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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition
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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

by Thomas Lee
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
542 pages
10h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

Reporting on AD users

Managing the Active Directory is an important albeit time-consuming task. Discovering a user account that has not been used for a reasonable period or a user that has membership in a privileged account (for example, enterprise administrators) could represent security risks to the organization. Regular reporting can help to place a focus on accounts that could be usefully de-activated. That could mean the account being removed from a security group or removed altogether.

This recipe creates a report of users, computers, and privileged group membership and displays this report on the console.

Getting ready

This recipe, which you run on DC1, reports on users with possible issues: a user hasn't logged on for a while, has made a ...

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