When retrieving data from the event log, there is a set of data stored in a data field called ReplacementStrings that is very useful to the certain types of log entries. It’s structured as a string array, therefore, can be retrieved if you know the data structure. The problem is, every type of event ID has different string array structure. […]
If a user account gets locked out, I can follow these tips to find out why and when it happened. But how can I check and gather lockout info along with the bad password attempts info of all users across the entire AD domain? Asking help from PowerShell is my answer. There are two places where we can gather this […]
To get the IP addresses of the remote desktop sessions behind a Remote Desktop Gateway, you need to open RD Gateway Manager, go to Monitoring section and check each of the connected sessions to find their IP addresses. If you want to look further for their geolocations as well, you would search the IP address in one of the geolocation […]
Reset the local admin password the other day and I needed to find out all services that rely on the local admin account to run so no interruption would happen after the reboot. Obviously, the easiest way to find out is using PowerShell. But how? I first tried the Get-Service cmdlet but found that it doesn’t return the value for […]
See how easy it is to make your site HTTPS-ready, here is a 4-part series that takes you through the basics of adding HTTPS for free with Cloudflare. Created by Troy Hunt, HTTPS is Easy is a 4 short video series around 5 minutes each to show people how to enable HTTPS on their site and get all traffic redirecting securely, […]
When a PowerShell script takes long time to finish, it’s nice to have some sort of notification set up in place to notify you when the job is finished. Here are three type of notifications you can create in PowerShell. Notify via Email PowerShell has a native cmdlet Send-MailMessage that can be easily set up and use. I have written […]
I have an imaging system that uses the command line imagex to build and apply images to install new computers. It’s relatively easy to set up and works quite efficiently. Because it’s using Microsoft’s own Windows Image Files (WIM) format, it’s also easy to mount to not only read but update files in the image file. You can even install […]
A great write-up after Google’s jaw-dropping I/O 2018 keynote, about two different approaches that will lead our future tech in two very different ways. The Google and Facebook Philosophy (the computer does your work for you) vs. The Microsoft and Apple’s (the computer enables you to do your work better and more efficient) Tech’s Yin and YangThat there are two […]