The Random Admin
Welcome to the random admin – a hub for system administrators passionate about teaching and leveraging technology to support local businesses. Explore our diverse topics. In my journey, I’ve gained insights into mental health, integrating it into my work to foster unexpected growth in others. At the random admin, I merge mental health and IT through engaging stories, offering a unique blend of knowledge and self-understanding.
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Delegation
A while back, a client called and told me he made a few new group policies, and they were not working as expected. He stated some policies applied to the wrong users, while another didn't apply at all to any users. He stated he set the security group correctly. When I...
Test Microsoft Service Connections
This past week I have had multiple terminals up with different clients on different terminals connected to different Microsoft services. I quickly realized that I needed to know if I was already connected or not to each Microsoft service. I knew that Get-PPSession was...
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Internet Explorer
Any IT professional will tell you, technology changes almost daily. Some things seem like they will never change then bam, it changes. For example the dependency on IE. In the 90s and most of the 20s it was IE. Firefox and Chrome started back then but didn't really...
Find Duplicates in an Array
Need to find duplicates in an array? It's as simple as using a group object. So we take an array, and group the array by property or group of properties. Then we search those groups for any group that has a count of 2 or greater. Then we display those groups. Here is...
Group Policy Trouble Shooting – Conference Call
I have been working with group policy recently and have been enjoying it. I wanted to share this knowledge with the rest of the world. I’m going to do that through a few scenarios. This first part is gathering information. More information you have, the more likely...
How to speed up your Computer
The goal of this blog is to show you a way to speed up a computer using basic software commands/programs. I use these daily and I have seen them work. Sometimes they don't sometimes they do. Disk Cleanup Disk cleanup is a powerful built-in tool that allows you to...
Playing with Logs – Regex
Working with strings in logs can be a challenge, here is how to pull the IP address and Mac address along with some other useful tips.
Resolve a Site name to Geo Location
With everything that happened with Facebook yesterday, I began to wonder where does my query goes when I type in facebook.com. So, I did a few things and found out. The first thing I did was resolve the name facebook.com to an IP address, or group of IP addresses in...
Datamuse API and PowerShell
There are 171,476 or so words in the English language. This doesn't include names or other items. Datamuse is a very powerful database of English words. It contains rhyming, like, anonymous, Synonyms and much more. What I like about this site is it has a simple API...
