I had a need to display the IP configuration information on the default TTY console login screen of Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Bionic Beaver. Basically we needed a way to see what the IP was set to without having to login. There were a few articles (like this from offbytwo.com) out there about ways to do […]
I don’t have screenshots of this, but I figured it is worth writing up because we couldn’t find any reference to this scenario. Hopefully it will help others. The Problem We had an Office 365 portal for a while for Exchange Online Protection and a few other things. As a global admin, I had enabled […]
Ever had to change a domain administrator’s password and had the sinking feeling that some bozo had setup a Windows service to run as that user. If you only have a couple servers it isn’t that big a deal to check each manually, but if you have a lot it can be a problem. […]
If you’ve ever had to put a large number of 2008+ Windows Terminal/Remote Desktop servers in “drain mode” using the gui admin tool, you know it can be slow and tedious. Faced with doing this on a Saturday night for about 30 servers I decided to make life a little quicker and easier by building a […]
I had a need to set all members of a group so that their Office 365 (aka Microsoft Online) passwords never expire. Didn’t take too long but I though it was worth sharing. I also added output to show the setting was changed. This could certainly be prettier but it is what it is. Pre-Reqs […]
Just worked on a test(luckily) Exchange 2010 server with a customer. When they opened the Exchange Management Console, the Server Configuration was missing and they couldn’t change the properties of any the mailboxes. When they opened the mailbox properties they saw these little lock symbols all over the place. When they ran the command “Get-Mailbox” […]
I’ve written several PowerShell scripts to help customers adjust permissions to their directory structures when migrating from other file servers(Linux/Samba, Novell OES/Netware, etc). Part of these scripts includes assigning ownership for the user. While this tends to take a long time quotas and file reporting are worthless if the administrator that copied everything is assigned […]
I was recreating a login script for a client that mapped a drive to the location of their redirected My Documents. Because they were in the middle of a migration the My Documents could be in a different spot depending on if a user had been migrated to a new environment or not. So I […]
Frequently while performing network assessments I need to assemble a list of all the programs installed on servers. Going to Add/Remove Programs and writing it down is a tedious process. Installing applications like Belarc Advisor is a bit more intrusive then I want to be on another companies servers. After some research today I found two […]
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