A Quick and Dirty Method for Auditing Permissions by Keyword with Powershell

Posted on by Justin Worrell

Auditing NTFS permissions in Windows is not a fun task, especially in environments that may have a lot of broken inheritance deeper in the file structure. In such scenarios, Powershell can be a powerful tool to help spot check permissions, given certain keywords. The script below would be run from the Windows Server sharing the … Continue reading A Quick and Dirty Method for Auditing Permissions by Keyword with Powershell

Installing Postfix as an Outgoing Mail Relay

Posted on by Justin Worrell

Mail relays are common to networks to facilitate alerting, etc.  In Windows environments, IIS SMTP relay is often used, but Postfix could be used as well. We'll walk through how to configure an outgoing Postfix as an outbound mail relay on Ubuntu 16.04. Enter the domain from which your messages will come.  Technically, this doesn't … Continue reading Installing Postfix as an Outgoing Mail Relay

Detecting where Folder Permissions are not Inherited with Powershell

Posted on by Justin Worrell

Occasionally, you'll find a file server that has had permissions no longer inherited in a bunch of seemingly random places and it can be difficult to sort out where to begin with necessary changes moving forward. I happen to stumble upon how to get better visibility into inheritance with Powershell: In the example below, I … Continue reading Detecting where Folder Permissions are not Inherited with Powershell

Powershell Text to Speech

Posted on by Justin Worrell

My uses for Powershell have always been very utilitarian.  However, recently I became aware that you can actually do text-to-speech, so I thought I'd play around with it a bit. This is about the simplest example: Add-Type -AssemblyName System.speech  $speak = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer  $speak.Speak('Hello, Is it me you're looking for?') There are some additional options I came across here. As … Continue reading Powershell Text to Speech