So the thought behind these Posts are to offer very basic things that System Administrators (you) can do to help secure the network. These are things I see time and time again when doing Assessments and worse, Incident Responses. I will try to break these down in SysAdmin talk and… Continue reading
So yes, It has been 2 years since I posted <sigh> You would think with Covid I would have been all over this, but well .. we all agree that time of our lives sucked and here we are. As we have all had, I recently had the requirement to… Continue reading
It has been a few months since I have been here it appears, and as part of my personal goals for the year I have vowed to contribute more to the community. With that in mind today I want to touch a little on using PowerShell to get domain SPF,… Continue reading
Yeah .. we all do it, admit it or not. But I am tired of doing it so here is my work around. Create a file called ls.bat In the file put just dir Save that file to a folder in your System Path I saved to c:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps Alternatively you… Continue reading
Wanted to state that I was still here just busy on Side projects. Lately Badge Pirates (our custom PCB design projects) have been taking up a lot of my time. If you are interested in some of the Conference Badges we have created go to https://badgepirates.com. I have more content… Continue reading
This is due to a limit with Get-ADGroupMember having a 5k limit, so this is telling you that the group you are trying to get members from has more than 5k Members. To get around this you can use this Myself I ran it as such so I can do… Continue reading
Not sure how I missed this in the past, or have not had this come up before, but here is something I just had to use today. Comparing 2 AD Groups in Poweshell. You will get 2 columns: SamAccountName SideIndicator User (== or <= or => == in both <=… Continue reading
These are just annoying, Everything works but we still have domains that show up as “Possible Service Issues” in the Domain setup in o365. I know there are no issues, you know there are no issues, but heaven forbid someone that doesn’t know what they are looking at sees it…. Continue reading
Had a requirement to search mailboxes by a specific date. In our case it was to look at the size of a mailbox if looking at the last 6 months. Here is something close, which will search for mail receive by a specific date. # variables param ( $path =… Continue reading
This is a simple one, want to get today, yesterday, last month or last year .. try this $Date = Get-Date $Today = $Date | Get-date -Format MM/dd/yyyy $Yesterday = $Date.AddDays(-1) | Get-Date -Format MM/dd/yyyy $LastMonth = $Date.AddMonths(-1) | Get-date -Format MM/dd/yyyy $LastYear = $Date.AddYears(-1) | Get-Date -Format MM/dd/yyyy You… Continue reading