Title card: Standing Up FreeIPA When Everything in the Lab Is Linux

Standing Up FreeIPA When Everything in the Lab Is Linux

My lab has no Windows in it, and a directory should not be the reason to add some. FreeIPA gave me a Kerberos realm and an internal CA on a thin client, and a DNS migration that took the longest.

Title card: Knowing What Breaks Before You Turn Off RC4

Knowing What Breaks Before You Turn Off RC4

Flipping msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes is one line. I have never once been nervous about the line. I am nervous about the call two days later: a nightly job stopped, and nobody can say why. The attribute is trivial. The blast radius is not.

Title card: From Plain Text Passwords to PowerShell SecretStore: Securing Your AD Test Environment

From Plain Text Passwords to PowerShell SecretStore: Securing Your AD Test Environment

My AD test environment module still had service account passwords sitting in plain text. This adds PowerShell SecretStore for setup, storage and retrieval, without making the lab harder to spin up.

Title card: Active Directory Test Data That Doesn't Suck

Active Directory Test Data That Doesn't Suck

A PowerShell module that fills a lab domain with a thousand-plus realistic users, groups and OUs in about a minute, and tears them back down cleanly when you are done.

Title card: Understanding Orphaned SIDs in Active Directory

Understanding Orphaned SIDs in Active Directory

Deleting an AD account does not remove the security references pointing at it; they sit in ACLs as orphaned SIDs. An over-engineered PowerShell solution to find them at scale, with batching, logging and full test coverage.

Title card: Modernizing Your Active Directory: A PowerShell Solution for Kerberos Encryption Migration

Modernizing Your Active Directory: A PowerShell Solution for Kerberos Encryption Migration

Kerberoasting depends on RC4 still being available. How to inventory encryption types across the domain and automate the move to AES without locking anyone out.