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  • Eval: Poly Voyager 5200 UC

    Poly? Oh, there it is, that’s why it’s called “Poly”; Plantronics was acquired by Polycom. 7 hr. talk time diminishes down to 6 over time. You can get a full day if you plug in the headset during breaks and lunch. Also connects to Cell for hands-free calling by voice. The battery being directly in…

  • Get-Pagefile

    Quickly get the remote pagefile of a window server

  • Log Specific IPV4 Traffic When Found

    Log Specific IPV4 Traffic When Found

  • Looper

    Looper

    Having a good looper is a great script to keep available… I wish I could remember where I got this form, but I thank you, Anony-Mouse scripter! [::mouse::]

  • Check for GPO or run GPupdate Remotely

    Check for GPO or run GPupdate Remotely

    This script does lots of things that are handy when group policy (SysVol) replication is a problem… (like an environment still using FRS) My Thanks to Microsoft’s CoPilot for the help in sorting the logic of the try-else-catch commands…

  • Reverse /24 IP Scope With PTR and Hostname

    Reverse /24 IP Scope With PTR and Hostname

  • HOWTO-Run Robocopy Hard and Fast

    HOWTO-Run Robocopy Hard and Fast

    To ignore errors and make Robocopy proceed without stopping, you can adjust the `/R` and `/W` switches in your command. The `/R` switch specifies the number of retries on failed copies, and the `/W` switch specifies the wait time between retries². To force Robocopy to copy a file regardless of its condition, you can use…

  • Reverse Ping a 255.255.254 Scope

    Reverse Ping a 255.255.254 Scope

    To quickly obtain the devices using an IPv4Address in a scope reverse ping the scope in PowerShell (5.1) ‘#’ReverseLookup-Ipv4Address-By23Range.ps1’$subnet = read-host -Prompt “What IP scope with /23 range? -leave off the last octet numbers – like this 10.228.30. “for ($i=0; $i -le 511; $i++) { $ip = $subnet + $i Resolve-DnsName -name $ip -ea SilentlyContinue|select…

  • Find and Install SSH Module

    Find and Install SSH Module

    $Module = (FIND-Module SSH).name Install-Module -Name $Module -AllowClobber -Verbose -SkipPublisherCheck -Repository PSGallery -AcceptLicense -PassThru|` Import-Module -NoClobber -DisableNameChecking -PassThru -Verbose|Update-Module -Verbose -AcceptLicense -PassThru|Get-Module

  • Remove Revoked Certificates

    Remove Revoked Certificates

    The removal of revoked certificates is not automatic…

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