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Active Directory – How to track down why and where the user account was locked out
I’ve been working with Windows Events for a while now. One of the things I did to help me diagnose problems and reporting on Windows Events…
Azure AD Connect – Completed-Export-Errors – Permission-Issue
During synchronization of Active Directory with Office 365 via Azure AD Connect I was greeted with a list of accounts that have permission-…
Azure Agent – Where did my space go?
Recently I had a weird case where one of our Azure servers was starting losing space pretty quickly making Pulseway go nuts. As you can ass…
Encrypting and decrypting PGP using PowerShell
Some time ago, I decided that having an easy-to-use PGP PowerShell module is a way to kill my boredom. Four months have passed, and I decid…
How to change your own expired password when you can’t login to RDP
I must admit that it was a bit embarrassing to see my Administrator password expired when I tried to log in as Domain Admin to Domain Contr…
How to find different server types in Active Directory with PowerShell
Working as a freelancer is a great thing if you can handle it. Each day, each week something new happens and a new problem shows up on my d…
Import-Module: This script contains malicious content and has been blocked by your antivirus software.
I’ve been working today on a little project when suddenly my modules stopped working. It was weird because I have not touched anything that…
Microsoft discontinues Active Directory Replication Status Tool
Active Directory Replication Status Tool is very nifty application providing information about potential problems in replication between do…
Outlook – The primary account cannot be removed unless it is the only account in the profile
Last few months I’m responsible for the migration of Office 365 to Office 365. While doing so, we came into a situation where users have th…
PowerBGInfo – PowerShell alternative to Sysinternals BGInfo
When I created ImagePlayground, I thought about how to show its usefulness to the general community. On how to deliver what PowerShell can…
PowerShell modules I worked on in 2018
We’re a few days in 2019, and from a time perspective, I can say I had a busy 2018. I must say I’ve never expected that but in 2018 I’ve cr…
Powershell – Change DNS IP Addresses remotely
Sometimes you need to update multiple computers with proper DNS settings. Instead of doing this one by one manually you…
PowerShell – Environment Path is missing or overwritten
I had a strange issue today when I was doing some development where suddenly my scripts would report inability to…
PowerShell – Everything you wanted to know about Event Logs and then some
If you feel this title is very familiar to you it’s because I actually have stolen the title from Kevin Marquette. I’m in awe of his posts…
PSBlackListChecker – Added Discord support
It’s been less than 24 hours since I’ve released PSBlackListChecker with support, among other improvements, for Microsoft Teams and Slack a…
PSWinDocumentation – Audit Active Directory Passwords
If you’re paying attention to what’s happening around the world now you probably know Have I Been Pwned service by now. You probably know t…
PSWinDocumentation – Version 0.1 with Word / Excel export
A few weeks ago I’ve released my first version of PSWinDocumentation. It was simple, one command module where you start it and get some bas…
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…
Track Ubiquiti Unifi Stock, and get notified of changes
I am a pretty big fan of Ubiquiti and their Unifi products line. Whether it’s network equipment or their camera systems, Unifi Protect, I h…
Update-Module – PackageManagement\Install-Package : Unable to find repository
I was installing newest version of my PSWinDocumentation module on Windows 2016 when I noticed I can’t really get anything…