Archive for March, 2010

PowerShell Script: Encrypting / Decrypting A String – Function Encrypt-String

Posted on March 20, 2010. Filed under: Powershell Tangents |

By: Brenton Blawat The encryption and decryption of strings is essential when creating an enterprise product that has clear text passwords. This function displays how to encrypt and decrypt a string using Powershell using Richard’s code located at http://poshcode.org/116. While I found his code very useful, he didn’t explain the syntax and is why I [...]

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PowerShell Script: Finding A Distinguished Name of a Group/User: Function Find-DN

Posted on March 8, 2010. Filed under: Powershell Tangents |

By: Brenton Blawat This article explains the the method by which one would be able to Search Active Directory for the distinguished name of a User or Group. This is helpful when trying to add an object to Active Directory or adding Users to Groups. Function Find-DN Finding Distinguished Name: Download PS1 Here 1: # [...]

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