users who have gone the longest without changing their password, and then require them to change their password the next time they logon to a domain resource. Consider this a password policy on a bell curve that targets those users who have the oldest Password …

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Load PowerCLI into the PowerShell session as a module

Last year, VMware wrote about “PowerCLI 6.0 – Introducing PowerCLI Modules.” Although I’ve been using PowerCLI 6.0 since then, I missed the note from Alan Renouf that made it easy to load all of the PowerCLI functionality into a PowerShell session as a module instead of having to launch PowerCLI. Here was his tip/trick: 1 …

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Running PowerShell as different user

If you want to launch PowerShell as a different user other than administrator, you won’t find a Run As menu to enter other credentials. After a bit of searching, I found that the following code works best in launching a new PowerShell windows as a different user. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 …

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Using PowerShell to change the UPN Suffix

For decades, it’s been a best practice to configure your corporate domain with a non-internet-rotatable .local domain (e.g. example.local instead of example.com). But in the modern everything-is-connected-to-the-internet age, this appears to be falling out of fashion. When “Preparing to provision users through directory synchronization to Office 365,” you’ll eventually realize that you’ll need to follow …

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