Month: December 2020

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December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Install & Configure Pihole on Ubuntu 20.04

1. Installation- Run these commands: # sudo apt-get install gamin -ysudo curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/master/automated%20install/basic-install.sh |…
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December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Block Distracting Sites Such as Youtube and Hulu on Your Home Network

Overview: - You send a voice command 'block youtube' to Alexa, an Amazon personal assistant…
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December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: connectWinRM Function to Create New-PSSession

This reusable function may be included into PoSh scripts for better connection toward Windows machines…
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December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Install Apps On List of Computers

[string[]]$computers=@( 'SERVER01', 'SERVER02', 'SERVER03' ) [string]$chocoAppName='notepad2' [version]$minVersion='4.2.25.20160422' $results=[hashtable]@{} foreach ($computer in $computers){ $result=invoke-command -computer $computer…
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December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Installing or Including an Application On a Computer or Scripting Session

Sample Usage: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> includeapp -appName notepadplusplus -appExe notepad++notepadplusplus version 7.91.0.0 already exists.True function includeApp($appName,$appExe=$False,$version){…
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December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Renaming a System File

System files are typically owned by the TrustedInstaller account and protected from deletion or changes.…
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December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Replacing Notepad with Notepad Plus Plus

Update 12/04/2020: there's a simpler solution - install notepad2! choco install notepad2 -y The command…
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December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Host Multiple Domains with SSL Using Microsoft Information Service (IIS)

Step 1: Add SSL Certs into the computer information store Here's a sample script to…
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December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: How to Replace a System File – For Experimentation Purposes

# When attempting to rename a system protected file such as notepad.exe $notepadExe='C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe' $newNotePadExe='C:\Users\rambo\Desktop\notepad.exe' rename-item…
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December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Enabling Unix Newline ‘LF’ Support for Windows 10 Version 1706 or Higher

Please note that the following PoSH commands won't work on earlier versions of Windows (e.g.…
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December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Check File Encoding UTF7, UTF8, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII

$filePath='C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts' function getFileEncoding($filePath) { # Checking the byte order mark (BOM) or first 4 bytes…
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December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Set Default UTF-8 encoding for New Notepad Documents When Saving File

Part 1: Set Default UTF-8 encoding for New Notepad Documents When Saving File for Legacy…
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December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Microsoft Dynamics 365: System Administrator Profile Corruption Problem

Symptoms: Field Security Profile Does Not List Enabled Custom Fields Certain forms would show a…
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December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Rebooting a List of Computers

Recommended Method to Process a List of Computers: $computernames='web01','web02','web03' restart-computer -computername $computernames -force -wait Get-WmiObject…
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December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Installing ScreenConnect Client on Ubuntu 20.04

Installation: # CLI installation method after setup file has been downloaded sudo apt install default-jre…
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December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Enable XRDP Session Sharing

# Edit the xrdp init file sudo vim /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini # Add this at the bottom…
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December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux: Init Process in the Background and Detach

# Define program program=remmina # Method 1 nohup $program & # Method 2 $program &…
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