With the advent of Windows PowerShell, performing bulk tasks just gets easier and easier. Consider a scenario where you have a bunch of Domain Local groups that you need to convert to Global\u2026or any other type of conversion. This is a task that can take a large amount of time to complete manually, even with copious amounts of coffee and House of Cards on the TV. Fortunately, a few lines of PowerShell can make short work of this.<\/p>\n
Consider the aforementioned Domain Local to Global conversion. As the astute reader will know, a Domain Local to Global conversion isn\u2019t a one-step process. Each group must first be converted to Universal. Why this caveat exists is far too detailed to discuss here, but Microsoft have a pretty ok writeup of it\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n # Get all the groups in the OU we’re targeting<\/span><\/p>\n $groups = Get-ADGroup -Filter * -SearchBase “OU=File Shares,OU=Groups,DC=Contoso,DC=com”<\/span><\/p>\n # Recurse through each group<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0# Make it universal<\/span><\/span> \u00a0 # Make it global<\/span><\/span> With the advent of Windows PowerShell, performing bulk tasks just gets easier and easier. Consider a scenario where you have a bunch of Domain Local groups that you need to convert to Global\u2026or any other type of conversion. This is a task that can take a large amount of time to complete manually, even with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad","category-powershell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nForeach ($group in $groups) {<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0\u00a0$group | Set-ADGroup -GroupScope 2<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0\u00a0$group | Set-ADGroup -GroupScope 1<\/span>
\n}<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"