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Powershell Script to Open Multiple URL’s in a Browser

by Danny February 23, 2021
by Danny February 23, 2021

If you’re looking for a simple one-line Powershell script to open a webpage (or multiple webpages), then this tutorial will work perfectly for you. I use this script to open several URL’s…

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Powershell Script to Create New Active Directory User

by Danny February 23, 2021
by Danny February 23, 2021

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…

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How to Create a Powershell Menu GUI

by Danny February 23, 2021
by Danny February 23, 2021

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…

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How To Export LAPS Passwords from Active Directory with Powershell

by Danny February 9, 2021
by Danny February 9, 2021

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…

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How To Enable Photo Viewer on Windows Server 2016 or 2019

by Danny December 6, 2020
by Danny December 6, 2020

I’m in the middle of migrating my Plex media server from my daily driver Windows 10 PC to Server 2019 Standard. I ran out of space (and hard drive bays) inside my…

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How To Limit Bandwidth in PfSense

by Danny November 23, 2020
by Danny November 23, 2020

Are you a PfSense user? Interested in setting up a firewall rule to “limit” the amount of bandwidth each device can upload/download? If so, then you are in luck! In this step-by-step…

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Configure Watchdog 15 Temperature Sensor in PRTG using SNMP

by Danny November 13, 2020
by Danny November 13, 2020

Chances are that if you are reading this article, you have purchased a Geist Watchdog 15 temperature sensor to monitor the temperature of your server rooms. These temperature sensors are awesome and…

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How To Integrate Duo 2FA Into OpenVPN

by Danny October 21, 2020
by Danny October 21, 2020

This guide will show you how to configure Duo Security into OpenVPN Community Open Source Project. Note: If you’re using OpenVPN Access server, the instructions provided by Duo are here: https://duo.com/docs/openvpn-as Pre-Requisites…

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Create PDQ Inventory Report to Show Local Admins

by Danny September 28, 2020
by Danny September 28, 2020

PDQ Inventory is an awesome tool for system administrators. I constantly amazed at the amount of things I can do with it to simplify my life. For example, we are transitioning away…

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Chrome Extension Checker for PDQ Deploy

by Danny June 11, 2020
by Danny June 11, 2020

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create a PDQ Deploy sequence to check whether or not a computer has a certain Google Chrome extension installed. All the other…

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