Have you recently setup a Test Active Directory and are using it to test out your scripts but you quickly realized that the alternate UPN suffixes that you forgot you didn’t create aren’t there?

Or.. maybe you just haven’t done this in forever like myself and had to Google how to add a UPN suffix to AD.

Well if either or none of those cases match why you are reading this right now, no need to worry, I’ll tell you anyway.

Adding UPN Suffix to Active Directory

Launch Active Directory Domains and Trusts and right-click on “Active Directory Domains and Trusts [dc.domain] at the top of the left pane and click Properties.

On the next window, add the alternate UPN suffixes you want added.

You will now see these UPNs available in the drop-down menu when you create a new user account, or modify an already existing one.

I have scrubbed and cleaned my next script for GitHub. This one was much easier to scrub and cleanup. This script will monitor the Active Directory Recycle Bin for deleted user objects based on a regex, with an area where you can add exceptions.

If the script finds any accounts it will send an e-mail with the samAccountName of the user accounts that were found.

The script can be found here: https://github.com/paularquette/Active-Directory/blob/main/AD_Check_For_Deleted_AccessID_User_Accounts.ps1

I’m realizing how much work is involved to clean and sanitize code so it is very simple for someone to just copy and paste it. I’m in the hopefully not forever long process of sharing code that I use in my day job. This process is cleaning up my code so there is a net plus here.

My first script revolves around running Active Directory with an external DNS provider. We had an issue awhile back where one of our Domain Controllers dropped out of DNS and since that incident a script was written to monitor DNS.

I feel like I have a lot of knowledge and scripts to share so stay tuned there is a lot more coming!

Link to script: https://github.com/paularquette/Active-Directory/blob/main/AD_Check_DNS_For_Domain_Controllers.ps1