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Validate Active Directory (AD) Credentials

To configuring service account for the application after creating generated password causing issue many times, needs to validate active directory (AD) credentials before configuring it. Because enterprise level policy would disable service account with bad password attempts. The PowerShell script helps to validate efficiently.

<#
.DESCRIPTION
    Validate AD Account credential
.NOTES
    Author: Sathiya.io
#>
function Man-TestADUserAuth {
$cre = Get-Credential -Credential $null
if((new-object directoryservices.directoryentry “”,$cre.UserName,$cre.GetNetworkCredential().Password).psbase.name -ne $null) {
    Write-Host “Password is valid!” -ForegroundColor Green
}
else {
    Write-Host “Sorry! Either user name or password wrong!” -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Yellow
}
}
Man-TestADUserAuth

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<#

.DESCRIPTION

Validate AD Account credential

.NOTES

Author: Sathiya.io

#>

function Man–TestADUserAuth {

$cre = Get–Credential –Credential $null

if((new–object directoryservices.directoryentry “”,$cre.UserName,$cre.GetNetworkCredential().Password).psbase.name –ne $null) {

Write–Host “Password is valid!” –ForegroundColor Green

}

else {

Write–Host “Sorry! Either user name or password wrong!” –ForegroundColor Red –BackgroundColor Yellow

}

Man–TestADUserAuth

Scripts makes perfect, Cheers!

July 1, 2018

Export Windows Service to Excel with Filter

Another sample Powershell script to exporting “Running” and “Stopped” windows service to excel by using Powershell Array.

$location = “C:\sathiya.io”;
$service = @(“Running”, “Stopped”);
for ($i=0;$i -ne 2;$i++)
{
	$text = $service[$i];
	#Exporting the result to the text file
	# Append – This keyword is to update the file in the loop
	# Select – To export the field that you want to export
	Get-Service |?{$_.Status -eq “running”} | Select ServiceName, Status | Out-File $location\text1.txt -Append
	#Exporting the result to CSV
	Get-Service |?{$_.Status -eq $text} |  Select ServiceName, Status | export-csv $location\file2.csv -Append
}

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$location = “C:\sathiya.io”;

$service = @(“Running”, “Stopped”);

for ($i=0;$i -ne 2;$i++)

{

$text = $service[$i];

#Exporting the result to the text file

# Append – This keyword is to update the file in the loop

# Select – To export the field that you want to export

Get-Service |?{$_.Status -eq “running”} | Select ServiceName, Status | Out-File $location\text1.txt -Append

#Exporting the result to CSV

Get-Service |?{$_.Status -eq $text} | Select ServiceName, Status | export-csv $location\file2.csv -Append

}

Cheers!

September 21, 2015

Import Users in Active Directory Using PowerShell

Today, we are going to discuss about importing bulk users in Active Directory using PowerShell. We are all knows that we can do anything in PowerShell.
You can check the required parameter for adding AD user. But I’m going to import the below sample fields.

Basic Comment
New-ADUser
-Name “Disply Name”
-GivenName “First Name”
-Surname “Last Name”
-SamAccountName “UserName”
-UserPrincipalName “username@sathiya.io”
-Path “OU=OrganizationUnit,DC=sathiya,DC=io”
-Enabled $true
-PasswordNeverExpires $true
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString “password” -AsPlainText -force)
-PassThru

The above script is for adding single user.

Script

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Import-Csv .\ImportUser.csv | foreach-object { 
New-ADUser -Name $_.Name -GivenName $_.gn -Surname $_.sn -SamAccountName $_.samAcc -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN -Path $_.Path -Enabled $true -PasswordNeverExpires $true -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString $_.AccPass -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
}

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Import–Module ActiveDirectory

Import–Csv .\ImportUser.csv | foreach–object {

New–ADUser –Name $_.Name –GivenName $_.gn –Surname $_.sn –SamAccountName $_.samAcc –UserPrincipalName $_.UPN –Path $_.Path –Enabled $true –PasswordNeverExpires $true –AccountPassword (ConvertTo–SecureString $_.AccPass –AsPlainText –force) –PassThru

}

Sample CSV file ImportUser.csv

I hope the things are going good :)Cheers!

June 11, 2015

Category: Powershell

Validate Active Directory (AD) Credentials

Export Windows Service to Excel with Filter

Import Users in Active Directory Using PowerShell