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Monitoring User, Groups Changes in Active Directory – version 0.8

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Monitoring User, Groups Changes in Active Directory – version 0.8

💡 Little introduction Event Monitoring solution written in PowerShell is an event library (Get-EventsLibrary.ps1) script that parses Security (mostly) logs on…

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Write-Color – 2 year Anniversary Edition – v0.3

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Write-Color – 2 year Anniversary Edition – v0.3

That was a bit unexpected. The day I revisit Write-Color for PowerShell to release new version of Write-Color after some minor…

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What’s new – Event Monitoring v0.7

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What’s new – Event Monitoring v0.7

I’ve further optimized code and added some more health checks so that the process is a bit smoother. You can…

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Get-EventLog shows wrong maximum size of event logs

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Get-EventLog shows wrong maximum size of event logs

While working on EventManager script I’ve noticed that Get-EventLog is not returning proper values for Maximum File Size. When checking Maximum log…

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What’s new – Event Monitoring v0.6

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What’s new – Event Monitoring v0.6

After having some feedback and seeing as some features were missing new version of Events Monitoring brings few of noticeable…

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Granting “Logon as a batch job” permission for Task Scheduler to work

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Granting “Logon as a batch job” permission for Task Scheduler to work

Running Tasks with Task Scheduler is one of most common scenarios in Administrators life. By default you can run your…

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Monitoring Active Directory Changes on Users and Groups with PowerShell

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Monitoring Active Directory Changes on Users and Groups with PowerShell

Working as Administrator with Active Directory can be rewarding. You can easily deploy new settings, make changes to users even…

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Microsoft Outlook – Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

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Microsoft Outlook – Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

When working on Windows Server 2016 on RDS session one of the users reported he cannot start Outlook. He gets…

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Add Google Chrome mobile bookmarks into Bookmarks Bar

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Add Google Chrome mobile bookmarks into Bookmarks Bar

I use Google Chrome on computer as my main browser. Recently I’ve switched from Safari on iOS to Google Chrome…

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Sync any folder in Windows to OneDrive

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Sync any folder in Windows to OneDrive

OneDrive is great piece of software but at the time of writing it misses some of the features that competitors…

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