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• LEX - The LDAP Explorer : New version 1.5.003 is based on .NET Framework 4.x 07 May 2016

  The new version 1.5.003 of the LDAP browser / LDAP admin tool LEX - The LDAP Explorer is available. It comes with a few bugfixes and also is based on .NET Framework 4.x now. So LEX can be used on Windows 8.1 , Windows 10 or Windows Sevrer 2012 R2 without installing any…

• New SelfADSI Tutorial article: AD Permissions - The AdminSDHolder Mechanism 23 Jan 2014

  A new article in the SelfADSI tutorial is dedicated to the strange effect that for some Active Directory objects, the permissions suddenly seem to be missing. The inheritance of obejct rights is deactivated and is automatically disabled over and over again, even if you tried to…

• New LEX tutorial screencast video: How to transfer values from one attribute to another for many objects 10 Nov 2012

  A new LEX tutorial video was released: It demonstrates the usage of the multi object editor. LEX - The LDAP Explorer can access a lot of objects simultaneously with this editor. In our example, the contents of an LDAP attribute have to be transferred to another attribute - for…

• LEX - The LDAP Explorer : Brand new version 1.4.000 is available 08 Oct 2012

  The new version 1.4.000 of the LDAP browser / LDAP admin tool LEX - The LDAP Explorer is available. LEX now has an ability to monitor in real time an object on multiple LDAP servers. This is e.g. very useful if you want to have a closer look at the process of a replication. You…

• New SelfADSI Tutorial article: Script examples for setting permission in the Active Directory 27 Sep 2012

  After the last SelfADSI tutorial article has described the structure of NT Security Descriptors, now ther comes a practical demonstration in how to deal with object permissions in the Active Directory. In several VB scripts it is shown how to set or unset the option "User cannot…

• New LEX tutorial screencast video: How to use attribute columns in LDAP object lists 12 Jun 2012

  The first LEX tutorial video was released: It demonstrates the handling of attribute columns in LDAP object lists when you browsing a directory with the LDAP browser LEX. Attribute columns gives you a very quick overview over object properties and let you sort the objects easily…

• New SelfADSI Tutorial article about Microsoft Security Descriptors and AD permissions 25 Apr 2012

  This new article in the SelfADSI tutorial describes the design of Microsoft Security Descriptor values. An example of such a value is the AD attribute 'ntSecurityDescriptor'. Here you can evaluate or set the complex permissions to AD objects - but only if you know the intricate…

• LEX - The LDAP Explorer : New version 1.3.005 is available 29 May 2011

  The new version 1.3.005 of the LDAP browser / LDAP admin tool LEX - The LDAP Explorer is available. In this version, new LDAP syntax and data converter tool are introduced, among other improvements for general performance and stability.

• New SelfADSI Tutorial article about the pwdLastSet attribute 20 Feb 2011

  This new SelfADSI tutorial article describes the LDAP attribute pwdLastSet. This attribute represents the exat timestamp of the last password change for the regarding Active Directory account. Since this attribute is stored as a Microsoft Integer-8 value (100-nanosecond steps…

• LUMAX v1.0 - A free tool for Active Directory user maintenance 09 Jan 2011

  Today I released the first public version of LUMAX, our new free GUI tool for Active Directory user/account maintenance. LUMAX lets you easily create reports of important AD account information like Real Last Last Logon Time, Lockout State, Creation Date, Password Expiry Date,…

• How to search and find hidden recipients in an Exchange environment per script 05 Dec 2010

  This is a new article in the ' LDAP search factory ' section of the SelfADSI tutorial. It provides script examples demonstrating the search for Exchange mail recipients which are hidden from the adress book.

• New Version of LIZA, the free tool for Active Directory Security, Permission and ACL Analysis 01 Dec 2010

  I made a new version of LIZA available for download. Liza is a free tool for analysis of AD object permissions. The new release is 1.4 now. The new version fixes some minor issues in dealing with AD LDS directories. Another reason: LIZA is an offshoot of LEX - The LDAP Explorer…

• New Version of LAZARUS, the free tool for Active Directory Deleted Object Recovery 17 Nov 2010

  I made a new version of LAZARUS available for download. Liza is a free tool for accessing the deleted obejcts container and recovery for deleted objects in AD environments. The new release is 1.6 now. The new version fixes some minor issues in dealing with AD LDS directories.…

• Attributes for controlling the Ad replication: uSNCreated and uSNChanged 01 Nov 2010

  A new tutorial article describes the two object attributes uSNCreated and uSNChanged . These are the local update sequence numbers (USN) for each domain controller at the time of the creation or the last modification of an object. For a better understanding of the importance of…

• LEX - The LDAP Explorer : New version 1.3.002 is available 24 Oct 2010

  The new version 1.3.002 of the LDAP browser / LDAP admin tool LEX - The LDAP Explorer is available. In this version, many improvements in the handling of LDAP filters and directory search operations were introduced. LEX can create now for example from a list of names, email…

• How to search and find user accounts in Active Directory 26 Sep 2010

  In most cases in which I see sample scripts for LDAP searchoperations for Active Directory users, the following LDAP filter is used: (&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person)) . However, this is not the optimal method to search for user accounts. This filter syntax causes an…

• How to find all members of an Active Directory group 11 Sep 2010

  In Active Directory Scripts the members of a group are searched often by binding to the regarding group object and evaluating it's API property members or LDAP attribute member - or by evaluating the 'opposite' user attribute memberOf . However, this is not exactly the same,…

• Description for the LDAP attributes of an Active Directory Contact object 19 Aug 2010

  Today i added the attribute description for Active Directory contact objects to the SelfADSI tutorial. For a long time now, the corresponding topics for the LDAP attributes for AD users and LDAP attributes for AD groups are among the most-wanted topics of the tutorial, so it was…

• LEX - The LDAP Explorer : New version 1.3.000 is available 21 Jul 2010

  The new version 1.3.000 of my LDAP browser / LDAP admin tool LEX - The LDAP Explorer is available. New features in this version: The new Pipe Factory is integrated now: Launch any script or application directly from an objects context menu and pass the distinguished name as a…

• Name Translation : How to detect the LDAP path of a user 17 Jul 2010

  ... if you know only the user's logon name. A Tutorial for the usage of the IADsNameTranslate Interface in a VB script. This allows NetBIOS logon name (sAMAccountName) and UPN (User Principal Name) to be converted easily in the full LDAP path of that user accounts - this LDAP…

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