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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…

10/09/2018

Remove Directory Batch Script

By Steve in Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Microsoft Tag BATCH, RMDIR

#Remove directory in a batch file # rmdir /S /Q "C:\test\"

14/08/2018

Robocopy Mirror Files and Folders

By Steve in Batch Scripts and PowerShell, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10 Tag /Mir, Mirror, Robocopy

Map network drives to the correct locations Run CMD as Administrator Mirror file & directories and output detail to text file robocopy E:\..... z:\.... /MIR /S >c:\temp\detail.txt

14/08/2018

List all users in the domain and email addresses

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Powershell Tag Active Directory, export-csv, Get-ADUser, List Email Addresses, List Users, PowerShell

import-module activedirectory #List all users in the domain # Display Name and Email Address get-aduser -Filter * -SearchBase "dc=Test,dc=com" -Properties Displayname,emailaddress | select displayname ,emailaddress | Export-Csv C:\temp\users_and_email.csv

13/08/2018

Troubleshooting Windows Updates and WSUS

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Powershell Tag Get-WindowsUpdateLog, Troubleshooting, Windows 10, Windows Updates

Troubleshooting Windows Updates #Windows 10 #Windows 2016 Windows Update Log PowerShell command to check the Windows Update log • Get-WindowsUpdateLog Check Registry Keys Run command prompt as adminitrator and…

13/08/2018

Get a list of active users which have logged on to the domain in the last 7 days

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, Get-ADUser, Get-Date, LastLogonDate, PowerShell

# Get a list of users which have logged on to the domain in the last 7 days $Date = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) Get-ADUser -Filter {LastLogonDate -gt $Date} | Select distinguishedName

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…

16/07/2018

Automating File-Based Backups of vCenter Server…

By Steve in PowerCli, vCenter, VCSA, VMware Tag Automation, Backup, vCenter, vCenter Server

Automating File-Based Backups of vCenter Server Appliance Automating File-Based Backups of vCenter Server... Did you know the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) has file-based backup options? This ability was actually released…