ACL: Automate Active Directory Downloads

Here’s a way to automate the download of data from Active Directory (AD), specifically group members, into ACL using adfind and the ACL Execute command.

I’ll walk you through it step-by-step.

This was posted before ACL released their own Active Directory driver, which I still haven’t figured out.

Even if you don’t use ACL, you might gain a better understanding of AD and LDAP in general….

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How to Ping a Server

If you’re an IT auditor or security analyst and you don’t know how to ping a server, then I have some words for you:

LEARN HOW!

So let’s do it.

I’m assuming most of my readers already know how to do this. If so, please answer the poll question at the bottom. If not, please read on, then answer the poll question. Thanks!

ACL: How to Create Your Own Scripts

Creating scripts (and editing them) is not as hard as many of you believe them to be.

Sure, it takes practice and time to learn the basics, but YOU can do it.

If you don’t learn scripting, you are NOT using ACL to it’s fullest, nor are you making the best use of your time.

Optimize ACL Scripts

Have you been following the “Optimizing Script Performance” series on the ACL Blog? aclkevin has been offering some great tips.

In case you missed them:

ACL tip: Rerun a Join Easily

Rerunning an ACL join command is much easier than most people realize.  And everyone using ACL screws up joining two tables more often than he’ll admit.

It goes like this: You painfully select the primary keys, the secondary keys, the primary fields, and the secondary fields, enter the output table name, and run the join. The join ran successfully, but you forgot to add one primary field or to adjust the options on the More tab. Now you have to do it all again. Or do you?