Have you ever needed a list of all of your users and the Security Groups they belong to? Often organizations find themselves with a business need to periodically report the permissions that users have in the environment. This is usually for auditing or information assurance purposes. Whatever your reasons, below this article will cover how to write a PowerShell script that can be used to schedule the generation of a CSV file that contains a list of all users and their group membership. ​

Ever had an outage while you were away from the office and you didn't (or couldn't) check your email from your mobile phone? What if your environment could notify administrators via SMS (text) messages about things going on in the environment? It can! For free! If you can't afford to purchase a more robust monitoring and notification system, SMS notifications can be automated internally for free. In this article we'll go over how to send SMS messages using an SMTP server and PowerShell.