How to get list of empty groups in active directory

     When we do cleanup activity in Ad,we might wanted to check if any empty groups exist's.How to get the list of empty groups in Ad ?

We can get the list easily with help of Active  directory power shell .Below is the one-liner command to pull the information

Get-ADGroup -Filter * -Properties Members | where {-not $_.members} | select Name | Export-Csv C:\ADemptygroupLIST.csv –NoTypeInformation

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Bijesh
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Command To Get the list of Active directory users with account expire date

DSQUERY Command To Get the list of  Active directory users with account expire date

dsquery user -name * -limit 0 | dsget user -samid -acctexpires

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Bijesh

Command to add DNS record

Simple Command to Add add DNS record

Dnscmd  ServerName /recordadd  <DomainName> HostEntry A <x.x.x.x>

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Veeam Powershell command to get the list of job completed with status Success

Veeam Powershell command to get the list of job completed with status Success

Get-VBRJob | Where-Object {$_.GetLastResult() -ne "Failed" -and $_.GetLastResult() -ne "None" -and $_.findlastsession().progress.stoptime -ge (Get-Date).addhours(-24)} |Select-object  @{Name="Job";Expression={$_.Name}}, @{Name="Status";Expression={$_.GetLastResult()}}, @{Name="ID";Expression={$_.id}}, @{Name="Job Msg";Expression={$_.FindLastSession().info.description}}, @{Name="Session";Expression={$_.FindLastSession()}} | Select-Object "Job","Status","ID"

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Bijesh

Veeam Powershell command to get the list of job completed with status Failed/Warning

Veeam Powershell command to get the list of job completed with status Failed/Warning

 Get-VBRJob | Where-Object {$_.GetLastResult() -ne "Success" -and $_.GetLastResult() -ne "None" -and $_.findlastsession().progress.stoptime -ge (Get-Date).addhours(-24)} |Select-object  @{Name="Job";Expression={$_.Name}}, @{Name="Status";Expression={$_.GetLastResult()}}, @{Name="ID";Expression={$_.id}}, @{Name="Job Msg";Expression={$_.FindLastSession().info.description}}, @{Name="Session";Expression={$_.FindLastSession()}} | Select-Object  "Job","Status","ID"

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Bijesh

Power shell command to get last windows update install date

Powershell command to get last windows update install date


Get-hotfix -ComputerName <Servername> | select-Object Source,installedon -first 1

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Bijesh

Horizon View Powercli command to Get number of unassigned VM’s Count in pool

Horizon View  Powercli command to Get number of unassigned VM’s Count in a pool


Get-Pool | Select Pool_id, @{Name="Unassigned VMs";Expression={($_ | Get-DesktopVM | ? {$_.user_displayname -eq "$null"}).Count}}

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Bijesh

Power shell Command to export mailbox to PST

Power Shell command –To export mailbox to PST


  New-MailboxExportRequest –Mailbox  <Username>  –FilePath \\<servername>\Sharename\user.pst


    PS:          -FilePath parameter only accepts a UNC path (\\servername\share).

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Powershell Command to Access New-PSSession for remote exchange server

Access New-PSSession for remote exchange server



$exg = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://<server fqdn>/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos

Import-PSSession $exg

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Bijesh

Command to get Power shell session History

Simple command to get PS Session History

How to save power shell session input and output to a file

Sometime while working on powershell we may want to save the ran command and output to a file .How do we save the session input and output to a file ?



To Start saving the transcript,

    start-transcript -Path <FileName>

To Stop saving the transcript

    stop-transcript

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Bijesh