We were introduced with a rather strange issue where a website using an internal URL with an SSL certificate was deemed invalid by Google Chrome for about 30% of the company. Both the website and root certificates are not expired and available through the Windows Certificate Store. Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer (I know,…
Disable and remove inactive accounts in Active Directory
Quite a few companies don’t have proper account management software to maintain their users in Active Directory . Accounts that remain active while the employees already left the company can be a security risk. This little script will disable and remove inactive accounts. The script performs the following actions:– Disable accounts that have not been…
Use the Active Directory PowerShell module without installing RSAT
During the creation of a new custom Azure Devops extension for one of my customers, I bumped into the challenge of querying Active Directory. This had to be done on any of the many build servers, but installing Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) on every build server was not an option. Therefore the AD PowerShell…
Connect Azure Devops to SonarQube with self-signed certificates
When you are running SonarQube on-premise, it is most likely that you want to use a self-signed certificate to keep the tool secured. Unfortunately, SonarQube is a Java based application, so getting it up and running is not as straight-forward as expected. In my case, after configuring SQ for HTTPS, the SonarQube extension for Azure…