Burnout In IT and How to Avoid it
For years, I thought Burnout was equal to weak. Boy was I wrong. Burnout is a real thing and it changes how you see this world. Burnout can take a good worker and make them the worst worker. That's what it did to me. What is Burnout and How do you avoid it? What is...
Extra Registry Settings in Group Policy
While working with Group Policy this month, I ran across an oddity I have never seen before, "Extra Registry Settings" These were inside the default domain policy and I had no idea why they were there. So, I did some research. What are they? These keys come from when...
Get-Credentials to Plain Text
Sometimes I like to go back and see where I can improve my scripts. A few weeks ago I showed you the Unifi Controller script. Where it pulls the client information from each site. Well, I wanted to improve upon this script. A problem I see with this script is the...
LAPS Password With PowerShell
A few of my clients use something called LAPS. Laps change the local administrator password on a computer and then store the information inside Active Directory. Since I don't dive deep into this client's computers often, I needed something to quickly type the first...
Troubleshooting Radius – IP Changes
Last October, I ran across a client with a broken radius. I want to go through the process I used to troubleshoot the issue. The goal of this to bring you a level of understanding of the troubleshooting processes. Not every process is the same for each It related...
Get Client Information From your Unifi Controller
Today I would like to go over how to get client information from your Unifi Controller. We will first connect to our Unifi Controller with Powershell using the Unifi API. Then from there we will pull each site and create a list of different sites. Finally, we will use...
Time For a Break
Welp is the end of the year. I have things in the works, however, I just started a new job. It requires me to learn many new and exciting things. While I learn these new things, I will be working on new blog posts for the upcoming year. Starting next year, I will be...
Azure AD Connect Unauthorized Error
Today I was trying to sync a user's account to the cloud and I received an error code that was new to me. Access denied, Unauthorized! I was using a domain admin account. I should have full access and rights. It threw me off as I have never seen such a thing. Why was...
URLs With PowerShell
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 many different ways to...
