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.
Embed Files into Powershell Scripts
Do you have a zip file or an msi file that you need to embed into a powershell script for deployment. This is a quick and simple way to do this. The method is pretty sound and works most of the time. The larger the file, the more troubles the system has converting and...
Log Public IP Changes
This little script logs public IP address changes. The original design was to email out. I'll make sure to point out when and where to put that code. So the idea is simple. It checks to see if it's public IP address has changed using an invoke-webrequest. If it has...
Quser to PSObject
I have been using Quser for years and I was wondering how to parse the data out to Powershell. The best way to do this is to convert the output into a csv and then convert it from the csv to a psobject. Let us get started. First we output the quser to a variable....
Send-SHDMailMessage
Recently the send-mailmessage was put to rest with good reason. It failed to do its job by securing the emails. It sent items via plain text and not SSL encrypted. Great for internal nothing fancy, but bad if you wanted to send data outside the world. So, I built an...
Next Cloud – Download Files
In the last blog, I talked about how to upload to your next cloud's file drop, aka upload only, password-protected folder. This time we will go over how to download from a password-protected folder. Let's go over how to share out a file with a secure password....
Next Cloud – File Drop
I love my nextcloud. It is hosted at my house, and I can upload files from anywhere in the world. It's very clean, and one of the most awesome features is the file drop. I use scripts to upload the results all the time to the file drop location on my next cloud. A...
WSD Printers IP Address
WSD is an awesome service for printers. It goes out and finds a printer on the network and adds it accordingly. It does all the IP address stuff for you. Which is awesome. It even tells you that it was set up as a wsd by naming the port wsd and some code. Super...
Dino Passwords!
Passwords can be hard to make for people, especially kids and older users. That's where Dino Passwords come into play. You can make simple and yet complex passwords using this service. This service also has a simple API to work with. I personally like using the API...
Disable Shared Mailbox Sign-Ins
As part of the exchange online hardening process, one must disable the sign-in ability of shared mailboxes. This process is simple. You will need to exchange Online and the MS Online modules. First, we will grab all the shared mailboxes using the exchange online. Then...
