Up until recently, I was familiar with the idea of client pulling down information from a database. A database requires updates, patching, and maintenance. Usually, I’d be the one doing all that care and feeding, additional to taking proper care[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I came across a situation the other day. In my Azure Tenant, I have a VM, a domain controller that hosts, well… my domain. I only use it for testing, most recently I was doing some SSPR testing. I only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a few different methods to import users into your Azure tenant. In the Azure Active Directory Portal https://aad.portal.azure.com -> Users -> Bulk Operations -> Bulk create Or you can use a little powershell This will focus on the powershell[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review of the Synology DS420+
The last firmware released for the DNS323 was back in 2013. That was quite a while ago, and it wasn’t great. It lacked SMB2, ssh out of the box, and no development of popular applications. I tried Alt-F on a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is going to be a little different. As per usual, we need to follow our regular set of steps when dealing with a large amount of data that needs validation. Export list of users into CSV format Add new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hostile takeover? All employees of a department being reassigned? We won’t go into ‘how to disable way lots of employees because your upper management said ‘because we told you”. So, we’ll go into changing departments for the entire company. There’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re like me, you built a new AD for testing. And if you’re also like me, you imported a whole bunch of users into your AD. Some of those users likely had passwords that didn’t quite meet the domain[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is part of my ‘Finding all Disabled users in AD’ from an earlier post. The backstory is, I used some powershell to import about 1100 dummy users into a newly created AD. Out of 1100 users, 300+ became disabled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Need to find all the disabled users in your AD? it’s odd that the built in AD Tools do not have this option. PowerShell to the rescue! All these commands are documented in the Microsoft Get-ADUser cmdlet. I’ve added some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What are the situations you’ll need lots of Dummy AD data? When you want to run some awesomely crafted PowerShell AD scripts, that’s where. I was in a situation a few months ago where I needed replicate a VERY large[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Getting caught up? Part 1 – Creating a simple GUI Part 2 – Adding variables, added functionality Part 3 – (that’s where we are) In this post, I’ll be adding some error checking in the form of a function. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Already seen this part? Check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part3 In part 1, we covered the very basics. A one-line Get-ADUser query, a simple form with one button and output textbox. In this entry, we’ll add more functionality[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Create your first Powershell GUI, Part 1: the Basics with simple tools and built in Windows 10 functionality
The Setup Host: Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver” releaseSoftware: Google Chrome Original article found on linuxbabe Super handy, and secure way to ssh into your Linux Box at home. This uses the Android Google Authenticator for the QR code, generated right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Setup Host: Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver” releaseSoftware: Google Chrome I thought this was weird: I couldn’t actually download the Chrome browser. Couldn’t do it from firefox (the Ubuntu default), or chromium (the open-source O.G Chrome package). I thought that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is going to focus on configuring an Oracle Virtualbox VM to do a few things:-make it so the host, and local host network can see, ping, remote and use fileshares to the Oracle Box guest VM-Enable the Oracle box[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Volume Shadow copy has saved my butt on file, exchange, and SQL servers. Typically, IT departments discourage previous versions on desktops mainly because it opens up issues with disk space and if it’s really worth saving or rescuing an MP3[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Group Policy to set default Windows 7 Account pictures.
The Cryptolocker virus out there in the wild and I’ve seen it happen on a few computers and it’s certainly not pretty. The details are sorrid, but in a nutshell what happens is a crytolocker virus gets onto your computer,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the new Office getting pushed out, I was running into problems with PST files, namely I didn’t want them in my environment cluttering things up and causing a ruckus on local computers. After a bit of research[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been using Google Drive to sync files for some time now, because it’s great having 15GB of storage sitting in the cloud that I can access anytime. I’m not here to point out the merits of having a google account that needlessly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The other day I was tasked with finding all the duplicates in a large network share. Large as in: 2TB worth of company data. The previous IT company wasn’t so good at house cleaning so I was given the assignment[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In part 1 of this tutorial, I stepped through configuration of the Cisco Equipment and configuration of the Network Policy Server with Certificate. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to tie it all up in Group Policy. This tutorial[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…