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Export-CliXML and Import-CliXML serialization woes
I’ve been working today trying to deliver to one of my Clients Active Directory documentation. To my surprise, something that worked fine f…
Finding duplicate DNS entries using PowerShell
Today’s blog post is about Active Directory-integrated DNS and how to find duplicate entries. By duplicate, I mean those where one DNS name…
Finding duplicate DNS records by IP Address using PowerShell
In my earlier blog post, I showed you a way to find duplicate DNS entries using PowerShell, but the focus was on finding duplicate entries…
Finding duplicate SPN with PowerShell
Duplicate SPNs aren’t very common but can happen in any Active Directory as there’s no built-in way that tracks and prevent duplicate SPN’s…
Finding GPOs missing permissions that may prevent GPOs from working correctly
I’ve been in IT for a longer time now. I’ve made my fair share of mistakes and misconfigurations. One of those misconfigurations was removi…
Fixing Active Directory PasswordNotRequired with PowerShell
There was I, deploying PSPasswordExpiryNotifications for one of my Clients when I started getting complaints that some users are not gettin…
Formatting and minifying resources (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with PowerShell
When you work with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you often meet three versions on how those are stored in files – minified, formatted, somewhe…
Four commands to help you track down insecure LDAP Bindings before March 2020
In March 2020, Microsoft will release its monthly updates. With those updates, Microsoft will disable insecure LDAP Bindings, which is goin…
Function cannot be created because function capacity 4096 has been exceeded for this scope
I had a long day today when my long-running script (10 hours) gave me weird errors with Microsoft Graph for Teams. Finally, I solved my mis…
Get-ADObject : The server has returned the following error: invalid enumeration context.
In the last weeks, I’m working on a PowerShell module that the main goal is to work on gathering and fixing GPOs. I’ve been testing my modu…
Get-AdPermission – The operation couldn’t be performed because object couldn’t be found
During our recent creation of Relay Receive Connector on Exchange 2013 we’ve encountered an error: The operation couldn’t be performed beca…
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 Max…
Get-EventsLibrary.ps1 – Monitoring Events PowerShell
This event library (Get-EventsLibrary.ps1) is PowerShell script that parses Security (mostly) logs on Domain Controllers. It has few report…
Getting Active Directory Last Backup Time using PowerShell
I shouldn’t be telling you that, but Active Directory Backup is an essential part of your Active Directory setup. When a backup of Active D…
Getting Azure Health by parsing HTML using PSParseHTML
Some time ago I’ve wrote PowerShell way to get all information about Office 365 Service Health, and if you were thinking that I would try t…
Getting Bitlocker and LAPS summary report with PowerShell
Having Bitlocker and LAPS in modern Active Directory is a must. But just because you enable GPO and have a process that should say Bitlocke…
Getting file metadata with PowerShell similar to what Windows Explorer provides
I’m working on a new feature for one of my modules that requires me to know what kind of files I am working with. It’s quite easy in PowerS…
Getting Verified badge next to your GitHub commits in VS Code
A bit over two years ago, I started posting my PowerShell code as modules on GitHub. Initially, I planned to have them hosted on my website…
Getting Windows 10 build version from Active Directory
Today I saw an article on how to get Windows Version Report from Active Directory and thought that this is a cool idea. Something handy for…
How I didn’t know how powerful and fast hashtables are
I’ve been using PowerShell for a long while now using Hashtables, OrderedDictionary, and other types of data types in PowerShell, but I nev…