Category Cloud & Datacenter Management

08/11/2018

VMworld 2018 Barcelona Highlights

By Steve in AWS, Powershell, Trend Micro, Veeam, Vembu, VMware Tag AWS, Barcelona, Cohesity, Dell, Hackathon, NetApp, Nutanix, PowerVKE, Trend Micro, Veeam, Vembu, vExpert, VMware, VMworld, VMworld2018

Stephen Hackers from Hot Wired IT Solutions affiliate partner to HTG (Howell Technology Group) made the trip to VMworld Barcelona 2018 with Kevin Howell (HTG), Graham Wight (HTG) and Tony…

17/10/2018

List User Profile Status On A Client Windows 10 Machine

By Steve in Microsoft Windows 10, Powershell Tag PowerShell, UserProfile, Windows10

Run on client machine to see the status of user profiles on a Windows10 machine Type the following PowerShell command : gwmi win32_userprofile | select localpath, roamingpath, status

12/10/2018

New Release: PowerCLI 11.0.0

By Steve in PowerCli, Powershell, VMware Tag PowerCli, PowerShell

New Release: PowerCLI 11.0.0 New Release: PowerCLI 11.0.0 PowerCLI has been moving at quite the rapid pace over the last 2 years. In 2018, we’ve been releasing roughly every other…

11/10/2018

List Computers in Specific OU which are Enabled and Output to CSV

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Powershell Tag export-csv, Get-ADComputer, PowerShell

# Out puts computer accounts including status Enabled True or False # Targets a specific OU # Lists computer names # OU Variable to set $OU_HotWiredUK_location = "OU=Computers,OU=HotWiredHQ,OU=UK,DC=test,DC=com" # Out…

08/10/2018

List Members of a specific AD group

By Steve in Active Directory, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Powershell Tag AD group, Get-ADGroupMember, samAccountName

#List Members of a specific AD group – output Username and User Full Name Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "AD GROUP NAME" | Select samAccountName, Name

02/10/2018

If Not Exists – Batch Script

By Steve in Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Tag Batc, IfNot

Create a batch file to check a text file is in the location specified, else run a task. #This batch file checks to see if a text file is…

02/10/2018

Files Older Than 3 Months Combined Total File Size

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag file sizes, lastwritetime

A requirement to identify the total file size of all files not used in the last 3 months. This was the solution #Run as administrator #You need to have permission…

20/09/2018

vSphere ESXi 6.7 Unable to talk between subnets between hosts

By Steve in ASA, CISCO, ESXi, ESXi 6.7, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, VMware Tag 6.7, ASA, CISCO, Code 0, Denied ICMP, ESXi, Firewall, interfaces, Port Groups, Security Levels, Type 8, VLANS, VMware, vSphere

Configuration was : ESXi 6.7 - vSphere handling all the port groups tagged with VLANs Firewall - CISCO ASA Problem : New ESXi 6.7 hosts. A virtual machine if…

11/09/2018

Task : Output A List Of Home Drive Paths Configured In Active Directory

By Steve in Active Directory, DS Commands, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, CSV EXPORT, DSQUERY, Get-ADUser, HOME DRIVE, PowerShell, USER PROPERTIES

#DSQuery dsquery user -name "*" -limit 0 | dsget user -samid -hmdir -hmdrv -profile >c:\temp\usersV2.txt #PowerShell # More flexibility # Includes the state of the computer account (Enable or…

11/09/2018

How To Access A SQL Server 2008 Databases WITHOUT SA (SysAdmin) Credentials

By Steve in Ethical Hacking, Microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Tag Ethical Hacking, PSEXEC, SA, SQL, SQL 2008, SSMS, SysAdmin

Challenge : How to make a backup of a SQL 2008 database without knowing any working credentials. Log on to the Windows 2008 R2 server running SQL Server 2008 as…