Test Microsoft Service Connections
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Internet Explorer
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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…
Find Duplicates in an Array
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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…
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…