Mastering Credential Management in PowerShell: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction As a PowerShell administrator, securely handling credentials is one of the most critical aspects of scripting and automation. In this post, we’ll explore various […]
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Discovering Share Permissions(ACL) on Windows Servers using PowerShell
Introduction: Managing permissions on shared folders is a crucial aspect of maintaining data security and accessibility within an organization’s network infrastructure. Windows servers offer various […]
Get Duplicate users in a forest
(Get-aduser -filter * -server Domainname:3268 | Group-Object -Property UserprincipalName | ?{$PSItem.Count -gt 1 -and $PSItem.Name -ne “”}).group |export-csv c:\temp\duplic.csv -NoTypeInformation
Get users Group and members of the groups
$AllUSers = get-aduser -filter {SamAccountName -like “z*” -and Enabled -eq $true } -Properties Memberof,EmployeeNumber -Server <Domain name> | ?{$PSItem.DistinguishedName -notmatch “OU=Service Accounts”} $results = new-object […]
Get active Computers in Forest
$ForestInfo=Get-ADForest $Domains =$forestInfo.domains $FileName =$ForestInfo.RootDomain+”-Windows_Servers_60-9_Days_Active-“+”$(get-date -Format MM-dd-yyyy)”+”.csv” $FilePath = “c:\temp” $Daysactive = 60 $lastactive=(get-date).AddDays(-($Daysactive)) foreach($domain in $domains){ Write-Output “Working on $domain” Get-ADComputer -Filter {OperatingSystem -like […]
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Testing open ports With PowerShell
We can use PowerShell to test remote port connectivity without installing telnet and with the use of the Test-NetConnection command. To check if the remote […]
Share folder permissions
#Share Folder Path $FolderPath = dir -Path “\\server1.vmwarenterprise.com\Reports\” -Recurse -Directory -Force$Report = @()Foreach ($Folder in $FolderPath) {$Acl = Get-Acl -Path $Folder.FullNameforeach ($Access in $acl.Access){$Properties = […]
Get DC replication time response
foreach($d in (get-adforest).domains){$v = Measure-Command {get-addomaincontroller -Filter * -Server $d}Write-Output “Took $($v.TotalSeconds) to Enumerate DCS in $d “}
Creating and Removing domain accounts in each domain in a forest
Created domain account in each domain add it to domain admin group $domains = (get-adforest).domainsforeach($domain in $domains){$accountname = ‘s-coe-‘+($domain -split “.”)[0]+’-DA’$accountpass = ‘P@ssword123456’ | ConvertTo-SecureString […]
Created ISO image using PowerShell
Some Enterprise Organisations do not allow us to use any software on their networks a. Any software to be installed would need to be tested, […]
Get AD user Properties across the forest
#get all AD users in forest with name like v- and status is enable $allusers = (get-adforest).domains| %{get-aduser -filter {SamAccountName -like “v-*” -and Enabled -eq […]
Get DNS forwarder from forest
#Domain names in forest $ForestInfo = Get-ADForest$Domains =$forestInfo.domains$FileName = “DNSForwarder”+”$(get-date -Format MM-dd-yyyy)”+”.csv”$FilePath = “c:\temp”foreach($domain in $domains){Write-Output “Working on $domain”get-dnsserverforwarder -computer $domain| select IPAddress, @{l=”Domain”;e={$domain}}| Export-Csv […]
UPDATE DNS IP in List of computers
#Input file is CSV file with headers IPaddress $Computers = import-csv “c:\temp\servers.csv” ForEach ($Computer in $Computers) {Write-Host “$($Computer.IPAddress): ” -ForegroundColor YellowInvoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer.IPAddress -ScriptBlock { […]
Create Domain User and remove domain user
#Created domain user and add user account to domain group $domains = (get-adforest).domainsforeach($domain in $domains){$accountname = ‘s-user-‘+($domain -split “.”)[0]+’-DA’$accountpass = ‘P@ssword123456’ | ConvertTo-SecureString -Force -AsPlainTextWrite-Output […]
Get IP address and DNS of remote computers
$Computers = GC “c:\temp\servers.txt” foreach($computer in $computers){Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Computername $Computer | Where-Object {$_.IPEnabled -match “True”} |Select-Object -property DNSHostName,@{N=”DNSServerSearchOrder”;E={“$($_.DNSServerSearchOrder)”}},@{N=’IPAddress’;E={$_.IPAddress}}|export-csv c:\temp\DNSlist.csv -NoTypeInformation -append#@{N=’DefaultIPGateway’;E={$_.DefaultIPGateway}}}
Power Off listed VM’s
Connect to Vcenter Connect-VIServer vmwareenterprise.com -WarningAction 0 ####### Shutdown all VMs from the list “C:\temp\vm.txt“########### foreach($vmlist in (Get-Content -Path C:\TEMP\vm.txt)) { $vm = Get-VM -Name […]
Finding Inactive or Unused Computers
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Adding name servers to multiple DNS zones with PowerShell
Add multiple DNS servers as name servers to multiple DNS zones all in once. So this is essentially adding NS resource records to a zone, […]
Get Password Policye for all domains in a forest.
Get Password Policy for all domains in a forest.. (Get-ADForest).domains | %{Get-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy -Identity $_ } | Select-Object * | Export-Csv -Path C:\Reports\DefaultPasswordPolicy-All.csv -NoTypeInformation Having […]
KMS activation
How do I manually connect my Windows or Windows Server device to the KMS activation server? Right Click on the Start menu and select Command Prompt (Admin) Run […]
Backup GPOs basing on GPO DisplayName
$invalidChars = ‘:\\/’ + [RegEx]::Escape(-join [IO.Path]::InvalidPathChars) $backupDir = ‘C:\temp\backup’ Get-GPO -All -Domain <DOmain Name>| ForEach-Object { $name = $_.DisplayName -replace “[$invalidChars]”, ‘_’ $gpoDir = Join-Path […]
Activate Windows with KMS server
Activate Windows with KMS Server Step 1: KMS Client Setup Key Before activating your Microsoft product (Windows or Office) on the KMS server, you must change […]
Function Name: Get-LoggedIn
Function Name: Get-LoggedIn # ——————————————- # Function Name: Get-LoggedIn # Return the current logged-in user of a remote machine. # ——————————————- function Get-LoggedIn { […]
Function Name: Get-Uptime
Function Name: Get-Uptime # ——————————————- # Function Name: Get-Uptime # Calculate and display system uptime on a local machine or remote machine. # ——————————————- function […]
VM inventory using Powershell
Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -DefaultVIServerMode Multiple -Scope User -Confirm:$false Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Scope User -Confirm:$false #$cred = Get-Credential Domain\username Connect-VIServer VCenter-Name -Credential $cred -force & { foreach ($vCenterServer […]
Activate a Windows Operating System / Microsoft Office 2016 (All Supported Versions)
Activate a Windows Operating System (All Supported Versions) Open an Elevated Command Prompt window. In the elevated Command Prompt window, verify that the current […]
Add Notes To Multiple VM’s
Note: This script will overwrite the existing Notes, so use it at your own risk! My colleague asked me to add some notes to the […]
NewRemote-Process
cls Function New-RemoteProcess { #[CmdletBinding()] Param( [String]$ComputerName = $env.computername, [String]$Cmd = $(Throw “You must enter path to the command which will create the process”), [String]$ac, […]
Delete User profiles using DELPROF2
Create .csv file with column name “Computername” $servers = import-csv C:\Temp\servers.csv $comps = ($servers).ComputerName $comps | %{ New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force \\$PSItem\c$\Temp; Copy-Item C:\Temp\Delprof \\$PSItem\c$\Temp\Delprof […]
Get DHCP Scopes using PowerShell
We need DHCP PowerShell cmdlet to be available in order to manage DHCP. By default, the DHCP module is not loaded in PowerShell. We need […]
Moving Object from one OU to other OU
Get-Content C:\temp\Computers.txt| %{Move-ADObject -Identity “CN=$_,OU=WIN10,OU=ABC,OU=Computers,DC=CHILD,DC=Domain,DC=Vmwareenterprise,DC=com” -TargetPath “OU=Prod,OU=WIN10,OU=ABC,OU=Computers,DC=dev,DC=DIR,DC=vmwareenterprise,DC=com”} -Verbose
Gets one or more Active Directory organizational units
Description The Get-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet gets an organizational unit (OU) object or performs a search to get multiple OUs. This cmdlet gets a default set of OU object […]
Username creation
Just give input as first name and last name in inputfile Jeevan bobba Abcdef ghijklmnopqrst It will create username and by adding v- at […]
Getting Computer Uptime Using PowerShell
Computer uptime is an important statistic in systems management. Here are several of the ways we can determine system uptime for a computer (note that […]
How to Turn Off Windows Firewall Using PowerShell and Command Prompt
If you want to turn off the Windows Firewall, there are three methods. One is using the GUI which is the method that takes the most […]
Delete files based on the list of computers
Delete Files from Remote computers The following PowerShell script recipe will help you delete a remote file based on a list of computers stored in a text file. New PowerShell function […]
Citrix Ports
ICA#1494 RDP#3389 CGP#2598 IMA#2512 AMC#2513 XML#8080 License Manager Daemon#27000 Citrix Vendor Daemon#7279 License Management Console#8082 Citrix Receiver#80 Citrix Receiver#443 Offline Plug-in-SMB#445 Power & Capacity Management […]
Communication flow Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop logon process
Communication flow during the different stages of the Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop logon process 1. The user device submits credentials to the Web Interface (WI) or StoreFront (SF) […]
Restart Multiple VM’s
Connecting to individual host Open VMware vSphere PowerCLI console #Connect to the host Connect-VIServer -Server hostname.example.com #Get all VMs from the host, filter those powered […]
Powershell better console – PSReadLine for PowerShell command line editing
Towards a better console – PSReadLine for PowerShell command line editing Sometimes text mode is where it’s at. I’ve long blogged about tools and […]
Send HTML Email and attachment using Powershell
Powershell script to email ###########Define Variables######## $date = “get-date” $fromaddress = “[email protected]” $toaddress = “[email protected]” $Subject = “Test $(get-date)” $body = Get-Content C:\temp\Test.htm #$attachment = […]
XenApp & XenDesktop Avoid Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)
when I updated to 7.14 I had the issue, because my license server and my delivery controller cannot communicate outside there is also a ugly […]
Free Vmware vsphere 6.5 training
Fell free to share with others… Features of vSphere 6 5 Lesson1.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvRAk7Fp6Y Introduction to the ESXi 6 Command Line Interface CLILesson1.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ikD9HXs-U The Course […]
Copy file to multiple remote servers
I often have to copy files and folders from one server to another for various reasons. Copying stuff manually is a bore but if you […]
New remote process
Function New-RemoteProcess { #[CmdletBinding()] Param( [String]$ComputerName = $env.computername, [String]$Cmd = $(Throw “You must enter path to the command which will create the process”), [String]$ac, [String]$wait […]
Reset Machine name in Catalog
If you’ve deleted these machines from AD and DDC (I assume by using Desktop Studio to delete the machines) then you can get back to […]
The provisioning task is already running on the Machine Catalog
Error after an update of the Machine Catalog Solution: Open Powershell as administrator and find out the running Task ID on the Machine Catalog. Add-PSSnapin […]
How can I tell which Domain controller I’m authenticated to?
You can find this through the following command: echo %LOGONSERVER% And you don't have to be admin or poweruser to use it. Have a […]
ESXI Host and compatible hardware version
ESXi/ESX version Hardware version Compatible with vCenter Server version Version 11 Version 10 Version 9 Version 8 Version 7 Version 4 ESXi 6.0 Create, […]
Host Windows OS for VMware vCenter Server installation
Windows Operating System 6.5 6.0 U2 6.0 U1 6.0 5.5 U3 5.5 U2 5.5 U1 5.5 5.1 U3 5.1 U2 5.1 U1 5.1 5.0 U3 […]
Useful Windows Command Prompt Tricks
Useful Windows Command Prompt Tricks 1. Command History Using this command, you can track down your command history. This will turn out to be useful when […]
How To Convert Text Into Audio
How To Convert Text Into Audio STEP 1: Open Notepad. Press Win+R and type Notepad and Press Enter. STEP 2: Now, Copy following program and paste it in Notepad Dim message, sapi message […]
Linux Directory Structure
Overview Everything in Linux can be reduced to a file. Partitions are associated with files such as /dev/hda1. Hardware components are associated with files […]
Power off multiple VM’s
Connect to Vcenter Connect-viserver vc.abc.com Stop-VM -VM (gc C:\Temp\serverlist.txt) -Confirm:$false
Add a domain user or group to local administrators
I tried to make this script as simple as possible for day-to-day use. This script takes three parameters: ObjectType: Type of object that you want […]
Load PowerCLI module in Powershell console
PowerCLI 6.5.1 has been released and in this release VMware have made some big changes to the way you install and keep up to date […]
Using netsh command to reset the TCP/IP stack in Windows
Use a manual method to reset TCP/IP Note This section is intended for advanced computer users. If you are not comfortable with advanced troubleshooting, ask […]
How to display function definition / code in powershell
If the function name contains a hyphen (eg. test-computername): ${function:test-Computername} Alternatively: (Get-Command test-Computername).Definition Or cat function:show-list To export function to text file cat function:test-computername >c:\temp\function
Protected: use full links with password protected
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Find the SMTP Mail Server for an domain
This example helps identify the mail server for a given email address. This is useful for Identify your own SMTP mail server to use with […]
Hide Acrobat Reader Tool bar
Side bar(Tool bar) that appears with Adobe Acrobat Reader with options like Export PDF, Create PDF, Edit PDF, etc, is frustrating sometimes as you […]
POWERSHELL SCRIPT COPY FILES USING ROBOCOPY
POWERSHELL SCRIPT COPY fILES USING ROBOCOPYPOWERSHELL SCRIPT COPY fILES USING ROBOCOPY Please find powershell code which will assist you in copying data from source location to destination […]
Multiple RDP (Remote Desktop) sessions in Windows 10
Instead of modifying termsrv.dll file you can use RDP Wrapper which acts as a middleman between Terminal Services and Service Control Manager. This way you don't need to touch termsrv.dll file. Actually, […]
VMware Home Lab hardware/software requirement
Hello guys in this post i will tell you how you can easily setup your own hands-on lab at your home in your pc but […]
Usefull Links
http://blog.feedspot.com/powershell_blogs/ Welcome to vmwareenterprise.com. Deploying vRealize Operations Manager http://bcove.me/j5ltvkxu Initial Setup of the Cluster http://bcove.me/zys7y3a5 Installation with High Availability http://bcove.me/n27a2ecz First Login for a New […]