For the longest time, part of our user onboarding process was to manually create user accounts in the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) widget. It doesn’t take very long, but whenever you onboard users manually, there’s a higher margin for error. For example, our ticketing system uses LDAP to pull the email field from…
In this guide, I’m going to show you an incredibly simple way to create a menu to display all of your most-used Powershell scripts. In this tutorial, I am using PSScriptMenuGui. This module uses a simple 6-column .CSV file, which is where you will specify things like the script path, button name, section, and description….
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to export the LAPS passwords from Active Directory using a 3-line Powershell script. This script automatically exports all LAPS passwords from Active Directory to a CSV file with the date appended to the file name. I then schedule this to run monthly using Task Scheduler. Why…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup Plex Assistant, which is a project that integrates with Google Assistant. This allows you to say things “Hey Google, tell Plex to play Game of Thrones on Living Room Chromecast”. There are two installation methods available for Plex Assistant. One of the methods is…
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install Nginx Proxy Manager in Docker on a Ubuntu 20.04 VM. This guide was created in January of 2021, so all of the info here should be up to date. The main goal of this post is install Nginx Proxy Manager so my Plex users…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to automatically create Home Assistant backups and save them to Google Drive in 2021. To do this, we are using a community addon called Home Assistant Google Drive Backup. Home Assistant Google Drive Backup leverages Home Assistant’s snapshot feature to schedule snapshots as frequently or infrequently as you…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to add an Ecolink Wireless Audio Detector to Home Assistant. I will also show you how to create a basic automation that will alert you via Home Assistant phone notifications if smoke is detected. In terms of cost, an audio detector is a great alternative to purchasing zwave…
With all of the SmartThings issues I’ve been hearing about lately, I thought now would be a good time to share some guides I created whenever I migrated to Home Assistant. Follow this guide to learn how to migrate from SmartThings to Home Assistant in 2021. Overall, SmartThings was pretty solid for me. I had…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to add Xiaomi Aqara devices to Home Assistant in 2021. If you’ve added other devices to Home Assistant using ZHA, then this should pretty straightforward. These are some of the best sensors to add to Home Assistant due to their low cost and appealing looks. We will be…
Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. It has a beautiful UI, is easy to use, and very customizable. The developer is also actively adding new features to it, which is something I always like seeing in self-hosted apps. To add a recipe, simply copy and paste a URL into Mealie and it…