How To Move A Computer Object to a Different OU in Powershell

How To Move A Computer Object to a Different OU in Powershell

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 Powershell, instead of manually moving them. Step 1: Delegate Control of an OU in Active Directory Before you can move a computer object…

Powershell Script to Copy Full VM (.VBK) Backup Files to External Drive (excluding .VIB)

Powershell Script to Copy Full VM (.VBK) Backup Files to External Drive (excluding .VIB)

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 full VM backups are taken on weekends. Each backup job goes to it’s own folder. Within those folders, there are tons of .VIB…

Powershell Script to Open Multiple URL’s in a Browser

Powershell Script to Open Multiple URL’s in a Browser

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 during our new hire deployment in a brand new Chrome browser window. For example, when a new employee starts, we typically have to…

Powershell Script to Create New Active Directory User

Powershell Script to Create New Active Directory User

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…

How To Export LAPS Passwords from Active Directory with Powershell

How To Export LAPS Passwords from Active Directory with Powershell

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…

Configure Watchdog 15 Temperature Sensor in PRTG using SNMP

Configure Watchdog 15 Temperature Sensor in PRTG using SNMP

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 are highly-rated on /r/sysadmin for good reason. I purchased 4 of these sensors about 2 years ago, and haven’t had any issues with…