Azure Active Directory Developer Support for MS Graph and AAD Graph
How to create a Developer Support Incident for an Azure Active Directory Graph API issue
The primary purpose of this post is to provide step by step instructions on how to create a support...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 08/28/2015
Issues while setting a "ManageBy" properties of a group object in Active Directory
Irfan Ahmed, Senior Support Escalation Engineer, brings this amazing blog to us. Read on....
Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/18/2015
AAD Graph API Version 1.5 is now available
A new version of the Graph API has been released and is now available. The MSDN documentation...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 10/30/2014
Display “Private Properties” of a cluster resource using PowerShell and C#
As with all other product management technologies, the Failover Cluster management API is moving to...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 09/16/2014
Converting IADsLargeInteger objects to DateTime objects in Powershell
There are several existing blog posts that discuss various methods for doing just this task. ...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 09/10/2014
What are the default permissions for a file share created using ADSI and IADsFileShare
If you are using ADSI to create file share, you may have noticed that when you view these...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 08/05/2014
What is the deal with KB 2260240 and its cousin KB 2742596–MS13-004?
The purpose of this particular blog post is to try and clear up some of the confusion swirling...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 04/03/2014
Did you get a “License assignment cannot be done for user with invalid usage location.” error when applying a license via Graph API?
One of the new features that was added on the 2013-11-08 release of Graph API is support for user...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 01/14/2014
How to create a service principal using the MSOL CMDLETS for use with the WAAD Graph API
This blog posts assumes that you are familiar with the Microsoft Online ( MSOL ) PowerShell cmdlets...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 11/26/2013
Using Fiddler to retrieve all of the users from a WAAD instance
The first step before you can submit any Graph request is to obtain an authorization token using the...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 09/13/2013
Using Fiddler to acquire a JWT ( JSON Web Token ) for use with the Graph API
One of the things that our developer support team has been trying to figure out over the past few...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 08/12/2013
Setting Active Directory Object permissions using powershell and System.DirectoryServices
There are times when you have the permission to set discretionary access control (DACL) entries,...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 07/09/2013
Problem: WMI StdRegProv Class can return junk characters when using the GetStringValue on windows 2003/XP/Vista and Windows 2008
Under a specific set of conditions, the StdRegProv GetStringValue method will return a string of...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 08/14/2012
How to specify TimeOut for ldap bind in .Net
A few days ago, I was working with a .Net developer who was building a Directory Server (Active...
Author: Jithesh P Nair Date: 06/06/2012
ChangePassword() and Password Complexity Violation Error Codes
This blog post attempts to describe why ChangePassword method of ADSI/System.DirectoryServices...
Author: Jithesh P Nair Date: 06/06/2012
Using Powershell cmdLet “Compare-Object” to compare WMI objects
Recently I came across a scenario where one of the developers wanted to automate to produce a list...
Author: Jithesh P Nair Date: 06/06/2012
How to get the Terminal Service Account settings and Client Settings from the Terminal Server
You can use Win32_TSAccount And Win32_TSClientSetting WMI class to get the information but these...
Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 04/12/2012
NetShareGetInfo in C# to read Share Permissions of a File System Object
NetShareGetInfo is a C++ API to read the information of a shared resource (File System Object...
Author: Shashi Kennalu Date: 03/29/2012
Reading all WINS IP addresses on a computer using Windows Scripting Host ( VBScript )
I recently worked with a developer who was working on a VBScript to enumerate all Windows Internet...
Author: Shashi Kennalu Date: 03/07/2012
WScript.Quit( Value ) does not always match the error code environment variable %errorlevel% in the command processor ( batch file processing ) environment.
In the windows scripting host environment, the WScript.Quit method can be used to return an exit...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 01/16/2012
Using PowerShell History ( Part 2 )
In my last blog, I talked about how you can increase the history buffer limit. This is very helpful...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 01/09/2012
Using PowerShell History ( Part 1 )
I like trying to figure out how things work and most of the time, it is via trial and error. Then I...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 01/05/2012
Searching the Active Directory using PowerShell
In my last blog, I provided a sample PowerShell script that shows how to use the...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 01/05/2012
Using a CSV file to create users by accessing the System.DirectoryServices namespace from a powershell script
There are several ways to programmatically create users in the Active Directory. The easiest way...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 01/05/2012
Using the global error collection stored in the $Error variable to retrieve detailed error information in a powershell script
I was recently working with a developer who wanted to know if there is a way to get the error when...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 01/05/2012
Using a customer application event log to debug a Powershell Script
Often, when I am debugging a developer’s PowerShell script, the only symptom I get is that the...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 01/05/2012
Using PowerShell to access the Registry
Anyone who has ever worked with the registry is very familiar with RegEdit. It’s been around since...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 12/21/2011
Automating the silent deployment of RemoteApp and Desktop Connection.
I have a customer that was trying to automate the RemoteApp and Desktop Connection but couldn't find...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 11/30/2011
Taking advantage of the PowerShell ISE
When Windows 7 was the first version of Windows that released which included the Windows PowerShell...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 11/30/2011
Title: COMException error 0x5011 (S_ADS_ERRORSOCCURRED) while enumerating the PrincipalSearchResult collection returned from System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagetment UserPrincipal:: GetGroups method
The COMException error 0x5011 (S_ADS_ERRORSOCCURRED) can be thrown when you are enumerating the...
Author: ShaleenT Date: 12/14/2010
How to work around the paging limitation in SQL Link Server when targeting the Active Directory.
When we create a SQL Linked Server to AD, there are certain limitations. For example, we cannot...
Author: ShaleenT Date: 10/12/2010
Custom Disk Resource displayed with ‘?’ icon in Fail Over Cluster Manager on Windows 2008 R2 Servers
You might see your custom storage class resource appears with a ‘?’ icon on Windows 2008 R2...
Author: kudwived Date: 06/25/2010
SDDL form of the SID doesn’t work in Active Directory filter on Windows 2000.
Recently, I was working with a customer who was trying to get the user’s group membership...
Author: kudwived Date: 05/13/2010
Create Proxy user in ADAM/AD LDS programmatically
A proxy object is an object in ADAM that represents a security principal in Active Directory. Each...
Author: kudwived Date: 05/04/2010
Retrieving product installation information using WMI via Powershell on a remote machine
The WMI class Win32_product can be used to obtain a list of all the products installed on a remote...
Author: kudwived Date: 04/09/2010
Mapping VolumeID to Disk partition Using the DeviceIOControl API
To map a volume with drive letter to disk partition, one may use some combination of WMI classes...
Author: Jitheshn Date: 03/19/2010
How does variable typing affect simple floating point arithmatic operations in Powershell, i.e. what is 1.1 – 1.04 ?
PowerShell is a great scripting language. You can get complex results by just a one liner, which...
Author: kudwived Date: 12/17/2009
ADAM running on Windows 2003 Gives exception 0x8007200a while updating null attributes
Recently, I was working on a scenario where I was trying to update the attributes of ADAM objects....
Author: kudwived Date: 12/04/2009
Accessing a 64 bit WMI provider from a 32 bit application running on a 64 bit client
Ordinarily, if you create a 64 bit WMI provider to run on a server, you will create a corresponding...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 09/18/2009
How to retrieve currently applied GPOs on your local machine using WMI via Windows Scripting Host ( WSH )
WMI provides two very useful Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) classes that can be used together to...
Author: ShaleenT Date: 09/18/2009
An "Access Denied" exception is generated migrating users from Windows 2000 or 2003 domain to a Windows 2008 domain using DsAddSidHistory API and pass "SrcDomainController" & "SrcDomainCreds" as NULL
An "Access Denied" exception is generated migrating users from Windows 2000 or 2003 domain to a...
Author: ShaleenT Date: 09/01/2009
Getting an exception “The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist”, when you try to search a user in an AD container using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal::FindByIdentity
This happens because If there is no container specified, the principal context class will create a...
Author: Jitheshn Date: 08/28/2009
Restoring object from the Active Directory Recycle Bin using AD Powershell
As anyone who has managed the Active Directory knows, if you delete an Active Directory object,...
Author: Joe Cordero (MSFT) Date: 08/26/2009
Working with Group Policy Objects Programmatically – Locating a GPO using the GPMC ( Group Policy Management Console ) object model in C++
In my previous post we discussed how to modify a registry based GPO programmatically. In this post...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 08/04/2009
Working with Group Policy Objects Programmatically - simple C++ example illustrating how to modify a registry based policy
In my last bog post:...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 07/23/2009
Working with Group Policy Objects Programmatically - Determining registry values to Enable/Disable/Set a specific policy
Greetings! Over the past few months our team has seen a number of customer requesting information on...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 07/23/2009
Converting Base64 encoded data from an LDIFDE dump of an object to its binary equivelent.
Something interesting that I discovered working with an LDIFDE dump. I need to verify that a base64...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 06/08/2009
Cross-Forest - IADsGroup::Add receiving error 80072030 "There is no such object on the server"
Problem: When running a script to add a user from forest Fabrikam, to a domain local group in forest...
Author: VishalJ@microsoft.com Date: 05/27/2009
32 bit Exe of PropSheetHost SDK Sample Fails on x64 Vista with a missing MUI resource error
If you build a 32 bit executable version of the PropSheetHost SDK sample and then try to execute it...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 03/27/2009
Creating a Password Settings object using Powershell 1.0
Password Settings objects were introduced in Windows 2008 AD to allow administrators more control...
Author: Max Vaughn Date: 03/03/2009