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      <title>Gather Domain Controller Configuration Script</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recently, I needed to gather some information about the domain controllers in my customer's AD DS...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently, I needed to gather some information about the domain controllers in my customer's AD DS environments for a migration to Windows Server 2016. The customer has several forests, with several domains, with several domain controllers, all over the world.

Obviously, RDPing into each one isn't practical.

Bring on PowerShell!

In collaboration with a fellow Microsoft employee (waiting on approval to post his name), we wrote a script that will gather the data needed and output it to a CSV file. It uses a workflow to connect to each domain controller and return the data.

<strong>Disclaimer--</strong> There may be 'better' or ‘more efficient’ or ‘cleaner’ or ‘whatever’ way to do what this script accomplishes. I know that, but this works and does what I needed it to do.

You can get the latest version of the script <a target="_blank" href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Gather-Domain-Controller-3905f70d" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Hope it helps someone, anyone.

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      <title>Active Directory Forest/Domain Discovery Script</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:06:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[So, I was recently working with a customer on an AD DS migration to Windows Server 2016 and needed...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[So, I was recently working with a customer on an AD DS migration to Windows Server 2016 and needed to get a bunch of information from their current forest/domain infrastructure to write the new design. Getting the information needed isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do.

The first thing I did, as any good consultant would, I hope, was to read their AD DS design document, which fortunately they had, although outdated. As we all know, or should know, what was designed isn't always what was deployed or what the state of the environment is several years later. In the end, the design document only gave me part of the story, but I needed more.

Next, I began 'interviewing' people who managed and maintained the infrastructure, and quickly discovered that the information received wasn't always accurate, for one reason or another. Being a 'trust and verify' kind of person, I started looking into things myself and found that it was taking too long to poke around with the AD tools...way too long.

Bring on PowerShell!!

I quickly put together a script that gathers some of the information I was looking for. I say 'some' of the information because I have other scripts that gets the rest of it, but those are for another day.

<strong>Disclaimer--</strong> There may be 'better' or ‘more efficient’ or ‘cleaner’ or ‘whatever’ way to do what this script accomplishes. I know that, but this works and does what I needed it to do.

You can get the latest version of the script <a target="_blank" href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Active-Directory-5c2112c8" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Hope it helps someone, anyone.

T-

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      <title>Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 Security Auditing and Monitoring Reference Published</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Theron Howton]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Looking for security auditing and monitoring info for Windows 10 or Server 2016? Well, look no...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Looking for security auditing and monitoring info for Windows 10 or Server 2016? Well, look no further!!!

<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52630">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52630</a>

Enjoy!

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      <title>Just the Beginning...</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 07:30:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Theron Howton]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hey! How are ya? Nice to have you here!

I'll be using this to document things, events, issues,...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey! How are ya? Nice to have you here!

I'll be using this to document things, events, issues, 'stuff', etc. that I've worked on throughout my time as a customer facing consultant for Microsoft. I don't plan to post about 'stuff' that is readily available through some other means, like, maybe a quick Bing search, but instead, I'll be discussing items that I had to 'work' hard for the answer because the information either doesn't exist or isn't very clear. Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best.

I'm simply looking to help where I can.

Regards,

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