Create GUIs for Powershell scripts? Yeah, sometimes that could be useful...if you want to create a tool to distribute to your team without requiring them to remember switches or reviewing what the script does (especially if not used much). Below is a template I worked up to speed up the process of slapping a GUI … Continue reading Creating GUIs for Powershell
A while back, I did a post on creating snapshots of EC2 instances with Powershell here. Well, in November, AWS released an option to do VSS-aware snapshots via SSM. You'll find AWS' post about that here. From the AWS post... To create VSS-enabled EBS snapshots by using AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell: Send-SSMCommand -DocumentName AWSEC2-CreateVssSnapshots … Continue reading An update on Windows EC2 Instance Snapshotting with Powershell
If you've ever had to dig through Windows security event log for a specific event, you know it's a bit of a pain. Fortunately, you can speed up your search with Powershell's get-eventlog cmdlet. Let's look at filtering the security logs to see who has logged on to a computer. The Event ID for a … Continue reading Filtering Security Event Logs with Powershell
Every now and then, you run across applications that won't launch without admin privileges, but you can't give the user admin privileges (like on an RDS Server). Here's a quick and easy way around this- For my example, I'll be modifying my Watchguard SSL VPN client application to run as user appadmin. Then, create a … Continue reading Run an application as admin or another user
This has come in useful a few times for customizing RDS profiles from behind the scenes... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Or for another user, after locating sid HKEY_USERS\[SID]\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows It is listed as Device
A very simple process... Logon to the server currently running DHCP. It's ok to leave DHCP running during this process. In Powershell, running as administrator: Export-DhcpServer -File C:\DHCPdata.xml -Leases -Force -ComputerName old.network.local –Verbose On the server to be running DHCP, make sure the role is installed and the service is started Import-DhcpServer -File C:\DHCPdata.xml -BackupPath C:\DHCP\ … Continue reading Moving DHCP from Server 2012 R2 to another 2012 R2 Server
I was tasked with migrating from 2008 to 2012 R2 DCs. The new DC had been promoted. FSMO had been transferred. Dcdiag and repadmin looked good...no signs of issues. However, when I went to demote the old DC, I received the following error: The operation failed because: Active Directory Domain Services could not transfer … Continue reading Failure when demoting a DC…
I recently encountered a scenario where it was necessary to store credentials in Dell Wyse Windows 8 Embedded thin clients. The thin client user account didn't allow access to the credential manager with a lot of work to remove the device lockdown. It was desired to pre-stage the credential for the user account of a … Continue reading Adding stored passwords to Windows via cmd line
I recently did a terminal server replacement for a small number of users. I found that the users didn't use standard drive mappings, logon scripts, etc; They used 1-off manually mapped drives. I took it upon myself to move them to a standardized drive mappings. These aren't the type of users who you could email … Continue reading Get SID of AD user
I recently had a project that involved moving files off a Turnkey Linux NAS to a Windows Server- about a TB or so. My first approach was to connect to the Linux NAS shares from the Windows Server via Windows Explorer. Then, I planned to map the drives and use robocopy to copy and periodically mirror … Continue reading Using WinSCP to move Linux File Shares to Windows
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