August 19, 2021

How to Add or Remove Users from Active Directory Groups

Active Directory has been one of my favourite tools in which I could automate repetitive processes. Starting from user additions to user deletions, clean-up, audits, all the way to new hire and user account termination process. Active Directory is a fantastic avenue for automation. And, who does not like hyper-efficient Active Directory administrators? I thought I would start a series on Active Directory automations. Today, we look at adding users to and removing users from Active Directory groups.

January 31, 2020

Bulk deletion of an email from mailboxes

I have been an Exchange administrator. (And I have fond memories of those days.) Exchange is often an overlooked, underappreciated aspect of Enterprise IT administration. Of course, this is 2020, and we are steadily moving away from emails, replacing it with the likes of Teams, Slack, Wire and what not. I had read an article a long time ago (which I cannot find anymore) that pointed out the inherent flaws in emails; emails were never meant to be secure.

February 11, 2019

Service Status Monitoring using PowerShell

PowerShell is a blessing for Windows administrators. With the level of reach that PowerShell has in Windows, there is hardly anything in Windows administration that cannot be achieved using PowerShell. Recently, a colleague requested for a script that could help them monitor a set of services on a set of computers. They wanted the script to run every so many minutes, check if some specific services are running on a specified set of servers, and notify them if a service wasn’t running.