Group Policy Trouble Shooting – Conference Call
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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…
How to speed up your Computer
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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…
Resolve a Site name to Geo Location
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
Datamuse API and PowerShell
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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…
Embed Files into Powershell Scripts
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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…
Log Public IP Changes
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
Quser to PSObject
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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…
Send-SHDMailMessage
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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…
Next Cloud – Download Files
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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…
