Sysadmin

In this guide, I will show you how to run your Vmware Workstation VM in the background and automatically after reboot, using either a batch file in the Startup folder or Windows…

After spending a few hours migrating Home Assistant from a raspberry pi to VMware Workstation, and passing the my Nortek GoControl USB dongle successfully from my Windows 10 PC to the VM,…

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install HASS Workstation Service in Home Assistant. HASS Workstation Service is an application that lets you use use Home Assistant to control…

If you’ve been looking for a Powershell script to find the most recent computers that have been joined to your Active Directory domain, then you’re in luck. This Powershell script is super…

In the IT world, it’s common practice to name all of the computers you join to the domain with the same naming convention. For example, we use company abbreviations-operating system-next in line…

If you work in the IT department, chances are that you loan out laptops to your users every once in a while. They may need something temporary to use when giving a…

Whenever a new employee starts at your organization, chances are that you typically send out an email template with all the necessarry info they’ll need. These include things like how to submit…

In this guide, you’ll learn how to move a computer object from one OU to another. This is a great step to automatically moving computers or servers to the correct group using…

In case you haven’t heard of or used Password Pusher, or pwpush.com, it is a service that allows you to enter passwords into a web browser, which is then turned into a…

The title is a little wonky, but let me explain. We use Veeam for backups at our company. We have a pretty standard backup procedure: incremental backups are taken on weekdays, and…