With the end of life is approaching fast for Windows 7 systems, I racked up my nerve and set up a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) system lately to replace my ages-old ImageX imaging system for Windows 10 deployment, either new installations or upgrades from old Operating Systems like Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Setting it up wasn’t too bad, especially […]
I had a need to manipulate some text files to get the clean data the other day and found it’s extremely easy to deal with text files with PowerShell. To open a text file and get the content of it, Get-Content path\filename.txt But I can use ForEach cycle to read each line the same time. foreach ($eachline in Get-Content path\filename.txt) […]
Microsoft published a new draft release of the security configuration baseline settings for both Windows 10 version 1903 and Windows Server version 1903. Download here: Windows-10-1903-Security-Baseline-DRAFT (direct download link from Microsoft). It includes GPO backups, GPO reports, scripts to apply settings to local GPO, Policy Analyzer rules files for each baseline and for the full set, and spreadsheets documenting all […]
A Reddit user raised this great question today that I am not aware of. So I did a little research and here is the breakdown of what it is. What is KRBTGT? The KRBTGT is a local default account that acts as a service account for the Key Distribution Center (KDC) service. It’s created automatically when a new domain is […]
After watching a webinar recently where the presenter was using Visual Studio Code to run PowerShell codes he prepared for the demo, it strikes me that maybe it’s time to ditch PowerShell ISE and start using Visual Studio Code for all my coding needs. Setting up VS Code for PowerShell turns out super easy. First, download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com […]
On an Active Directory Domain with multiple GPOs in place, it’s nice having a way that can generate reports in various situations. Group Policies applied to my account and computer There is a built-in tool called Resultant Set of Policy (rsop.msc) that scans all active policies and displays them all in a window similar to Group Policy Editor. You will […]
We always use command lines like PING to get the IP address assigned to a specific domain DNS. For example, to get the IP address of google.com, we use: ping google.com As you can see, this only returns one of IP addresses assigned to google.com. To get the full list of IP addresses associated with google.com, you need to use […]
Other than open every single installed printer to print test pages, here is a much better way that you can do it all at once. Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName PrintTestPage If you only want to certain printers, use the -Filter switch. Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer -Filter “Name LIKE ‘*name*’ | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName PrintTestPage You can even use Get-Printer cmdlet to pick […]