Locating All of the Unlinked GPOs in Your Domain

Have you ever wanted to identify all of the Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in your domain that are not currently linked to any Organizational Units (OU)? This was the task I was given today by my project manager. He wanted me to identify any of our GPOs that were unlinked. We follow a certain naming scheme so that is how we identify ours. Well PowerShell made it so easy that I obtained ALL of the GPOs in the domain that were unlinked so I sent the list to our Active Directory (AD) team lead. PowerShell rocks!

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Using PowerShell Default Parameter Values to Prevent Unfortunate Accidents

If you have ever encountered the unfortunate circumstance of accidentally shutting down or rebooting your computer with PowerShell I am here to give you a tip you will definitely want to remember. First of all this solution requires version 3 so if you are still on version 2 then you will need to stash this one away.

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