Category: Active Directory

At a company where I worked, there was no logging with account lock and the had plans to change the GPO that accounts will not be auto unlocked.
So I also added mailing to the admin of that specific OU (Country)

I found a script from Maxzor1908 on Technet
That was the basic. I Added a lot of extra.

# Powershell User Account locked out Maxzor1908 *16/4/2013* 
# Checked and edit by Daag van der Meer - 03-10-2018
# blog.van-daag.nl
#              Email adress needs to be filled in at the admin account.
 
##################
## Temp location for creating HTML email
##################
$Report= "c:\Temp\Lockedhtml.html" 

##################
## Log location
##################
$log= "C:\Logs\AccountLocked.csv"
 
$HTML=@" 
<title>Account locked out Report</title> 
<!--mce:0--> 
"@ 
 
$Account_Name = @{n='Account name';e={$_.ReplacementStrings[-1]}} 
$Account_domain = @{n='Account Domain';e={$_.ReplacementStrings[-2]}} 
$Caller_Computer_Name = @{n='Caller Computer Name';e={$_.ReplacementStrings[-1]}} 
 
##################
## Retrieve eventlog with all value
##################

             
$event= Get-EventLog -LogName Security -InstanceId 4740 -Newest 1 | 
   Select TimeGenerated,ReplacementStrings,"Account name","Account Domain","Caller Computer Name" | 
   % { 
     New-Object PSObject -Property @{ 
      "Account name" = $_.ReplacementStrings[-7] 
      "Account Domain" = $_.ReplacementStrings[5] 
      "Caller Computer Name" = $_.ReplacementStrings[1] 
      Date = $_.TimeGenerated 
    } 
   } 
    
  $event | ConvertTo-Html -Property "Account name","Account Domain","Caller Computer Name",Date -head $HTML -body  "<H2> User is locked in the Active Directory</H2>"| 
     Out-File $Report -Append 
 

##################
## Retrieve eventlog For filter username
##################


 $user= Get-EventLog -LogName Security -InstanceId 4740 -Newest 1 | 
   Select ReplacementStrings | 
   % { 
     New-Object PSObject -Property @{ 
      "Account name" = $_.ReplacementStrings[-7] 
      } 
   } 

$userrename = $user -replace ".*=" -replace "}"
$userou = Get-ADUser $userrename -Properties DistinguishedName | Select-Object -ExpandPropert DistinguishedName

##############################
## Here is the ad Groups configured who can unlock accounts
#############################
 

if ($userou.Contains('OU=<OU>')) {$mail = "<AD GROUP>"}

elseif ($userou.Contains('OU=<OU>')) {$mail = "<AD GROUP>"}

else {$mail = "<AD GROUP>" }

$adminmail = Get-ADGroupMember $mail | select samaccountname | %{Get-ADUser $_.samaccountname -Properties mail} | %{write-output "$($_.mail)"}
$mailadmin =  $adminmail -join "," -replace ",,"

##################
## Mail config admin
##################


$MailBody= Get-Content $Report 
$MailSubject= "User Account locked out" 
$SmtpClient = New-Object system.net.mail.smtpClient 
$SmtpClient.host = "<MAIL SERVER>" 
$MailMessage = New-Object system.net.mail.mailmessage 
$MailMessage.from = "<FROM MAIL ADRESS>" 
$MailMessage.To.add("<TO MAIL ADRESS>,$mailadmin") 
$MailMessage.Subject = $MailSubject 
$MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = 1 
$MailMessage.Body = $MailBody 
$SmtpClient.Send($MailMessage) 


##################
## Remove the temp document
##################
del c:\Temp\Lockedhtml.html

##################
## Write to log about the account lock
##################

$event | Export-Csv $log -NoTypeInformation -Append

At the company were I worked we had a name change. They also use the display name in outlook to send mail. Example: Daag van der Meer [Company] So everyone see direct what the company is.

The script below built the display name with firstname lastname [Company]

# Script created by Daag van der Meer
# Blog.van-daag.nl

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

#creates a list of all users (change all between <>
$allUsers = Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase 'ou=Users,ou=<OU>,DC=<DC>,DC=<DC' -Properties cn,displayName

 
# Add your company name or something else after username 
$hi = "<company>"

 

foreach ( $u in $allUsers | Where-Object { ($_.givenName) -and ($_.surName) } ) {

    $fn = $u.givenName.Trim()

    $ln = $u.surName.Trim()

   

    Write-Host $fn $ln

    Set-ADUser -Identity $u -DisplayName "$fn $ln $hi" -GivenName "$fn" -SurName "$ln"-PassThru |

        Rename-ADObject -NewName "$fn $ln $hi"

}