Install Firefox with Powershell

Install Firefox with Powershell

Need to deploy the latest version of firefox to 1000 machines, Here is a little powerhouse script that can do just that. It’s similar to my last script (Gimp) as it downloads directly from the web. This time we don’t have to parse out a website since Modzilla has it laid out before us.

The Script

$FirefoxSource = "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=win64&lang=en-US"
$Installer = "$ENV:TEMP\ModzillaFirefox.exe"
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $FirefoxSource -OutFile $Installer
Get-Process -Name "*firefox*" | Stop-Process -Force
Start-Process -FilePath $Installer -ArgumentList "/s" -Verb runas -wait
Remove-Item $Installer

The Breakdown

The source is awesome. We are downloading directly from the site with their latest 64-bit product. This time we are going with the temporary file and then downloading the file with invoke-webrequest. Then we start the process of installing it with the /s flag which means silent. Since we are coming from the temp folder I threw in the runas flag to run it as the system. This way it installs for all users. Next, we set the wait flag to install the system. From everything I have read, we don’t need to uninstall the previous version to install the newest version. We do however have to stop the process that’s why we have a get process and stop process above. Finally, we remove the installer. That’s it. A lot simpler than Gimp.

Install Gimp with Powershell

Install Gimp with Powershell

This little script installs the latest version of gimp 2.10 onto your Windows machine. Let’s take a look at the script and then break it down.

The Script

$DownloadPath = "C:\Temp\Gimp"
If (!(Test-Path -Path "C:\Temp\")) {New-Item -Path c:\ -Name Temp -ItemType Directory }
If (!(Test-Path -Path "C:\Temp\Gimp\")) {New-Item -Path c:\Temp -Name Gimp -ItemType Directory }
$URL = "https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.10/windows/"
$Gimp = Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri $URL -SessionVariable websession
$Links = $Gimp.Links | Where-Object {$_.href -like "*.exe"} | select-object -Last 1
$URLDownload = "$URL$($Links.href)"
$DownloadName = "$DownloadPath\Gimp.exe"
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $URLDownload -OutFile $DownloadName
if (Test-path "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2") {
    Get-Process -Name "Gimp*" | Stop-Process
    Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\uninst\unins000.exe" -ArgumentList "/VERYSILENT" -wait
}
Start-Process -FilePath $DownloadName -ArgumentList '/VERYSILENT /NORESTART /ALLUSERS' -wait
Remove-Item $DownloadName

The Breakdown

The first thing we do is set up the path we want to make. Then we test to see if the path exists. If they don’t, we make them. I’m using temp in this cause because I will be deploying this to 2000+ machines. We will remove the installer afterward. I want the Temp folder to existing afterward for future deployments.

$DownloadPath = "C:\Temp\Gimp"
If (!(Test-Path -Path "C:\Temp\")) {New-Item -Path c:\ -Name Temp -ItemType Directory }
If (!(Test-Path -Path "C:\Temp\Gimp\")) {New-Item -Path c:\Temp -Name Gimp -ItemType Directory }

Next, we grab the URL we want to work with This is the gimp’s official download portal. This portal is by default Oldest to newest when you pull from it using Powershell.

$URL = "https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.10/windows/"

Then we use the Invoke-webrequest to grab the website as we did in a previous post. From there we grab all of the links. In this case, since it’s a repo, they are all download links except for 2. We only want the exes of the list, so we use a where-object to find those. Then we select the last 1 as it is the newest version.

$Gimp = Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri $URL -SessionVariable websession
$Links = $Gimp.Links | Where-Object {$_.href -like "*.exe"} | select-object -Last 1

Now we need to build our URL and our Path. This is some string controls. Notice the $($Something.Something) in this code. When you deal with an array in a string and want to grab a sub item, you need to call it out with the $().

$URLDownload = "$URL$($Links.href)"
$DownloadName = "$DownloadPath\Gimp.exe"

Next we download the Gimp 2.10 version we are wanting with another invoke-webrequest. This time we select the Outfile tab.

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $URLDownload -OutFile $DownloadName

Now we want to uninstall the pervious version of Gimp. Since gimp doesn’t show up in the win32_products, we go to it manually in the file system. Newer gimps host themselves inside the program files > gimp 2. So we search to see if that folder exists with a test-path. If it does, we then check to see if gimp is running. Then kill it with fire… ok, not fire, but force. Gimp is awesome about putting an uninstaller inside the file system. So we will use that. It’s located in the Gimp 2 > Uninst > Unins000.exe. Which can be triggered with a /verysilent parameter to keep it quiet. We do this with a start process and we use a flag -wait to wait on it to uninstall.

if (Test-path "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2") {
    Get-Process -Name "Gimp*" | Stop-Process -Force
    Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\uninst\unins000.exe" -ArgumentList "/VERYSILENT" -Wait
}

Then we start the install of the new gimp with the start-process again. We use the Download Name we made eailer with an argument list of /verysilent /norestart /allusers and a -wait.

Start-Process -FilePath $DownloadName -ArgumentList '/VERYSILENT /NORESTART /ALLUSERS' -Wait

Finally we remove the installer with a remote-item.

Remove-Item $DownloadName

That’s all it takes yall. I hope this is helpful to you.

Webroot Deployment

Webroot Deployment

In this article, I will guide you through the process of deploying webroot via Group Policy. This is a fairly straightforward process with only a little editing of the MSI. I am assuming you know how to download the MSI from the webroot portal. The portal changes often, so, I will leave this part out. If you are ready, throw on your group policy pins, and let’s get started.

Super Orca

The first thing you will need is the Super Orca. You can download it here, link. Once you get super orca installed, we will be able to download and set up the webroot MSI.

  1. Open Super Orca
  2. Open the Webroot MSI.
  3. Click the Property On the left (Red Block).
  4. Click GUILIC (Green Block)
  5. Enter the Key Number
  6. Click File
  7. Click Save As
  8. Save as a different name. ALWAYS KEEP THE ORIGINAL!

Shared Folder

Now you have the MSI ready. You need to place it into a shared folder location. This location has to be accessible to every computer in the company as a minimum of read-only. Make sure the share is shared! I can’t tell you how many times I made this mistake. If it’s shared, good, make sure some of the clients can reach it.

Group Policy

Now we have the MSI ready to go. It’s time for the group policy. It’s a very simple computer policy. In my experience, a lot of IT managers don’t want AVs on servers. So, this tutorial will include a wmi filter. Let’s get to it.

  1. Open Group Policy.
  2. Create a new policy and name it Workstation Webroot Deployment
  3. Right click the policy and select edit
  4. Computer > Policies > Software Settings > Software Installation
  5. Right Click and select New.
  6. Select the file for the installer.
  7. Click Ok
  8. Exit the policy

Now the WMI Filter.

  1. Double click the policy
  2. Right Click the WMI Filter (Purple Arrow)
  3. Click Add (Red Arrow)
  4. Enter: select * from win32_operatingsystem where producttype = 1
    1. The numbers mean:
      1. Workstation
      2. Domain Controller
      3. Server
  5. Click Ok
  6. Under the WMI Filter Select the WMI Object.

All that is left is linking the GPO. Now you can link it wherever you want. Most orgs have an OU just for workstations and one for servers just for this case. It doesn’t matter where you link it the WMI filter will ignore servers and only hit the workstations.

As always, if you have questions, feel free to ask. If you ever see anything that is wrong, feel free to reach out and correct me. Thank you for reading.

Resource – SHD Get ACL

Resource – SHD Get ACL

Ever need to combine Get-childitem and Get-ACL while only pulling the access information and users? Well, here we are. I hope you all can use it well.

function Get-SHDACL {
    [cmdletbinding()]
    param (
        [parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$Path,
        [string]$Filter,
        [switch]$Recurse,
        [switch]$Directory,
        [switch]$File
    )
    begin {
        if ($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey("filter")) {
            if ($File) {
                if ($Directory) {
                    if ($Recurse) {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse -Directory -File -Filter $Filter
                    } else {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Directory -File -Filter $Filter
                    }
                } else {
                    if ($Recurse) {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse -File -Filter $Filter
                    } else {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -File -Filter $Filter
                    }
                }
            } else {
                if ($Directory) {
                    if ($Recurse) {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse -Directory -filter $Filter
                    } else {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Directory -Filter $Filter
                    }
                } else {
                    if ($Recurse) {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse -Filter $Filter
                    } else {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter $Filter
                    }
                }
            }
        } else {
            if ($File) {
                if ($Directory) {
                    if ($Recurse) {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse -Directory -File
                    } else {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Directory -File
                    }
                } else {
                    if ($Recurse) {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse -File
                    } else {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -File
                    }
                }
            } else {
                if ($Directory) {
                    if ($Recurse) {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse -Directory
                    } else {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Directory
                    }
                } else {
                    if ($Recurse) {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse
                    } else {
                        $SubPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    Process {
        
        foreach ($Sub in $SubPath) {
            
            $ACLinfo = Get-Acl -Path $sub.FullName
            $Return += foreach ($ACL in $ACLinfo.Access) {
                [pscustomobject]@{
                    Path             = $Sub.FullName
                    FileSystemRights = $ACL.FileSystemRights
                    ID               = $ACL.IdentityReference
                    Type             = $ACL.AccessControlType
                    Inherited        = $ACL.IsInherited
                }
            }
        }
    }
    end {
        $Return
    }
}

Exchange Online – Mailbox Size Audit

Exchange Online – Mailbox Size Audit

Here is a little powerhouse script I wrote to audit the mailbox sizes. The focus recently is to see who’s mailbox sizes are about to be over and if it’s the deleted folder. I can’t show you all of the scripts, but I can show you part of it. This part will pull the data down in such a way that you can view the mailbox sizes, who has the largest mailboxes, what folder is the largest in those mailboxes, and what their deleted folder is sitting at. Let us take a look at the script itself.

The Script

function Get-SHDEXOMailboxSizeAudit {
    [cmdletbinding()]
    param (
        [pscredential]$Credential
    )
    Begin {
        
        #Installs required modules
        Write-Verbose "Installing required modules"
        if (!(Get-InstallEdModule ExchangeOnlineManagement)) { Install-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement }

        Write-Verbose "Checking and importing required modules"
        # Starts importanting required modules
        if (!(Get-Command Connect-ExchangeOnline)) { Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement }

    }
    process {
        
        #Connecting to exchange. Grabing credentials. 
        if (!($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('Credential'))) {
            $Credential = (Get-Credential) 
        }
        Connect-ExchangeOnline -credential $Credential
 
        #Grabs all the mailboxes at once. As this report will look at all the mailboxes. 
        $Mailboxes = Get-Mailbox

        #Starts looping through each mailbox
        For ($M = 0; $M -le $Mailboxes.count; $M++) {

            Write-Verbose "Gathering Info on: $($Mailboxes[$M].UserPrincipalName)"

            #Grabs the mailbox stats.
            $Stats = Get-EXOMailboxStatistics $mailboxes[$M].UserPrincipalName
            $FolderStats = Get-EXOMailboxFolderStatistics $mailboxes[$M].UserPrincipalName

            #Starts looping through those folders to get their sizes. 
            $MainFolderStats = foreach ($Folder in $FolderStats) {
                $FolderSize = [math]::Round((($Folder.FolderSize.split('(')[1].split(' ')[0] -replace ',', '') / 1gb), 2)
                [pscustomobject]@{
                    Name = $Folder.name
                    Size = $FolderSize
                }
            }

            #Adds this information to the mailbox object
            $Mailboxes[$M] | add-member -Name "Statistics" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $Stats
            $Mailboxes[$M] | add-member -Name "FolderStats" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $MainFolderStats
        }

        #Creates a return value. 
        $Return = foreach ($Mail in $Mailboxes) {

            #Starts looking at mailboxes that are not the discovery mailbox.
            if (!($mail.UserPrincipalName -like "DiscoverySearchMailbox*")) {

                #Grabs the deleted folder as that is a folder we want to see in this report. 
                $Deleted = $Mail.FolderStats | where-object { $_.name -like "Deleted Items" }

                #Grabs the largest folder. If  it's not the deleted folder, then we might want to increase their mailbox sizes.
                $LargestFolder = $Mail.FolderStats | Sort-Object Size -Descending | select-object -first 1 

                #Doing some math on a string. The string format (# bytes). Thus, we work the string to get the bytes. Divide and round. 
                $Size = [math]::Round(($Mail.Statistics.TotalItemSize.value.tostring().split('(')[1].split(' ')[0].replace(',', '') / 1gb), 2)

                #Grabs the mailboxes percentage.
                $DeletedToMailboxPercent = [math]::Round((($Deleted.Size / $size) * 100), 0)

                #Outputs the data to the return value. 
                [pscustomobject]@{
                    DisplayName             = $Mail.Displayname
                    UserPrincipalName       = $Mail.UserPrincipalName
                    MailboxSize             = $Size
                    LargetsFolder           = $LargestFolder.Name
                    LargetsFolderSize       = $LargestFolder.Size
                    DeletedItemSize         = $Deleted.Size
                    DeletedToMailboxPercent = $DeletedToMailboxPercent
                }
            }
        }
        
        #Disconnects exchange
        Disconnect-ExchangeOnline -confirm:$false > $null
    }
    End { 
        $Return | sort-object MailboxSize -Descending 
    }
}

The breakdown

First this script is designed to work on powershell 7. It will not work on powershell 5.

The first part we come to is the [pscredential] object. Notice it’s not mandatory. Notice no pipelining either. I have found PS credentials pipped intend to do very poorly. So, it’s simple, bam wam done.

Begin

Inside our begin tab, we have the module setup. We check installed modules for exchangeonlinemanagement. if it’s there, we ignore it and import the module, if it’s not we install it. Same way with importing. If it’s imported, then we do nothing, if it’s not, we import it.

Process

Next, we grab credentials if need be and connect to exchange. We use the get-credential command to grab the credentials. Then we use the connect-exchangeonline command to connect to the exchange online.

Once we are connected, the magic can start. This is the sweetness of this script. The first step is to grab all of the mailboxes at once with Get-Mailbox. Then we start a loop, not any loop, a for a loop. Wait! David, WHY A FOR LOOP! It’s simple, we want to add information to the index. So, we need to be able to call the index. We use the Get-EXOMailboxStatistics and choose the userprincipalname of the index we are looking for. We do the same thing with Get-EXOMailboxFolderStatistics. These gives us some clear stats we can use later on in the script. Now we loop through the folder stats that we just collected and math ourselves some bytes to gb. See the output of the get-exomailboxfolderstatistics looks like “24mb (#### bytes). So we need to filter that out and get the ####. I use a split to do this. I split out the string at the ‘(‘. This way, the bytes are on object 1. Then we split it again by the space. Now the bytes are on the 0 object. Then we replace the ‘,’ with nothing. Now we divide all that by 1gb to convert it to gbs. Then we drop that all into the mainfolderstats. Next, we add all of that information into the mailbox variable we created before this looping madness using add-member. We are adding it as a noteproperty.

Now we have prepped our data, it’s time to sort it. We start the loop once more, but this time it’s simple for each loop as we don’t need the array index value. We first grab all the deleted items folder. Then we grab the largest folder using the sort-object command on the size object of the folderstats note property that we made in the last step. Then we do some math. Like before to get the mailbox overall size. Finally, we grab the deleted mailbox percentage with a little more math. This time its percentage math. Now we have all of this useful information we use our pscustomobject and put it all together.

Then we disconnect using the disconnect-exchangeonline command.

End

Finally we display the return information inside our end tab. We sort the object by the mailbox size in a descending order.