I don’t have a photo frame on my working table, instead I set my favorite photo as my Windows 7 logon background by using the tool named ‘Windows 7 Logon Background Changer’. Alternatively, you can edit the registry to do the same thing. But using this tool allows you to preview it before you make … Continue reading Windows 7 Logon Background Changer
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Find Additional AD Account Information
I like to add an extra tab named ‘Additional info’ in the AD users’ property, as it gives me more information on the users’ account, like when the account was created, or when the password has been reset. To install it, firstly you need to download the acctinfo.dll file and place it somewhere on your … Continue reading Find Additional AD Account Information
PowerShell: Generating AD Accounts Status Report
When I worked as a Windows system administrator, reviewing the Active Directory domain accounts is part of my routine work. We did not have a tool that can automatically generate a account report. So I wrote a PowerShell script to do the work. The script will generate a report in .csv format, which contains the … Continue reading PowerShell: Generating AD Accounts Status Report
Batch Script: Windows AD Migration
I worked on a Windows domain migration project several months ago. The P company acquired the B company, and request to migrate all former B company’s employees’ desktops and laptops to P company’s AD domain. Firstly, I created all new AD accounts for B company’s employees in P company’s AD. Then I wrote the following … Continue reading Batch Script: Windows AD Migration
AD User Get Locked Out?
As a Windows domain administrator, unlocking locked user account is part of the routine work. Besides user continually type in the wrong passwords, the below three senarios also can lead to the issue. First, some users tend to keep their password remembered in applications like Internet browser. As this saves their time to type password … Continue reading AD User Get Locked Out?