I using the TimeBasedGroupmemberships in Active Directory for pretty much everything. For example I want to add the User "MrJones" to the mailbox "Daily.News#contoso.com" until 08/31/2022, so I use the following command: TimeBasedGroupmembership mrjones Daily.News 08 31 2022
In this case I created the AD-Group "Daily.News" with full access to the mailbox. That works very well so far. So for automapping the mailbox to the users Outlook, I add the distinguishedName from the user by hand in the Attribute Editor under msExchDelegateListLink.
Is there any opportunity to create a powershell command, ideally a combined one, to do that automatically? So that it is automatically set and remove.
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I have built an onboarding Powershell script to help our IT team simplify onboarding process. Script will add in some necessary AD fields, assign a mailbox and add in Security groups. After creating user, I have following code to add in user's officephone, street address and so on, those are based on which office they are going work in -
switch ($Office){
'office 1'{
// add in officephone and other fields
$Code = "O1"
}
'office 2'{
// add in officephone and other fields
$Code = "O2"
}
}
The $Code is used to assign Security groups as some SG names are based on office name. For example, if the user's role is maintenance officer in office O1, then a SG named MaintenanceOfficer_O1 needs to be added to this user. So the code looks like following -
Switch ($Role){
'Maintenance Officer'{
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity ("MaintenanceOffice_{0}" -f $Code) -Members $SAN
}
}
The script works fine, but we have quite a lot of roles and new roles will be created in future, so I was thinking to create some text files for our IT Support so they can add in more roles themselves. It will be something like -
get-content -path .\$role
// do a foreach loop for add-adgroupmember
Then in $role.txt file, there are AD groups for this role. So our IT support will be able to add in text file to the folder without needing access to script.
But you can see there is a problem as some SG group name requires $code.....
This is more like a logical problem than a technical one, please share any thoughts or let me know if you are confused with anything.
Thanks,
Raeb
Make your text file of roles a CSV file with two fields. The second field contains true or false to indicate if $code needs to be appended to the group name.
Edit 1:
If you want to keep the file simple you could test for the existence of the group as it appears in the file and if it doesn't exist test for the existence of the group with the variable appended.
I had search around the internet and only found how to use Carbon module to edit Local Policy. But I need to edit Group Policy actually
Picture Want to do the same thing as the picture but using script (GPO)
GPO name and ID
Unfortunately, the short answer is still you can't.
Group policy objects are kind of a mess with:
The policy objects: \\domain.com\sysvol\policies\{GPO-GUID}\
Each require PolicyDefinition files, which can be custom-created: \\domain.com\sysvol\policies\PolicyDefinitions\*.admx
Which in turn each require a matching localized language definition: \\domain.com\sysvol\policies\PolicyDefinitions\en-US\*.adml
Either use the group policy management mmc tool, or find the registry keys that correspond to the gpo settings you want, and change them via powershell.
I am trying to delegate control of specific OU to admin group for those attributes:
msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress
ProxyAddresses
msRTCSIP-Line
However, this attributes are NOT listen in Active Directory Delegation Wizard.
I tried to find another way to do that with Powershell here. But i can't figure out how to set or pass those attributes in the command line.
Any help would be appreciated.
Introduction
I've been tasked with creating a user management PowerShell script to be used for one of our customers so that we can easily manage users and automate a lot of our user creation processes.
The Issue
Our customer is insisting on using login scripts over GPO for mapping drives for users. I have added a login script builder to the script, however I cannot for the life of me figure out how to specify which drives actually need adding to the login script.
How Drive Mappings Are Managed
The way drive mappings are managed at our customer's network, is based on job role + Active Directory groups. They request on an E-Form which drives need to be mapped, and we then look through the Active Directory to see which group has permissions to access the requested drives. We then add these groups.
What I Need Help With
I've managed to figure out what code I need to use, however groups aren't being added to the user at all. I can't get it working.
Current Code
Note: This may not all be in order, there may be code in-between on the actual script. This is just relevant code.
Group Assignment
$GroupAssignment = $zzeveryone,$safebootdu,$infosecdrive,$mgmtboarddrive,$anaestheticsdrive,
$adverseirdrive,$breastcancersecsdrive,$bookwisedrive,$patientassessmentdrive,
$clinicaleducationdrive,$clinicaldevdrive,$clinicalauddrive,$CDUdrive,
$CBLettersdrive,$commsdrive,$colorectalscdrive,$colorectaldrive,
$codingdrive,$clinicalsupportdrive,$clinicalstddrive,$dietitiansdrive,
$dermatologydrive,$csudrive,$complaintsdrive,$entdrive,$emudrive,
$ElderlyCaredrive,$dischargedrive,$financedrive,$familyplanningdrive,
$GeneralSurgdrive,$gastrodrive,$infectiondrive,$infoptdrive,
$InfoMangtdrive,$MedStaffingdrive,$MedPhotodrive,$legaldrive,
$MedicalEquipdrive,$orthopticsdrive,$Orthopaedicsdrive,$OccHealthdrive,
$palsdrive,$Pharmacydrive,$Pathologydrive,$PostGraddrive,
$Podiatrydrive,$Respiratorydrive
Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -Identity $SAMAccountName -MemberOf $GroupAssignment
Example Group Assignment
$wcservicesdrive = if ($User.'Drives (Seperate with a ;)' -Contains 'women and childrens servicesdomain w&c services') {
Write-Output "domain w&c services"
}
Else {
Write-Output ""
}
$GroupAssignment should cause this to output to the Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership, however it doesn't.
Any ideas?
How to add ForeignSecurityPrincipals to 'Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services' (AD LDS)? i.e. bringing 'AD security principals (users as well as computer accounts)' to AD LDS? Any script/ps cmdlet/tool?
Adding 'AD' security princials as "ForeingSecurtyPrincipals" to AD LDS using 'ADSI edit'
I know I can bring them by making them members of administrators/readers/users (i.e. in order to define roles for the 'AD users' as readers/users/administrators the foreign security principals need to be added - which makes sense - so ADSI edit is automatically adding the SIDs to foregin security principals container) (please see the attached image
Question (what are different ways of doing it other than assigning roles using adsi edit):
But, I am wondering is there a way without making the security principal as member of one of the roles? especially I don't want to do this way for 'computer accounts' - as they are not categorized as 'administrators' or 'users' or 'roles' - default in AD LDS schema. I think I can extend the schema so that my AD LDS instance understands computer accounts and then add the computers there.
Just curious if there is another way to do it? any other tool or PS script will also do as well as I am pretty sure there are number of 'directory services admin tools'
Regards.
You seem to be asking about two different things, here. The image is showing you grant access to Active Directory security principals to ADLDS. But then you start talking about extending the schema, suggesting you're looking to import objects from AD.
If it's the latter, you could use FIM, ADAMSync or roll your own using e.g. PowerShell.
More help on ADAMSync here
* UPDATE *
According to Dmitri Gavrilov in this post, manually adding FSPs is not possible.
Alternatively, you can use powershell to add the user/computer to one of the built-in groups (my example will use Readers), then immediately remove them. The foreignSecurityPrincipal will remain in the directory. It seems that ADAM/ADLDS is the one actually creating the foreignSecurityPrincipal object on your behalf when you request adding a member by SID.
Get the Readers group in the Configuration partition...
$servername = "myserver:389"
$configPartition = (Get-ADRootDSE -Server $servername).namingContexts | ? { $_ -match "^CN=Configuration" }
$readersGroup = ("CN=Readers,CN=Roles," + $configPartition)
Add the SID (Wrap in <SID=...>) to the Readers group
Set-ADObject -Identity $readersGroup-Add #{member = "<SID=S-X-X-XX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXX>"} -Server $servername
Remove the SID from the Readers group
Set-ADObject -Identity $readersGroup-Remove #{member = "<SID=S-X-X-XX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXX>"} -Server $servername
Actually it simply turned out to be that I can set 'permissions' on ad lds directory objects without adding to the 'ForeignSecuritypPrincipals' container...
So, I just set 'perms' based on sid (few examples are below, http://greatit.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/dsacls-and-built-in-groups/ )
Examples which grant 'generic all/full control' on AD LDS obect:
dscals "\\{myadldsserver}:{port}\cn=testadldsobect,cn=test,cn=com' /g {sid}:GA
dsacls {DN} /g {domain}/{username}:GA
dsacls {DN} /g {domain}/{machinename}$:GA
Regards.