New-SMBMapping vs. New-PSDrive
DaleThis’ll be an expanding topic I suspect … New-SMBMapping (link) Seems to be the Microsoft’s preferred method. Mapped network drive may fail to reconnect in Windows 10, version 1809 -UseWriteThrough…
Deleting missing or dead iTunes music entries
For whatever reason, I ended up deleting some MP3 files from my music storage, and my iTunes Library still had (now "dead") links to the files. To find these dead…
The last time my computer was seen on the network …
was something I wrote about 8 years ago, in Detecting inactive computers in your AD domain. So it was time to update that*. Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Properties Name, LastLogonTimeStamp |…
Using PowerShell to ZIP something.
I needed to ZIP-up some log files in a number of subdirectories. In the past, I have used the PKZIP utility.I couldn’t find my copy of PKZIP “Doesn’t PowerShell have…
Getting the user name for a given security identifier (SID)
Two lines of Powershell code: PS C:\> $osid=New-Object system.security.principal.securityidentifier("S-1-5-21-593069383-354653268-975305329-98179") PS C:\> Write-Host $osid.translate() Output is in the form of <DOMAIN>\<USERID> ie. NODDYLAND\admin-bike01 Reference: Microsoft: Well-known security identifiers in Windows operating…
Getting a list of users in a particular AD Group
Get-ADGroup "<GROUP NAME>" -Properties Member | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Member | Get-ADUSer -properties Displayname,Description,EmailAddress | Select Name,Displayname,Description,EmailAddresswill cause the following to displayName Displayname Description EmailAddress ---- ----------- ----------- ------------ fkjhsd Fred…
Group Policy and WMI Filters–Round 2
This is more of a link dump than anything else. I was asked what I thought of a WMI-related Group Policy change.I don’t much care for them.So I know that…
Getting a list of users in your AD domain via Powershell
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties HomeDirectory,LastLogonDate | Select-Object Name, LastLogonDate, HomeDirectory will cause the following to display Name LastLogonDate HomeDirectory ---- --------------------- --------------- CollinsP 11/12/2015 6:04:12 AM \\wisefaq.com\HomeDrive\CollinsP SprouleK 19/12/2015 2:08:12…
Getting a list of printers published in an Active Directory domain
So I need to get a list of print servers and printers in the domain. Using Powershell. Looking around the interwebs, I found a PowerShell commandline here which formed the…
How to tell a PC’s network link speed remotely
By using PowerShell like this: Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface -ComputerName Localhost | Format-Table Name,@{label="LinkSpeed(MB)";Expression={$_.CurrentBandwidth/1000000 -as }} which will return this: I first learnt how to do this by reading this blog…