If we wanted to find Home Directory Path of the users in the Orginization then below commands helps you to pull the data
Get-QADUser | select DisplayName,Email,HomeDirectory | Export-Csv c:\HomeDirectory.csv
Command to get the Home Directory for the given list of users and export the result to CSV
get-content C:\users.txt | select DisplayName,Email,HomeDirectory | Export-Csv c:\HomeDirectory.csv
We can recover any Active Directory deleted object with in the Tombstone period.
Tombstone lifetime can be found in active directory using below steps
• Load the ADSIEdit snap-in by navigating to start menu, programs, Windows 2000 Support Tools, Tools, ADSI Edit, or simply type adsiedit.msc at the run command.
• Navigate down to CN=Directory Service, through Configuration, CN=Configuration,DC=domainName,DC=com, CN=Services, CN=Windows NT, right-click and choose properties.
• scroll down to tombstoneLifetime. This will have Tombstone period
Get-QADUser -Tombstone
Will get the list of user accounts which are Deleted and residing in Tombstone
Get-QADUser -Tombstone <name> |restore-QADDeletedObject
Will restore the user object in to the OU LOSTANDFOUND
Get-QADUser -Tombstone -LastKnownParent ‘<DN of container>’
Restores all user accounts that were deleted from a particular container to OU LOSTANDFOUND.
Get-QADUser –Tombstone –LastChangedOn (get-date -year 2008 -month 9 -day 1)
Restores all user accounts that were deleted on September 1, 2008
Get-QADUser –Tombstone <username> | fl
Gives the complete details of the -Tombstone account which can help in finding detained information of the Tombstoned account
You can download Active roles Quest Management shell from the below mentioned link.
http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx
Commands to check if mailbox is active or disabled
Get-QADUser <username> -enabled
Will get the result if acount in active
Get-QADUser <username> -disabled
Will get result if account is disabled
Get-QADUser -Enabled
Will get all the enabled in the Active Directory
Get-QADUser -Disabled
Will get all the disabled users in the Active Directory
get-content “C:\users.txt” | Get-QADUser -enabled | select Email
Will get list of all active users email address from the given input users
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