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
Reading Time: 6 minutesWorking 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...
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...
