The Get-Acl cmdlet can help us to obtain the access control list of a resource, for example a directory. With this information we can determine the permissions that a domain user or a security group has over a resource. Let’s check the help for this command: The Get-Help shows three different sets of parameters for […]
Moving users or computers in AD with the Move-ADObject cmdlet
According to the official documentation, Move-ADObject “Moves an Active Directory object or a container of objects to a different container or domain”. The straightforward noun-verb structure of PS also suggest what you can do with it. Let’s review the syntax: Both -Identity and -TargetPath are obligatory parameters. Regarding -Identity, we can use a distinguished name […]
Get the hash value of a file with PowerShell
Sometimes is useful to be able to look for the hash value of a file without using third party software. Since PowerShell comes installed by default with Windows and it has an specific cmdlet for this purpose, this process can be very simple. Using Get-FileHash cmdlet This cmdlet, according to Microsoft Documentation, “Computes the hash […]