URLs With PowerShell
Reading Time: 3 minutes Regex… Even the PowerShell Masters struggle with it from time to time. I helped a friend of mine with some URL chaos. The URL he had was a software download and the token was inside the URL. Yeah, it was weird but totally worth it. There were…
Comments in Group Policy
Reading Time: 2 minutes Documentation is a big deal in the world of IT. There are different levels of documentation. I want to go over in-place documentation for group policy. Comments in Group Policy are in-place documentation. How to comment on a Group Policy This…
Enable RDP on a Remote Computer
Reading Time: 3 minutes There has been a few times where I have needed to enable Remote Desktop Protocal on Remote computers. So, I built out a simple but powerful tool to help me with just this. It uses the Invoke-Command command to enable the RDP. So, lets dig in….
Clear Print Jobs with PowerShell
Reading Time: 2 minutes During my in-house days, one of the things I had to do constantly was clear people’s print jobs. So I learned to Clear Print Jobs with Powershell to make my life easier. It surely did. With PowerShell I could remotely clear the print jobs as…
Ping Test with PowerShell
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anyone who has been in IT long enough has performed a Ping Test. A simple ping and IP address. Most of us have used the “Ping 8.8.8.8 >> c:\pingtest.txt” to see how many times something failed. But did you know you can do the same thing with…
Run as an Administrator
Reading Time: 2 minutes When building out scripts, we must consider different ways they will fail. One of the ways I have seen them fail is through the UAC of a computer. The script needs to be run by an administrator. The question is, How do you check if you are…
Test a Registry Value with PowerShell
Reading Time: 2 minutes The other day I needed to test if a registry key was present on an end user’s computer and make it if it didn’t exist. I performed a registry key value test with PowerShell. Since I was doing more than one, I pulled an older tool from my tool…
Share Point File Audit
Reading Time: 8 minutes While reading on Reddit, I found a common thread. People need a quick way to do a Share Point File Audit. I have a PowerShell function for this in my toolbox. This tool heavily uses the Search-UnifiedAuditLog command let. The most common items…
Monitor Discovery Through PowerShell
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today, in the field, we will discover a user’s monitors through PowerShell. This is very useful for any kind of RMM tool. I used this script with PDQ and Continuum. You can also run this script with backstage. Let’s take a look at the script…
