‘Remove Exchange Attributes’ á la PowerShell

The extensions to Active Directory Users and Computers for Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 have a task called Remove Exchange Attributes that is accessible from the Exchange Tasks menu. It removes all Exhange related attributes from the objects on which it is run. This is useful when an object is in an inconsistent state, as …

Installing PowerShell with Package Manager on Windows Vista

Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe) is a new Windows Vista command-line tool that you can use offline to install, remove, or update Windows packages. You can add a package, provided as a .cab file, to an offline Windows image.  Package Manager can also enable or disable a Windows feature, either offline or on a running Windows installation. …

How to use the whenCreated and whenChanged attributes to search for objects in Active Directory

Sometimes it is useful to be able to search for objects in Active Directory based on when they were created or changed, or both. The two attributes that hold this information are whenCreated and whenChanged, and they are present on all AD objects. You use these two attributes like any other in you LDAP queries, …