Category Microsoft

01/08/2018

PowerShell Script to find all AD users who have the “cannot change password” box checked in a specific OU

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, CannotChangePassword, DistinguishedName, Get-ADUser, PowerShell

# script to find all AD users who have the "cannot change password" box checked in a specific OU # Windows Server 2016 # Powershell Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties CannotChangePassword…

30/07/2018

Robocopy. Copy Move Files Older or Newer than X number of days

By Steve in Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Tag copy, days, maxage, minage, move files, newer, number, older, Robocopy, Windows

Script options Move only files under 60days old Move files older than 60days Move files back Move files older than 182 is number of days (6 months roughly) Move only…

15/07/2018

WSUS – GPO and Windows 10 / Server 2016 Registry Settings

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, WSUS

You create a WSUS GPO and apply it to the Computers. Now how do you validate its working Open the registry and browse to : computer\HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate The GPO for…

15/07/2018

WSUS and Windows 10 – Clients not checking in or checking in and then disappearing

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, WSUS

Clients not checking in or checking in and then disappearing Cloned images - SUSCLIENTID is not reset with Sysprep!!! This needs to be done if your creating a template for…

15/07/2018

WSUS and Windows 10 Clients – UsoClient.exe

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, WSUS Tag Updates, USO, UsoClient.exe, Whats New, Win 10, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Updates, Windows10, WSUS, WUAUCLT

So, you deploy a GPO to Window 10 clients, but your in a hurry to get the clients to check in... As a SysAdmin for many years I would log…

12/07/2018

Create an ISO file with PowerShell post by Ben Liebowitz

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Windows 10, Powershell Tag Create ISO, function, ISO, New-IsoFile, PowerShell, Script

Recently I came across this post. As a VMware admin, you often want to create an ISO as a quick method to copy files or installation files to a VM.…

11/07/2018

List Computer Object in an Active Directory OU using PowerShell

By Steve in DS Commands, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Powershell Tag Active Directory, export-csv, Filter, Get-ADComputer, List AD object, PowerShell, Searchbase, Windows 2016

How to get a list of computer objects in an active directory OU ( tested against Windows 2016 Active Directory ) A quick PowerShell script using Get-ADComputer command, a wild…

23/05/2018

Sysinternals – Permissions, LoggedOn, Endpoints

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell, Windows 7 Tag LoggedOn, Permissions, PowerShell, Sysinternals

How to Get the permission on folders: PowerShell: Get-ChildItem | Get-ACL Path | Owner | Access or more in depth use: GUI based : Run AccessEnum against the drive or…

21/05/2018

Client failed to RDP to RDS server following Windows Server Patching – CredSSP updates for CVE-2018-0886

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Windows 7 Tag authentication error, CredSSP, CredSSP encryption, CVE-2018-0886, Oracle remediation

CredSSP updates for CVE-2018-0886 That Monday morning issue when servers were patched on a Sunday... All Windows 10 clients fail to RDP to the RDS server following Windows Server Patching.…

21/05/2018

Check / Set / Sync Time Source for Windows Servers

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Tag NTP, Sync, Time, W32TM, Windows

To set the time ( Tested against Windows 2016) Launch CMD as administrator exampled c:\time 09:00:00 AM - This will set the time to 9am Note a time source…