Enjoy! Edit: Thank you to Reddit user u/caverCarl for making this so, so much better. New and improved script at the bottom of the page. Link to u/caverCarl’s original script here. Improved script by u/caverCarl
Remove-ADUser vs. Remove-ADObject
So when cleaning up Active Directory recently, I kept getting running across a handful of user accounts that were being a bit stubborn when trying to remove them. I kept getting this error: What in the… After googling around a bit, I found that Exchange is storing its ActiveSync devices as leafs on the accounts, […]
One Liner: Get the Weather with Powershell
Here’s a fun little one liner I use to send the weather to our internal IT dashboard at the office. You should get something similar to this. You can even do things like send the output to a .png file. It’s smart enough to determine your location automagically, but you can also specify a particular […]
Quick Script: Windows 10 KB5000802/KB5000808 Removal
Simple script to check for and remove the problematic KB5000802 and KB5000808 updates that are causing issues with printers like Kyocera, Ricoh, Lexmark, etc…. This will still need a reboot to take affect, but should do the trick. This could also be modified to remove the Windows server patch KB5000822 that causes the same problem. […]
Quick Script: Get AD Lockouts
I use this one once in awhile when I have a user or service account that is getting locked our repeatedly, and I need to see where its coming from. You should be able to run this from your local computer. It will used the entered credentials to remote into the domain controllers and pull […]
Pin to Quick Access with Powershell
So here’s a fun one that saved me buckets of time the other day. We needed to give our not so tech savvy users easy access to a folder without having to provide directions to them to navigate to the folder. Now, just like with everything else, there were multiple ways to tackle this problem, […]
Save Credentials to a File
We’ve all been guilty of it once in awhile. You know what I’m talking about. Saving plain text credentials into a script. It’s great for testing in certain situations. I’ve even been guilty of saving a script and keeping it for awhile on my laptop with the credentials in plain text. It’s just to convenient […]
Module Highlight: Invoke-CommandAs
Invoke-Command is a great tool in the powershell arsenal, but what if you need a little more than what the standard Invoke-Command has to offer? For example, I have a funky batch script that does some SQL juju that needs to be run as the SYSTEM user on demand. Or, what if I’m running into […]
One-Liner: Move Computer to new OU
Periodically, I scan our Active Directory (AD) for machines that haven’t contacted AD in 60+ days. So one thing I like to do is stage them in an OU called “Obsolete”, and then wait another 60+ days to remove them from AD. Our turnover is generally not to high, but it’s enough that moving/removing the […]
One-Liner: Test-NetConnection Tweaked
Test-Connection is a great tool, but sometimes I would like to ping a list of IPs periodically. Here’s a little one-liner that will do exactly that: Just point it to a text file formatted like so: And here’s the output: Enjoy!
