Whenever you are working with the tools included in the Administration Pack, you might want to use some shortcuts to get quicker to the information you want. For instance, when working in a Active Directory forest with multiple domains, you sometimes do not want to spend time clicking and hovering through the Start Menu to get to Active Directory Users and Computers, to open the AD structure of the domain you are logged into, and to manually open the Active Directory Domain you want to make changes in.
Do it quicker.
Continue reading ‘Adminpak.msi Redux’
The Windows Active Directory does not really have hard limits when it comes to group memberships. There are however soft limits.
Any ADSI or WMI query to a list of your group memberships will turn out to 1000 members in Windows 2000 mode, or 1500 in Windows 2003 native mode. Only by using ADO range limits, you can go by this soft limit.
This shouldn’t pose a problem when you are just adding members to an already big group. However, it does. Continue reading ‘Adding members to groups with +1500 members in PowerShell’
