Saturday Link Roundup–Powershell
DaleDifferences between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x I considered upgrading from PowerShell 5.1 to 7 until I read about the incompatibilities. Wanting to automate SCCM Reports? – start by…
Increasing the event log file sizes under “Applications and Services Logs” via Group Policy.
You can’t directly. Using Group Policy Preferences, though, you can. In other words, we’re going to set some Registry Keys. The Applications and Services Logs registry entries can be found…
PowerShell and TLS 1.2
The customer was trying to connect to Azure, and PowerShell was throwing this error You are using TLS version 1.0, 1.1 and/or 3DES cipher which are deprecated to improve the…
Saturday Link Roundup
Forensics Windows Forensics Analysis — Tools And Resources | by Nasreddine Bencherchali | Medium Blue Team-System Live Analysis - Windows: User Account Forensics- NTUSER.DAT Rules, Tools, Structure, and Dirty Hives!…
When Test-ComputerSecureChannel isn’t fast enough
Want to know when you have a good connection between your Local Computer and your Domain?Might I suggest Test-ComputerSecureChannel to you?The Test-ComputerSecureChannel cmdlet verifies that the channel between the local…
Saturday Link Roundup-Assorted
Tables Generator I so dislike having to code HTML Tables manually, Tables Generator makes it easy. Personality Tests – summary from Atomic Habits Recently finished reading Atomic Habits by James…
Accessing Azure Active Directory information via PowerShell
Two ways to do it, via MSOnline module AzureAD module MSOnline First you start with a connection to Azure AD, via Connect-MsolService Then you can run a number of commands…
Adventures in PowerShell and Exchange Online – some notes
Get-Mailbox The documentation for Get-Mailbox suggests using Get-EXOMailbox instead. Which you can do by installing PowerShell 7 and then installing the Exchange Online V2 PowerShell Module. What if you really…
ipconfig /flushdns now requires elevation?
Customers had started to report that ipconfig /flushdns now requires Local Administrator rights. C:\>ipconfig /flushdns The requested operation requires elevation. Not all customers are seeing that though. (Microsoft has gone…
“My network drive drops out”
Had a customer complaining that their computer would lose the mapped network drives. Turning off the disable "turn off this device to save power" feature seems to reduce the number…