Tag Archives: ADS

Find existing UPN in Forest

Posted on 2018/07/26 by maoeh

A userPrincipalName (UPN) must be unique in a Active Directory Forest. To check for an existing UPN use the following lines. The powershell script expects that all DC’s within the Root Domain are GC enabled . $RootDomain = "Contoso.com" $DomainControllerRoot … Continue reading →

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Force replication on all domain controller of a domain

Posted on 2018/07/26 by maoeh

The following line searches for all Domain Controllers of a Domain . Then it filters some Computers by IP (10.10.10.*) to eliminate RODCs and finally forces replication on each remaining Domain Controller. $Domain = "Contoso.com" Get-ADDomainController -Filter * -server $Domain … Continue reading →

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Get Domain from distinguished Name

Posted on 2018/07/25 by maoeh

Get Domain from FQDN: get-domfqdn “CN=Test,OU=Orgunit,DC=contoso,DC=test” will result in contoso.test function get-domfqdn ($fqdn)  {  $afqdn= $fqdn.split(",")  $first = 0  $Dom=""  foreach ($pfqdn in $afqdn)   {   If ($pfqdn.contains("DC=") -eq $true)    {    If ($first -eq 1)     {            $Dom = $Dom+"."     } … Continue reading →

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SCOM Domain Controller greyed out

Posted on 2012/01/19 by maoeh

Possible problems are: 1. HSLockdown has SYSTEM in denied list. – run : HSlockdown <ManagementGroupName> /R “NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM” 2. Operations Manager Event log shows Error  Source: Health Service Script  Event ID: 10  Message: AD MP DC Local Discovery : Active … Continue reading →

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MomADAdmin error in Child Domain

Posted on 2011/04/21 by maoeh

MomADAdmin is not extending Active Directory on Child domains. The problem occurs in a environment where SCOM is installed in one domain monitoring other domain. Within SCOM the following error is shown: MomADAdmin not run To successful run momadadmin you … Continue reading →

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