It's all known, and people have used it since the early days of PowerShell. When reading this blog post, you may be thinking that there's nothing new one can add to emailing with PowerShell as there were tons of articles in recent years covering this subject pretty good. Finally, there is lo of folks within the community creating PowerShell scripts or functions that help with some Health Checks of your Active Directory. 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.
Mailflow query mailessentials install#
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. While I stopped supporting anything below PowerShell 5.1, I can't say if it's the project requirement. Things get even more complicated if you consider that Administrators group is called differently in different countries. Except it's not available on PowerShell 2.0, which is the default for Windows 7 that I have to support.
Mailflow query mailessentials password#
It's quite simple - use New-LocalUser a few parameters, some random password that I don't need to save as LAPS will overwrite it. While that road is blocked, I still need to get my user-created somehow. That is until you find out it's actually not possible anymore due to password encryption key being available in the wild, which made Microsoft block that Group Policy Preference. Go to Group Policies, create a new user, add it to an administrators group, and then follow standard steps to implement LAPS. Recently I got a simple task to implement LAPS for the newly created local user instead of using the built-in local administrator account.