In version 5 of AD Bulk Users and version 4 of AD Bulk Export you no longer need to add in all the command line arguments. You can use the scheduler wizard to specify all your options and then youRead More
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Microsoft patches massive vulnerability called JASBUG – bigger than Heartbleed
Microsoft has today issued a critical patch for every supported version of Windows that fixes a fifteen year old bug (named JASBUG) that could allow attackers to remotely take control of computers joined to an Active Directory domain. See Microsoft’sRead More
Active Directory Health Check
From time to time its worth running a health check on your Active Directory to make sure everything is running smoothly. We occasionally get a support questions that after some investigation boil down to an issue with the domain. BelowRead More
Renaming a User updating the Common Name (cn)
This article was updated on the 4th October 2015 and is valid for version 5 and up of AD Bulk Users. To update most attributes with AD Bulk Users you simply add the sAMAccountName (username of the user to beRead More
AD Bulk Export version 4
AD Bulk Export version 4 the latest version of our Active Directory export tool is now available to download. It is a significant upgrade over version 3, to start with version 4 is now 1500% quicker and uses 75% lessRead More
AD Bulk Users and thumbnailPhoto
This article is only relevant to version 3.3, in version 4 and above the procedure to change the sAMaccountName has changed. AD Bulk Users 3.3.1.5 is now available, in this incremental release it is now possible to import photos forRead More
AD Photos updated
Now your users can put a face to a name by using Outlook 2010, one of many great new feature in Outlook 2010 is the ability to view a small photo of other users. This is done by reading theRead More
Importing users with duplicate names
When importing a large number of users into Active Directory it is possible that 2 or more users will share the same name. When using AD Bulk Users the users first name (givenName attribute) and second name (sn attribute) areRead More
Using AD Bulk Users to update Exchange Storage Limits
In the latest build of AD Bulk Users we’ve added support setting the Exchange Storage Limits, these limits are stored in the attributes mDBStorageQuota Issue warning , mDBOverQuotaLimit Prohibit send at and mDBOverHardQuotaLimit Prohibit send and receive at. <a href=”http://dove3.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/StorageLimits.png”><imgRead More
Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy?
When importing new users (or modifying existing users) with an Exchange mailbox you may not want to have the Exchange recipient policy update the e-mail addresses for those users, by default when AD Bulk Users creates the mailbox ‘Automatically updateRead More
Append, Drop and Truncate with AD Bulk Export 3.0.7.2
This latest release of AD Bulk Export includes a couple of minor bug fixes and a change to the way saving to a SQL database can be done. Two new command line arguments have been added, these are /dropTable andRead More
Storing photos in Active Directory using the jpegPhoto Attribute
The latest version of AD Bulk Users now has support for adding (and removing) photos to Active Directory using the jpegPhoto attribute, the jpegPhoto attribute was added to Windows 2003 AD and supports the JPEG format. There are a fewRead More
AD Find and Replace 1.9.5 New Features
We’ve added a few new features to AD Find and Replace, the first is called ‘Replace within N characters’, this allows you to perform a replace only with the first N number of characters or the last N number ofRead More
AD Bulk Users 3.1.3.0
Version 3.1.3.0 was released today adding the ability to set the ‘User Cannot Change Password’ option. To set this add a column to your CSV file called <strong>userCannotChangePassword</strong> and set the value to TRUE or FALSE. [responsive]<a href=”http://dove3.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/usercannotchangepassword.png”><img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-170″ src=”http://dove3.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/usercannotchangepassword.png”Read More
AD Bulk Users 3.2.2.0
The latest release of AD Bulk Users contains a number of great new features, the first worth mentioning is the detection of all your Exchange Stores, no need to type in store paths anymore. As you can see in theRead More
Update to AD Self Password Reset
Hi all, Version 2.5 of AD Self Password Reset is now complete. We’ve added some great new features in this release, one such feature is ‘Privileged Users’. This allows the ‘privileged users’ group to reset the passwords of the ‘managedRead More
Synchronize Active Directory with SQL
This is quite an old post (November 29th, 2007) but worth a read if you are trying to update AD with data from a SQL database. <a href=”http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/datacenter/?p=241″>http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/datacenter/?p=241</a>
AD Bulk Contacts 3.2 now supports Exchange 2010
AD Bulk Contacts now includes support for Exchange 2010, note the Exchange 2010 management tools can only be installed on Windows 7, Vista SP2, Windows 2008 SP2, 2008 R2 Microsoft Technet article on how to Install the Exchange 2010 ManagementRead More
AD Bulk Users, 10x faster and support for Exchange 2010
Happy New Year! AD Bulk Users 3.3 is now available, in this release we’ve made some changes to the way AD Bulk Users creates new users and we’ve gained a significant speed increase, approx 10x faster in our tests whenRead More