Searching for and reporting on AD users
Once your AD environment has existed for some time, finding and changing settings in your environment can become difficult. For example, let's say when the domain was first created, all the users had the same logon script named logon.bat
. Over time, specific needs arose that caused the creation of logon2.bat
, and new_logon.bat
, and testlogon.bat
, with different users assigned to each script.
As an administrator, you want to consolidate all these logon scripts into one, but you need to know what this will impact. You need to know which logon scripts are being used, who is using which ones, and why the different scripts exist. Thanks to the capabilities of AD and PowerShell queries, these items can easily be found.
In this recipe we will perform multiple queries against Active Directory. We will be returning different information.
How to do it...
Carry out the following steps to search for and report on AD users:
To report on all users and their logon scripts...