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Get ALL A User’s Groups

…get every group a user is in, including the Primary

April 17, 2024

Get Domain Users

The reason you cannot enumerate all ‘Domain Users’ members is due to size restrictions of the PowerShell commands,

April 17, 2024

Get-ADGroup WildCard is BROKEN

In the past (2018) you could use ‘like’ on Get-adgroup, like this:

March 26, 2024

PS Script to Promote 2019 Server to RWDC

Add-WindowsFeature -Name “AD-Domain-Services” -IncludeManagementTools:$False -Confirm -ea Inquire -LogPath “C:\Users\$env:username\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\log\$day-RWDCPromo.log”

March 19, 2024

As you can see, Microsoft’s syntax is wrong:They show the syntax for setting soft-passive mode as ‘Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true’ when it is ‘Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring:$true’ <– NOTE THE COLON??? Arrrrgghhhh! I cannot tell you how frustrating it is when code is not written to give you ANY response unless you get the syntax EXACTLY right. *SIGH*…

March 14, 2024

Locate Pervasive Lockouts of AD Accounts

You can use PowerShell to search the Security event log for lockout events…

January 2, 2024

PowerShell: Install ActiveDirectory Easily

I have found this make installing the ActiveDirectory Module FAR easier.Quick.Painless.

December 21, 2023

ChatGPT-AzureAI:Tail in Windows

To use this function, simply call it with the path to the file you want to tail and the number of lines you want to show: tail “C:\Path\To\File.txt” 10

September 6, 2023

Check Wildcarded AD User Properties with PowerShell 5.1

Get all user properties, or just one, with a wildcard

August 28, 2023

Install Any Command Easily in PowerShell

That’s how you would install ANY module for a command you need. Now TELL me that’s not convenient!

July 24, 2023

Our Azure Resource Group, Tenant, and Subscription Questions to ChatGPT.org

Azure RGs, Subscriptions and Tenants can get confusing; This Q&A my son Ryan and I asked ChaGPT.org, during our AZ-104 training, should help.. Can an Azure Subscription be accessible by multiple tenants? And why?In Azure, can there be multiple subscriptions in a tenant? Can users access multiple subscriptions? How?

May 11, 2023

Log4J scanning fails to create csv file

invoke-command -scriptblock {powershell -File “D:\batch\Fix-4Log4J.ps1”} -computer $Server -AsJob -JobName “Scan4Log4J” -Verbose -EA SilentlyContinueWhen I run this script locally, with enter-pssession the script works just fine but NO CSV & D:\batch\Fix-4Log4J.ps1Yet every time I try to invoke, directly or with SAPS it fails to create file When I run this script locally, with enter-pssession the script…

March 18, 2023