Active Directory Domain Controller Certificates Installation Guide
Overview This article deals with Domain Controllers, rather than member servers. Thus, Active Directory or…
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PowerShell: Get OU of a User & Get All Users In an OU
function getUserOu($username){ if(!(get-module activedirectory -ea SilentlyContinue)){ $osType=switch ((Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem).ProductType){ 1 {'client'} 2 {'domaincontroller'} 3…
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PowerShell: Test Domain Username & Password Credential
Version 2: function testCredential($username,$password){ # Get current domain using logged-on user's credentials $isDomainJoined=$env:USERDOMAIN -ne $env:COMPUTERNAME…
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How to Add Domain Admins to SQL Server
Step 1: Right-click Start > Search > type in 'ssms.exe' > right-click Microsoft SQL Server…
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SQL: Creating a Storage Report of Databases Residing within Server
Method 1: -- Get sizes of all databases from system (not real-time) WITH fs AS…
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SQL: Backup Database and Purge It From SQL Server
/* Make a Final Backup of Database, Purge Its Backup and Restore History, and Remove…
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PowerShell: Windows 10 Cleanup
Update: there's a new script to cleanup windows here. function cleanWindows{ write-host 'Disabling Windows Media…
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Set Windows Remote Desktop To Allow Blank Passwords
By default, Windows restricts RDP access for account without passwords. Of course, this is a…
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PowerShell: Check Registry Path, Key, and Dword Value
$path='HKLM:\Software\Intel' $keyName='GMM' $dwordName='DedicatedSegmentSize' $dwordValue=512 Function CheckRegistryKey { param( [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $true)][String]$path, [Parameter(Position…
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Linux: Enable PowerShell Remoting WinRM Client on Ubuntu 20.04
This note is a work-in-progress as the NTLM authentication support module by Microsoft for Ubuntu…
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PowerShell: Purge, Destroy, or Empty a Directory!
# WARNING: THIS IS A VERY DESTRUCTIVE FUNCTION. IF EXECUTED AT THE WRONG DIRECTORY WHERE…
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Tasks to Perform After Windows 10 Upgrade
Target for Windows upgrade cleanup: C:\$Windows.~BT\* C:\$Windows.~LS\* C:\$Windows.~WS\* C:\ESD\Download\* C:\ESD\Windows\* C:\$WINDOWS.~Q\* C:\$INPLACE.~TR\* C:\Windows.old\* C:\Windows\Panther Please…
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PowerShell: Graceful Shutdown of MS SQL Server
import-module sqlps CD SQLSERVER:\SQL\$env:computername $sql = (get-item .).ManagedComputer # This command stops MSSQL$instanceName, SQLSERVERAGENT, SQLAGENT$instanceName,…
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Ubuntu: Testing Webcam
Most modern Linux distributions come with drivers for webcams. It's highly likely that a your…
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PowerShell: Invoke Backup SQL Database
Function to invoke SQL Backups on a Remote SQL Server: # invokeSqlBackup.ps1 # Version 0.0.1…
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PowerShell: Windows Performance Benchmarking
There are many 3rd party performance benchmark tools for Windows 10. Out of convenience, PowerShell…
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Windows: Force Dedicated RAM to Integrated Graphics
Please be advised that the following instructions will only be effective for Windows computers with…
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PowerShell: Get SQL Server Performance Counters
Version 2 # getSqlPerformanceCounter.ps1 # version 0.02 $computername='sql0003.kimconnect.com' function getSqlPerformanceCounter($server=$env:computername,$sampleInterval=10,$maxSamples=1){ $PerformanceCounterSampleSet=$result=@() $counters=@( '\Memory\Available MBytes', '\Memory\Pages/sec',…
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PowerShell: Use WinSCP to Test a SFTP Connection
# testSftpConnect.ps1 # Quick script to test SFTP connectivity $username='FTPUSER' $password='PASSWORD' $sftpServer='x.x.x.x' $sftpPort=22 function testSftpConnect($sftpServer,$username,$password,$sftpPort){…
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PowerShell: Quick Exercise On Disks Operations
# View disks on the system get-disk Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total…
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