Spfarm Account Permissions in active directory

Hello All,
I have created SP 2010 lab env with AD. i have created on user in ad as SP_farm. i dont know exactly what permissions should be given to SP_Farm account in AD.
Thanks

It can be a normal user in AD but if you use same account for Profile sync the it should have "Replicate directory changes" on AD. Normally people use same account for install as well. Then it should have server admin permission on SP Server.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445%28v=office.15%29.aspx
Server farm account
This account is also referred to as the database access account.
This account has the following properties:
It's the application pool identity for the SharePoint Central Administration website.
It's the process account for the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service.
Setup user account
The user account that is used to run:
If you run Windows PowerShell cmdlets that affect a database, this account must be a member of the
db_owner fixed database role for the database.
Setup on each server computer
SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard
The Psconfig command-line tool
The Stsadm command-line tool
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Account Unknown on Active Directory

How can I delete Account Unknown on Active Directory? is there a tool or script for deleting 1000 Account Unknown on Active Directory?

Generally, Account Unknown may appear if the system cannot find the account SID which was recorded in ACL of an object in local system or AD database. This issue may occur if user accounts were deleted or the Account Unknown belongs to other system(dual
boot configuration). This is reason that we recommend granting permission on resources to the Domain Local security group instead of individual users. It will be much easier for management and will not generate orphaned SID because user group is stabler.
If you don’t have another system on the same computer or Domain Trust, we can delete the unknown accounts safely.
However, It would be suggested to create a delegation report using the following command before deleting unknown accounts. I will help check them.
for /f "delims=" %x in ('dsquery OU "OU=HR,DC=d1,DC=com"') do acldiag %x > %x.txt
Please refer to this earlier discussed thread that is based on same concern :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/d3d6b211-7c31-4ebc-aff6-489d60fd9910/active-directory-security-permissions-account-unknown?forum=winserverDS
Since, there is a number of unknown accounts that is required to be deleted, you may try this
AD cleaner tool that can be helpful to accomplish this task in quick attempt.
Carlo

How to set in Windows 8.1 the Account Picture from Active Directory

Hello All,
In my company I have uploaded the photos for
each employees in
Active Directory using a powershell script that set the attribute
thumbnailphoto.
This is useful for images in Lync and Outlook,
now I want to use these pictures
to sync with the account picture
in Windows 8.1 but I haven't found anything in internet that helps me
for this.
I hope someone can help me,
Thanks!

Hi,
You can try the steps in following article:
Using Pictures from Active Directory
http://msitpros.com/?p=1036
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For your reference, here is the similar thread with different method:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d6e7b2c3-c343-4900-a01d-24bfb30357b6/is-there-a-solution-to-set-user-account-picture-from-active-directory-thumbnailphoto-attribute-in?forum=w8itproinstall
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[Forum FAQ] Using PowerShell to assign permissions on Active Directory objects

As we all know, the
ActiveDirectoryAccessRule class is used to represent an access control entry (ACE) in the discretionary access control list (DACL) of an Active Directory Domain Services object.
To set the permissions on Active Directory objects, the relevant classes and their enumerations are listed as below:
System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectoryAccessRule class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.directoryservices.activedirectoryaccessrule(v=vs.110).aspx
System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectoryRights
class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.directoryservices.activedirectoryrights(v=vs.110).aspx
System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w4ds5h86(v=vs.110).aspx
System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurityInheritance class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.directoryservices.activedirectorysecurityinheritance(v=vs.110).aspx
In this article, we introduce three ways to get and set the ACE on an Active Directory object. In general,
we use Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) or
Active Directory module cmdlets
with the Get-Acl and Set-Acl cmdlets to assign simple permissions on Active Directory objects. In addition, we can use the extended rights and GUID settings to execute
more complex permission settings.
Method 1: Using ADSI
1. Get current permissions of an organization unit (OU)
We can use the PowerShell script below to get current permissions of an organization unit and you just need to define the name of the OU.
$Name = "OU=xxx,DC=com"
$ADObject = [ADSI]"LDAP://$Name"
$aclObject = $ADObject.psbase.ObjectSecurity
$aclList = $aclObject.GetAccessRules($true,$true,[System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier])
$output=@()
foreach($acl in $aclList)
$objSID = New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier($acl.IdentityReference)
     $info = @{
'ActiveDirectoryRights' = $acl.ActiveDirectoryRights;
'InheritanceType' = $acl.InheritanceType;
'ObjectType' = $acl.ObjectType;
'InheritedObjectType' = $acl.InheritedObjectType;
'ObjectFlags' = $acl.ObjectFlags;
'AccessControlType' = $acl.AccessControlType;
'IdentityReference' = $acl.IdentityReference;
'NTAccount' = $objSID.Translate( [System.Security.Principal.NTAccount] );
'IsInherited' = $acl.IsInherited;
'InheritanceFlags' = $acl.InheritanceFlags;
'PropagationFlags' = $acl.PropagationFlags;
$obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $info
$output+=$obj}
$output
In the figure below, you can see the results of running the script above:
Figure 1．
2. Assign a computer object with Full Control permission on an OU
We can use the script below to delegate Full Control permission to the computer objects within an OU:
$SysManObj = [ADSI]("LDAP://OU=test….,DC=com") #get the OU object
$computer = get-adcomputer "COMPUTERNAME" #get the computer object which will be assigned with Full Control permission within an OU
$sid = [System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier] $computer.SID
$identity = [System.Security.Principal.IdentityReference] $SID
$adRights = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectoryRights] "GenericAll"
$type = [System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType] "Allow"
$inheritanceType = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurityInheritance] "All"
$ACE = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectoryAccessRule $identity,$adRights,$type,$inheritanceType #set permission
$SysManObj.psbase.ObjectSecurity.AddAccessRule($ACE)
$SysManObj.psbase.commitchanges()
After running the script above, you can check the computer object in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) and it is under the Security tab in OU Properties.
Method 2: Using Active Directory module with the Get-Acl and Set-Acl cmdlets
You can use the script below to get and assign Full Control permission to a computer object on an OU:
$acl = get-acl "ad:OU=xxx,DC=com"
$acl.access #to get access right of the OU
$computer = get-adcomputer "COMPUTERNAME"
$sid = [System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier] $computer.SID
# Create a new access control entry to allow access to the OU
$identity = [System.Security.Principal.IdentityReference] $SID
$adRights = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectoryRights] "GenericAll"
$type = [System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType] "Allow"
$inheritanceType = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurityInheritance] "All"
$ACE = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectoryAccessRule $identity,$adRights,$type,$inheritanceType
# Add the ACE to the ACL, then set the ACL to save the changes
$acl.AddAccessRule($ace)
Set-acl -aclobject $acl "ad:OU=xxx,DC=com"
Method 3: Using GUID setting
The scripts above can only help us to complete simple tasks, however, we may want to execute more complex permission settings. In this scenario, we can use GUID settings to achieve
that.
The specific ACEs allow an administrator to delegate Active Directory specific rights (i.e. extended rights) or read/write access to a property set (i.e. a named collection of attributes) by
setting ObjectType field in an object specific ACE to the
rightsGuid of the extended right or property set. The delegation can also be created to target child objects of a specific class by setting the
InheritedObjectType field to the schemaIDGuid of the class.
We choose to use this pattern: ActiveDirectoryAccessRule(IdentityReference, ActiveDirectoryRights, AccessControlType, Guid, ActiveDirectorySecurityInheritance, Guid)
You can use the script below to
assign the group object with the permission to change user password on all user objects within an OU.
$acl = get-acl "ad:OU=xxx,DC=com"
$group = Get-ADgroup xxx
$sid = new-object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier $group.SID
# The following object specific ACE is to grant Group permission to change user password on all user objects under OU
$objectguid = new-object Guid
00299570-246d-11d0-a768-00aa006e0529 # is the rightsGuid for the extended right User-Force-Change-Password (“Reset Password”)
class
$inheritedobjectguid = new-object Guid
bf967aba-0de6-11d0-a285-00aa003049e2 # is the schemaIDGuid for the user
$identity = [System.Security.Principal.IdentityReference] $SID
$adRights = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectoryRights] "ExtendedRight"
$type = [System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType]
"Allow"
$inheritanceType = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurityInheritance] "Descendents"
$ace = new-object System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectoryAccessRule $identity,$adRights,$type,$objectGuid,$inheritanceType,$inheritedobjectguid
$acl.AddAccessRule($ace)
Set-acl -aclobject $acl "ad:OU=xxx,DC=com"
The figure below shows the result of running the script above:
Figure 2．
In addition, if you want to assign other permissions, you can change the GUID values in the script above. The common GUID values are listed as below:
$guidChangePassword
= new-object Guid ab721a53-1e2f-11d0-9819-00aa0040529b
$guidLockoutTime
= new-object Guid 28630ebf-41d5-11d1-a9c1-0000f80367c1
$guidPwdLastSet
= new-object Guid bf967a0a-0de6-11d0-a285-00aa003049e2
$guidComputerObject
= new-object Guid bf967a86-0de6-11d0-a285-00aa003049e2
$guidUserObject
= new-object Guid bf967aba-0de6-11d0-a285-00aa003049e2
$guidLinkGroupPolicy
= new-object Guid f30e3bbe-9ff0-11d1-b603-0000f80367c1
$guidGroupPolicyOptions
= new-object Guid f30e3bbf-9ff0-11d1-b603-0000f80367c1
$guidResetPassword
= new-object Guid 00299570-246d-11d0-a768-00aa006e0529
$guidGroupObject
= new-object Guid BF967A9C-0DE6-11D0-A285-00AA003049E2
$guidContactObject
= new-object Guid 5CB41ED0-0E4C-11D0-A286-00AA003049E2
$guidOUObject
= new-object Guid BF967AA5-0DE6-11D0-A285-00AA003049E2
$guidPrinterObject
= new-object Guid BF967AA8-0DE6-11D0-A285-00AA003049E2
$guidWriteMembers
    = new-object Guid bf9679c0-0de6-11d0-a285-00aa003049e2
$guidNull
= new-object Guid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
$guidPublicInformation
= new-object Guid e48d0154-bcf8-11d1-8702-00c04fb96050
$guidGeneralInformation
= new-object Guid 59ba2f42-79a2-11d0-9020-00c04fc2d3cf
$guidPersonalInformation = new-object Guid 77B5B886-944A-11d1-AEBD-0000F80367C1
$guidGroupMembership
= new-object Guid bc0ac240-79a9-11d0-9020-00c04fc2d4cf
More information:
Add Object Specific ACEs using Active Directory Powershell
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adpowershell/archive/2009/10/13/add-object-specific-aces-using-active-directory-powershell.aspx
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The ActiveDirectoryAccessRule has more than one constructor, but yes, you've interpreted the one that takes six arguments correctly.
Those GUIDs are different (check just before the first dash). Creating that ACE will create an empty GUID for InheritedObjectType, though, because you're telling it to apply to the Object only ([System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurityInheritance]::None).
Since the ACE will only apply to the object, there's no need to worry about what types of objects will inherit it.
If you've got time, check out
this module. It will let you view the security descriptors in a much friendlier format. Try both version 3.0 and the version 4.0 preview:
Sample version 3.0:
# This is going to be kind of slow, and it will take a few seconds the first time
# you run it because it has to build the list of GUID <--> Property/Class/etc objects
Get-ADGroup GroupY |
Get-AccessControlEntry -ObjectAceType member -InheritedObjectAceType group -ActiveDirectoryRights WriteProperty
# Same as the previous command, except limit it to access granted to GroupX
Get-ADGroup GroupY |
Get-AccessControlEntry -ObjectAceType member -InheritedObjectAceType group -ActiveDirectoryRights WriteProperty -Principal GroupX
Here's version 4.0. It's way faster than 3.0, but it's missing the -ObjectAceType and -InheritedObjectAceType parameters on Get-AccessControlEntry (don't worry, when they come back they'll be better than in 3.0):
Get-ADGroup GroupY |
Get-AccessControlEntry
Get-ADGroup GroupY |
Get-AccessControlEntry -ActiveDirectoryRights WriteProperty
Get-ADGroup GroupY |
Get-AccessControlEntry -ActiveDirectoryRights WriteProperty -Principal GroupX
# You can do a Where-Object filter until the parameters are added back to Get-AccessControlEntry:
Get-ADGroup GroupY |
Get-AccessControlEntry -ActiveDirectoryRights WriteProperty |
where { $_.AccessMask -match "All Prop|member Prop" }
Get-ADGroup GroupY |
Get-AccessControlEntry -ActiveDirectoryRights WriteProperty |
where { $_.ObjectAceType -in ($null, [guid]::Empty, "bf9679c0-0de6-11d0-a285-00aa003049e2") }
Get-ADGroup GroupY |
Get-AccessControlEntry -ActiveDirectoryRights WriteProperty |
where { $_.AccessMask -match "All Prop|member Prop" -and $_.AppliesTo -match "group"}
That's just for viewing. Version 3.0 can add and remove access, or you can use New-AccessControlEntry to replace your call to New-Object, and you can still use Get-Acl and Set-Acl. The benefit to New-AccessControlEntry is that you can do something like this:
New-AccessControlEntry -Principal GroupX -ActiveDirectoryRights WriteProperty -ObjectAceType member -InheritedObjectAceType group #-AppliesTo Object

Account Disabled on Active Directory while provisioning

While provisioning to Active Directory resource,it should Account Disabled on Active Directory.
I have added userAccountControl in the attributes.
I am able to read the userAccountControl value where the last digit in the hexadecimal value of it corresponds to accountDisabled.
How to achieve this? Any ideas or suggestions are welcome

Hi idmguru,
Below is the requirement, i found from other thread in the forum :
Scenarios:
1). User already exists in IDM and has the resources assigned to the. Their status is then set to disabled on the database, ActiveSync runs & picks up the change, our form iterates through disabling the resources (or we've also tried setting global.disable which also worked) - result is a success. The user is flagged as disabled in IDM Lighthouse, AD account is disabled and LDAP account has been disabled via a password change (the default behaviour).
2). User does NOT already exist in IDM. ActiveSync is run, the user is created in IDM and resource accounts assigned and created, user is marked as disabled in IDM Lighthouse but is NOT disabled in AD or LDAP.
Is there a mechanism to both create AND disable a resource account at the same time? If so can this be done from an ActiveSync form or would it be customised workflow? I've tried the following in my ActiveSync which I found in the forums but this doesn't create the "disabled" accounts on AD or LDAP - it only marks the IDM account as disabled.
<Field>
<Disable>
<neq>
<ref>activeSync.accountstatus</ref>
<s>D</s>
</neq>
</Disable>
<Field name='waveset.disabled'>
<Expansion>
<s>true</s>
</Expansion>
</Field>
<FieldLoop for='name' in='waveset.accounts[*].name'>
<Field name='accounts[$(name)].disable'>
<Expansion>
<s>true</s>
</Expansion>
</Field>
</FieldLoop>
<FieldLoop for='name' in='waveset.accounts[*].name'>
<Field name='update.accounts[$(name)].disable'>
<Expansion>
<s>true</s>
</Expansion>
</Field>
</FieldLoop>
</Field>
The code works fine for Scenario 1 but NOT Scenario 2. I am not sure why the code does not work for Scenario 2
Any idea on how to achieve Scenario 2 requirement?
Regards and thanks
idm6x

Delegate permissions in Active Directory

Hello All,
I have a temporary technician that comes once in a while to do work for us.I want to delegate the following permissions to do the day to day support tasks:-
1)Reset Users password
2)Unlock the User Accounts
3)join computers into our domain and remove the computers
from our domain
All our User are kept under a "OU=Staff" and All our Computer accounts are kept under "OU=Computers"
I don't want to give any other unnecessary permissions to this
technician on other OU's, My Domain Controller is windows 2008.
Can you please help me how to do this task.
Regards,

You see the Wiki I started here for the permissions delegation in AD: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20292.delegation-of-administration-in-active-directory.aspx
To delegate unlocking user accounts: http://windowsitpro.com/security/q-how-can-i-delegate-right-unlock-locked-active-directory-ad-user-accounts
To delegate the reset of users password: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/1464-how-to-delegate-password-reset-permissions-for-your-it-staff
To delegate joining computers to a domain: https://robiulislam.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/delegate-non-admin-account-to-add-workstations-to-domain/
To delegate removing computers from a domain: http://sigkillit.com/2013/06/12/delegate-adddelete-computer-objects-in-ad/
In case you would like also delegating moving AD objects then here you go: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20747.delegate-moving-user-group-and-computer-accounts-between-organizational-units-in-active-directory.aspx
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Problem migrating account from one active directory domain to another. Using NetBIOS

Hello,
I'm migrating a Lion machine from one domain to another. When I try to join it to abc.example.com it joines it to 123.example.com in the list of domains. 123.example.com is the NetBIOS name of abc.example.com. This configuration does not work.
What is even more strange, is if I go into the Open Directory Utility > Active Directory to set the create mobile account settings, once I apply the settings (or even if I don't apply the settings) when I get back to the list of domains, it show BOTH abc.example.com and 123.example.com as domains I am joined to. If I remove 123.example.com it removes abc.example.com.
I've only seen this problem one other time and this was with a snow leopard machine that was not bound to AD. I upgraded it to Lion and tried to bind it, and had the exact same thing occur.
I'm certain there is a "stuck" setting somewhere that is causing this. I have had successful snow leopard > lion upgrades work, and many lion machines joined to AD so this does work normally. Just not sure whats wrong or really where to look.
The OS is fully patched and updated to the current version.
Any thoughts?

Case 1:
Here you can written pre-update event handler which will check whether minor and major org code changed or not.
If changed then first starts de-provisioning and then start provisioning.
If not changed then do nothing.
This approach will not transfer accounts from one domain to another but it will create fresh accounts and remove accounts from old domain.
Case2:
If you want to transfer accounts from one domain to another in that on pre-update you have to change OU of user on process which automatically move to another domain.
but not sure about exchange it is possible to move to another domain.
hopping that all domains under same forest otherwise same Connector Sever will not work.

Pulling "cn=Users" account data from Active Directory issue

I'm using the following general syntax:
ldapsearch -h <active directory server> -p 389 -D "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,dc=ORACLE,dc=COM" -b "DC=ORACLE,DC=COM" -s base objectclass=*
What I get is only "cn=System" output. Any ideas to get the "cn=Users" data?? I can authenticate users in other ways using the Oracle LDAP tools through the same "active directory server". So it's not a matter of it not existing in the Active Directory Server. Also, there is no password right now for the "Administrator" account; so it's not a matter of including/excluding the "-w" option.
Any suggestions??
Thanks.

I recommend you to post this here:
Forums Home » Oracle Technology Network (OTN) » Products » Application Server » Oracle Internet Directory
Identity Manager
Joel Pérez
http://otn.oracle.com/experts

Oracle account and microsoft active directory password synchronisation

Hi
We are migrating our application to use windows active directory authentication. We have separate oracle account for
each logged in user in the application, and these oracle credentials have to be the same as the windows active directory
credentials.
Also, a password change on windows Active directory should change the oracle account password.
Is there a tool available to manage and synchronize the microsoft active directory and oracle account.
We use oracle 10g and application is hosted on Windows 2008 server.
Thanks
Karthik

There's an OOTB connector for Password Synch between AD -> OIM. Please use that.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/id-mgmt/downloads/connectors-101674.html
For password synch, OIM- AD/Oracle, you can use triggers.
Enabling update for provisioned user in OIM11g

How to modify the Account options in Active directory?

I want to modify some user account options in my active directory through java. Such as "user must change the password on next logon" & "account expires" the user has to change the password by redirecting to the change password page after login.
if account expires or the user must change the password on next logon functionality in the account options is enabled, i couldn't able to bind that user. this is because i am unable to authenticate the same user with the password in the login page. it shows that User is not authenticated & i got data 773 error which means that i want to redirect to the change password page.
During the change password, i cannot able to change the password due to unsuccessfull bind. since the user is not authenticated with the temporary password.
please suggest me solutions.
Thanks in advance.

You've come across the chicken & egg problem.
A user's password has expired and they must change their password at the next logon, however in order to change their password over LDAP, they must perform a successful bind !
Unfortunatey LDAP is not an authentication protocol.
You will have to find some other way for the user to change their password, perhaps by using Kerberos & kpasswd.
If the user's account has expired, there isin't anything a user can do, except to have an adminstrator re-enable the account by changing the account expiration date.

ICloud/iTunes Account Locking out Active Directory Account [?]

The facts:
I have been having this problem for the past four+ months.
My work email address is my iTunes account name
My work AD account gets logged out most evenings, sometimes within an hour of leaving work, sometimes late at night
I know when my account is logged out because my iPhone will ask for my Exchange password, or I cannot get into Outlook Web Access
When my iTunes/iCloud account password is the same as my Active Directory password this does not happen. When this was the case earlier this year I went 90 days without a lockout. The day after my password expired and I changed my password - locked out again
Exchange recognizes two mobile devices, my iPad2 and my iPhone 4, as mobile ActiveSync clients
I have reset both of these devices, updated to the latest iOS and reinstalled and reconfigured my apps
This occurs even when neither of these devices has an active ActiveSync account set up to use my work Exchange server
The keyrings (Mac) and Credential Managers (PC) of all my home machines have been sanitized
Mail (Mac) and Outlook are not configured on my home machines, and they are not affiliated with the work domain in any way
From these facts it seems to me that the issue is:
There exists a machine attempting to reach my Exchange account using a password I have used in the past
If it is a computer that I have possession of, it must be an iDevice, because this behavior has still occurred when all others have been powered off
If it is an iDevice under my control then it is something in iCloud/iTunes, because it does not depend on having the Exchange account configured on either iDevice and those are the only applications with knowledge of my work email address
So,
If it is my iCloud/iTunes account then WHY in the name of all that is sacred is it hitting my work Exchange server and locking out my account?
I can think of no other -possible- devices or online services that have both that password, and knowledge of that email address. I remotely wiped an old phone that might have had the email account configured.
Help?

I would very much like to hear from someone at Apple regarding this as I'm having a very similar if not the exact same issue.

Is it possible to move or merge my local user account with an Active Directory account?

10.7.2 update now allows me to authenticate against AD, and I have a shiny new account on my mac. Is there any way to merge my local and AD accounts? Or link my local account to my AD account? Can I change the home directory of the AD account to point to my local account folder?

Gary,
Performance would be absolutely horrible if you hung a USB drive off an AEBS and used that as your home directory, wirelessly. You're going to be getting no more than about 10 MB/sec, or roughly 1/5 the speed (in the IDEAL case -- practically it's worse than that) of your current setup.
If you want to access the same email from multiple Macs, you should consider using IMAP. .Mac can do this -- and you can have up to 4 GB on the server, if you pay for it. Default is up to 1 GB, if you shrink your iDisk space to nothing.
Another alternative if you want to share something centrally is to use OS X Server and Portable Home Directories. This is pretty complicated for the home user, though, and requires OS X Server (minimum $499), a machine to run it on, and some good knowledge of Open Directory and AFP services. It works quite well for corporate clients though.
Otherwise, synching stuff across multiple machines may work. But don't even think about moving your whole home directory to a central network mounted drive, especially something as slow as a USB drive on an AEBS over wireless.

Creating Active Directory Accounts for vSphere 5.1 Services

To set up the management pieces of vSphere, I need to have an account or accounts created in Active Directory. I need to determine how many to create and what permissions they need.
In Single Sign on Server, I need to choose an account that vCenter server will use when it connects to SSO. I can use the default admin@system-domain. Or I can add an account that is configured in Active Directory. Or, I can also use an active directory group instead of an individual user. What is the best way to do this and if I use an AD account, what permissions does it need at the domain level and at the local level on the Single Sign on Server? (I'm using multisite mode, so I can't use local accounts)
In SQL Server, I need to choose an account to use for the SQL server service. Should this account be an active directory account or a local user account? If so, what permissions should be assigned to the account in Active Directory and what permissions should be assigned to it on the local machine? What AD group, if any should it be a part of? What local permissions does it need?
In vCenter Server, I need to choose an account to run the "vCenter Server Service" in. Is it best to use the default "system" account or to use an account from Active Directory, or a local account?
I'm trying to get a big picture of an AD account/group strategy to use that covers the main management pieces of vSphere - vCenter Server, Single Sign on, Inventory Service, Web Client Services.
For example, create one group called "vSphere Services", then create separate accounts for each management piece, and assign them specific permissions on specific systems. Or create separate groups for each management piece and assign permissions to the groups. Is it better to consolidate some of these user names or split them out? Any experiences / suggestions welcome. Thanks.

Hello,
For general services I use a service specific account within AD. This was before SSO and I use the same after SSO. SSO is used by only two services that I know about at the moment (Inventory Service and perhaps vCloud). However, there are many other service accounts that should be created. You want one account per service and I use AD for this, this way I can create a service account group and give it the appropriate roles and privileges. FOr example I have service accounts for:
VMware View
XenDesktop
vCops
HPSIM
Solarwinds
VMTurbo
NetApp
etc.
One service, one service account, each with either a general role or custom role depending on access requirements to vCenter.
For SSO, I to am waiting on general information, but I set mine up fairly basically to cover only those resources that make use of SSO. Since the vast majority of items do not use SSO, the rule still applies. Once SSO is supported by more than one or two tools, you still need to maintain that separation.
So I say yes, tie SSO to AD and do everything in one place, unfortunately, that is not very clear, or at least was not to me and these SSO issues are either beng fixed, documented, or both.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky aka Texiwill

Powershell Active Directory Account Expiration Script

I am putting together a script that creates a user account in AD, sets the password, adds groups, etc. The part I am having problems with is when the user selects the Contractor employee option and is prompted for the expiration date of the AD account.
The script will create the account, but the expiration date is not set in AD. Any suggestions?
Here's the code:
#Script to create Active Directory account
#Add the Active Directory Module if not already present
if (-not (Get-Module ActiveDirectory))
Import-Module ActiveDirectory -Force
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "======================================================" -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Computer Access"
Write-Host "Create Active Directory User Script"
Write-Host "PowerShell 3.0"
Write-Host "Version: 1.2"
Write-Host "Date: 4/14/2014"
Write-Host "Author: "
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Please review the created Active Directory Account" -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Yellow
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Base Business Unit Group Memberships are added only" -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Yellow
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "======================================================" -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
Write-Host ""
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "======================================================" -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
Write-Host "Creating Active Directory Account" -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Host "======================================================" -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
Write-Host ""
#Specify the target OU for new users
$targetOU = "OU=Personnel,OU=ETA,DC=eta,DC=state,DC=tx"
#Find the current domain info
$domdns = (Get-ADDomain).dnsroot # for UPN generation
#Set Account Variables
#Set Username with Dialogue Box
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$objForm.Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("Arial",10)
$objForm.Text = "Username"
$objForm.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(300,200)
$objForm.StartPosition = "CenterScreen"
$objForm.KeyPreview = $True
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Enter")
    {$global:setusername=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()}})
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Escape")
    {$objForm.Close()}})
$OKButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$OKButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,120)
$OKButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$OKButton.Text = "OK"
$OKButton.Add_Click({$global:setusername=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()})
$objForm.Controls.Add($OKButton)
$CancelButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$CancelButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(150,120)
$CancelButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$CancelButton.Text = "Cancel"
$CancelButton.Add_Click(
{$Looping=$False
$objForm.Close()
[environment]::Exit(0)
$objForm.Controls.Add($CancelButton)
$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,20)
$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,20)
$objLabel.Text = "Please enter the username for the account:"
$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel)
$objTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$objTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,40)
$objTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$objForm.Controls.Add($objTextBox)
$objForm.Topmost = $True
$objForm.Add_Shown({$objForm.Activate(); $objTextBox.focus()})
[void] $objForm.ShowDialog()
#If OK then set variable and continue
$samname = ($setusername | Out-String)
$samname = ($setusername) + ("")
function validateUser
    param(
    [string]$username
    #if the username is passed without domain\
    if(($username.StartsWith("domain\")) -eq $false)
        $user = Get-ADUser -Filter { SamAccountName -eq $username }
        if (!$user)
            return $false
        else
            return $true
    elseif(($username.StartsWith("domain\")) -eq $true)
        $username = ($username.Split("\")[1])
        $user = Get-ADUser -Filter { SamAccountName -eq $username }
        if (!$user)
            return $false
        else
            return $true
$usercheck = validateUser -username $samname
if($userCheck -eq $true) {
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
[Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("Username already exists in AD please check and retry",`
"Username Check", [Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons]::OK, [Windows.Forms.MessageBoxIcon]::Stop)
[environment]::Exit(0)
else {} #Continue
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "USERNAME has been set to" $samname -ForegroundColor Yellow
#Set User Accounts First Name
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$objForm.Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("Arial",10)
$objForm.Text = "First Name"
$objForm.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(300,200)
$objForm.StartPosition = "CenterScreen"
$objForm.KeyPreview = $True
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Enter")
    {$global:setfirstname=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()}})
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Escape")
    {$objForm.Close()}})
$OKButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$OKButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,120)
$OKButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$OKButton.Text = "OK"
$OKButton.Add_Click({$global:setfirstname=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()})
$objForm.Controls.Add($OKButton)
$CancelButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$CancelButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(150,120)
$CancelButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$CancelButton.Text = "Cancel"
$CancelButton.Add_Click(
{$Looping=$False
$objForm.Close()
[environment]::Exit(0)
$objForm.Controls.Add($CancelButton)
$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,20)
$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,20)
$objLabel.Text = "Please enter the users first name:"
$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel)
$objTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$objTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,40)
$objTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$objForm.Controls.Add($objTextBox)
$objForm.Topmost = $True
$objForm.Add_Shown({$objForm.Activate(); $objTextBox.focus()})
[void] $objForm.ShowDialog()
#If OK then set variable and continue
$givname = ($setfirstname | Out-String)
$givname = ("$setfirstname") + ("")
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "FIRST NAME has been set to" $givname -ForegroundColor Yellow
#Set User Accounts Last Name
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$objForm.Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("Arial",10)
$objForm.Text = "Last Name"
$objForm.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(300,200)
$objForm.StartPosition = "CenterScreen"
$objForm.KeyPreview = $True
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Enter")
    {$global:setlastname=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()}})
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Escape")
    {$objForm.Close()}})
$OKButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$OKButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,120)
$OKButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$OKButton.Text = "OK"
$OKButton.Add_Click({$global:setlastname=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()})
$objForm.Controls.Add($OKButton)
$CancelButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$CancelButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(150,120)
$CancelButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$CancelButton.Text = "Cancel"
$CancelButton.Add_Click(
{$Looping=$False
$objForm.Close()
[environment]::Exit(0)
$objForm.Controls.Add($CancelButton)
$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,20)
$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,20)
$objLabel.Text = "Please enter the users last name:"
$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel)
$objTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$objTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,40)
$objTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$objForm.Controls.Add($objTextBox)
$objForm.Topmost = $True
$objForm.Add_Shown({$objForm.Activate(); $objTextBox.focus()})
[void] $objForm.ShowDialog()
#If OK then set variable and continue
$surname = ($setlastname | Out-String)
$surname = ("$setlastname") + ("")
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "LAST NAME has been set to" $surname -ForegroundColor Yellow
#Set the Department Number for the Active Directory Account
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$objForm.Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("Arial",10)
$objForm.Text = "Cost Center"
$objForm.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(300,200)
$objForm.StartPosition = "CenterScreen"
$objForm.KeyPreview = $True
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Enter")
    {$global:setcostcode=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()}})
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Escape")
    {$objForm.Close()}})
$OKButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$OKButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,120)
$OKButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$OKButton.Text = "OK"
$OKButton.Add_Click({$global:setcostcode=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()})
$objForm.Controls.Add($OKButton)
$CancelButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$CancelButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(150,120)
$CancelButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$CancelButton.Text = "Cancel"
$CancelButton.Add_Click(
{$Looping=$False
$objForm.Close()
[environment]::Exit(0)
$objForm.Controls.Add($CancelButton)
$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,20)
$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,20)
$objLabel.Text = "Please enter the cost center for the account:"
$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel)
$objTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$objTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,40)
$objTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$objForm.Controls.Add($objTextBox)
$objForm.Topmost = $True
$objForm.Add_Shown({$objForm.Activate(); $objTextBox.focus()})
[void] $objForm.ShowDialog()
#If OK then set variable and continue
$costcode = ($setcostcode | Out-String)
$costcode = ("$setcostcode") + ("")
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "COSTCODE has been set to" $costcode -ForegroundColor Yellow
#This creates a checkbox called Employee
$objTypeCheckbox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Checkbox
$objTypeCheckbox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,220)
$objTypeCheckbox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(500,20)
$objTypeCheckbox.Text = "Employee"
$objTypeCheckbox.TabIndex = 4
$objForm.Controls.Add($objTypeCheckbox)
#This creates a checkbox called Citrix User
$objCitrixUserCheckbox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Checkbox
$objCitrixUserCheckbox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,240)
$objCitrixUserCheckbox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(500,20)
$objCitrixUserCheckbox.Text = "Citrix User"
$objCitrixUserCheckbox.TabIndex = 5
$objForm.Controls.Add($objCitrixUserCheckbox)
#Set Permanent or Contractor (Expiration Date)
[void][reflection.assembly]::Load("System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")
[void][reflection.assembly]::Load("System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()
$form1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Form'
$datetimepicker1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.DateTimePicker'
$radiobuttonPermanent = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.RadioButton'
$radiobuttonContractor = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.RadioButton'
$buttonOK = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'
$InitialFormWindowState = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState'
$radiobuttonContractor_CheckedChanged={
    if($radiobuttonContractor.Checked){
        $datetimepicker1.Visible=$true
   }else{
        $datetimepicker1.Visible=$false
$Form_StateCorrection_Load=
   #Correct the initial state of the form to prevent the .Net maximized form issue
   $form1.WindowState = $InitialFormWindowState
$Form_Cleanup_FormClosed=
   #Remove all event handlers from the controls
   try
       $radiobuttonContractor.remove_CheckedChanged($radiobuttonContractor_CheckedChanged)
       $form1.remove_Load($FormEvent_Load)
       $form1.remove_Load($Form_StateCorrection_Load)
       $form1.remove_FormClosed($Form_Cleanup_FormClosed)
   catch [Exception]
$form1.Controls.Add($datetimepicker1)
$form1.Controls.Add($radiobuttonPermanent)
$form1.Controls.Add($radiobuttonContractor)
$form1.Controls.Add($buttonOK)
$form1.AcceptButton = $buttonOK
$form1.ClientSize = '508, 262'
$form1.FormBorderStyle = 'FixedDialog'
$form1.MaximizeBox = $False
$form1.MinimizeBox = $False
$form1.Name = "form1"
$form1.StartPosition = 'CenterScreen'
$form1.Text = "Form"
$form1.add_Load($FormEvent_Load)
# datetimepicker1
$datetimepicker1.Location = '160, 91'
$datetimepicker1.Name = "datetimepicker1"
$datetimepicker1.Size = '200, 20'
$datetimepicker1.TabIndex = 3
$datetimepicker1.Visible = $False
# radiobuttonPermanent
$radiobuttonPermanent.Location = '33, 57'
$radiobuttonPermanent.Name = "radiobuttonPermanent"
$radiobuttonPermanent.Size = '104, 24'
$radiobuttonPermanent.TabIndex = 2
$radiobuttonPermanent.TabStop = $True
$radiobuttonPermanent.Text = "Permanent"
$radiobuttonPermanent.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $True
# radiobuttonContractor
$radiobuttonContractor.Location = '33, 87'
$radiobuttonContractor.Name = "radiobuttonContractor"
$radiobuttonContractor.Size = '104, 24'
$radiobuttonContractor.TabIndex = 1
$radiobuttonContractor.TabStop = $True
$radiobuttonContractor.Text = "Contractor"
$radiobuttonContractor.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $True
$radiobuttonContractor.add_CheckedChanged($radiobuttonContractor_CheckedChanged)
# buttonOK
$buttonOK.Anchor = 'Bottom, Right'
$buttonOK.DialogResult = 'OK'
$buttonOK.Location = '421, 227'
$buttonOK.Name = "buttonOK"
$buttonOK.Size = '75, 23'
$buttonOK.TabIndex = 0
$buttonOK.Text = "OK"
$buttonOK.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $True
#endregion Generated Form Code
#Save the initial state of the form
$InitialFormWindowState = $form1.WindowState
#Init the OnLoad event to correct the initial state of the form
$form1.add_Load($Form_StateCorrection_Load)
#Clean up the control events
$form1.add_FormClosed($Form_Cleanup_FormClosed)
#Show the Form
$form1.ShowDialog()
#Set the password for the new user account
#Change P@$$w0rd to whatever you want the account password to be
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$objForm.Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("Arial",10)
$objForm.Text = "Password"
$objForm.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(300,200)
$objForm.StartPosition = "CenterScreen"
$objForm.KeyPreview = $True
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Enter")
    {$global:setpassword=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()}})
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Escape")
    {$objForm.Close()}})
$OKButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$OKButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,120)
$OKButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$OKButton.Text = "OK"
$OKButton.Add_Click({$global:setpassword=$objTextBox.Text;$objForm.Close()})
$objForm.Controls.Add($OKButton)
$CancelButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$CancelButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(150,120)
$CancelButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$CancelButton.Text = "Cancel"
$CancelButton.Add_Click(
{$Looping=$False
$objForm.Close()
[environment]::Exit(0)
$objForm.Controls.Add($CancelButton)
$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,20)
$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,40)
$objLabel.Text = "Please enter the password you wish to set. Press Enter for P@SSw0rd:"
$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel)
$objTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$objTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,60)
$objTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$objForm.Controls.Add($objTextBox)
$objForm.Topmost = $True
$objForm.Add_Shown({$objForm.Activate(); $objTextBox.focus()})
[void] $objForm.ShowDialog()
#If OK then set password and continue
$userpassword = ($setpassword | Out-String)
$userpassword = ("$setpassword") + ("")
if ($userpassword -eq "") {$userpassword = 'P@SSw0rd'}
$password = (ConvertTo-SecureString $userpassword -AsPlainText -Force)
#Set Variables for New-ADUser cmdlet
$dplname = "$surname, $givname"
$upname = "$givname.$surname" + "@" + "$domdns"
$email = "$givname" + "." + "$surname" + "@eta.state.tx.us"
$office = "WBT"
$description = "$costcode"
$description2 = "611IS - Permanent"
$description3 = "611PM - Permanent"
$description4 = "501 - Permanent"
##$loginscript = "yourloginscriptname"
$servername = "teafs2"
$homedir = "\\$($servername)\User\$($samname)"
$homedirpath = "\\$($servername)\User\$($samname)"
$Company= "ETA"
$department = "yourdepartment"
$department4 = "School Finance"
$departmentnumber = "" + "-" + "$costcode"
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "HOME SERVER is" $servername -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "HOME DIRECTORY has been set to" $homedir -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "DEPARTMENT has been set to" $department -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "DESCRIPTION has been set to" $departmentnumber -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Host ""
#Create Active Directory Account
New-ADUser -Name $dplname -SamAccountName $samname -DisplayName $dplname `
-givenname $givname -surname $surname -userprincipalname $upname -emailaddress $email `
-Path $targetou -Enabled $true -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true -Department $department `
-OtherAttributes @{'departmentNumber'="$departmentnumber"} -Company $Company -HomeDrive "H" -HomeDirectory $homedir `
-Description $description -Office $office -ScriptPath $loginscript -AccountPassword $password `
#Add User to Active Directory Groups Based on Description Field
If ((Get-ADUser $samname -Properties description).description -eq $description2) {
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=InformationSystemsPrintGroup,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=InformationSystemsOUDataGroup,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=InformationSystemsNetworkAccess,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=Mail users,OU=Groups,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
If ((Get-ADUser $samname -Properties description).description -eq $description3) {
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=ProjectMgmtNetworkAccess,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=ProjectMgmtOUDataGroup,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=ProjectMgmtPrintGroup,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=Cognos ETASE Dev-Test-Prod,OU=Groups,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=PMO ALL,OU=Distribution Groups,OU=Mailbox accounts,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=PMO Permanent,OU=Distribution Groups,OU=Mailbox accounts,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=Mail users,OU=Groups,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
If ((Get-ADUser $samname -Properties description).description -eq $description4) {
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=SchoolFinancePrintGroup,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=SchoolFinanceOUDataGroup,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=SchoolFinanceNetworkAccess,CN=Groups,OU=ETA,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "CN=Mail users,OU=Groups,DC=tea,DC=state,DC=tx" -Member $samname
#Does the user require a mailbox?
$mailbox = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell
$intAnswer = $mailbox.popup("Does this user require a mailbox?", `
0,"Create Mailbox",32+4)
If ($intAnswer -eq 6) {
    Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "YourADGroupName5" -Member $samname
    $mailbox.popup("User added to EMail Provisioning Group", `
    0,"Created",64+0)
} else {
    $mailbox.popup("User has not been added to the EMail Provisioning Group", `
    0,"Not Created",64+0)
#Does the user require a LYNC Account?
$lyncaccount = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell
$intAnswer = $lyncaccount.popup("Does this user require a LYNC Account?", `
0,"Create LYNC Account",32+4)
If ($intAnswer -eq 6) {
    Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "YourADGroupName6" -Member $samname
    $lyncaccount.popup("User added to LYNC Provisioning Group", `
    0,"Created",64+0)
} else {
    $lyncaccount.popup("User has not been added to the LYNC Provisioning Group", `
    0,"Not Created",64+0)
#Create Home Directory and Set Permissions on Home Directory
New-Item -path $homedirpath -type directory
$acl = Get-ACL -path $homedirpath
$permission = "yourdomainname\$($samname)","Modify","ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit","None","Allow"
$accessrule = new-object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule $permission
$acl.SetAccessRule($accessrule)
$acl | Set-ACL -path $homedirpath
##Set Share Permissions on Home Directory
$Computer = $servername
$Class = "Win32_Share"
$Method = "Create"
$name = $sharename
$path = $sharedirpath
$description = ""
$sd = ([WMIClass] "\\$Computer\root\cimv2:Win32_SecurityDescriptor").CreateInstance()
$ACE = ([WMIClass] "\\$Computer\root\cimv2:Win32_ACE").CreateInstance()
$Trustee = ([WMIClass] "\\$Computer\root\cimv2:Win32_Trustee").CreateInstance()
$Trustee.Name = "EVERYONE"
$Trustee.Domain = $Null
$Trustee.SID = @(1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)
$ace.AccessMask = 2032127
$ace.AceFlags = 3
$ace.AceType = 0
$ACE.Trustee = $Trustee
$sd.DACL += $ACE.psObject.baseobject
$mc = [WmiClass]"\\$Computer\ROOT\CIMV2:$Class"
$InParams = $mc.psbase.GetMethodParameters($Method)
$InParams.Access = $sd
$InParams.Description = $description
$InParams.MaximumAllowed = $Null
$InParams.Name = $name
$InParams.Password = $Null
$InParams.Path = $path
$InParams.Type = [uint32]0
$R = $mc.PSBase.InvokeMethod($Method, $InParams, $Null)
switch ($($R.ReturnValue))
0 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Success"; break}
2 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Access Denied" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
8 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Unknown Failure" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
9 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Invalid Name" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
10 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Invalid Level" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
21 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Invalid Parameter" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
22 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Duplicate Share" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
23 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Reedirected Path" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
24 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Unknown Device or Directory" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
25 {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:Network Name Not Found" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}
default {Write-Host "Share:$name Path:$path Result:*** Unknown Error ***" -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor yellow;break}

Would you be able to show me how it's done?
Here's an example:
$date = Read-Host 'Enter a date (e.g. 4/23/14)'
Write-Host "Original string: $date"
$dateTime = [datetime]$date
Write-Host "DateTime object: $dateTime"
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Convert Open Directory mobile accounts to Active Directory mobile accounts

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Implementing Active Directory, getting rid of Open Directory.
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