Tag: Active Directory

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

.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

Add computer to domain using CMD without restart

From your windows client machine open command prompt and run the following cmd to add computer to domain.

wmic.exe /interactive:off ComputerSystem Where name=”%computername%” call JoinDomainOrWorkgroup FJoinOptions=3 Name=”myDom.local” UserName=”myDom\UsrName” Password=”@passwrd!@”

1	wmic.exe /interactive:off ComputerSystem Where name=“%computername%” call JoinDomainOrWorkgroup FJoinOptions=3 Name=“myDom.local” UserName=“myDom\UsrName” Password=“@passwrd!@”

March 13, 2015