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…
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 URL that expires after a certain number of days or views, or both. While emailing passwords is not a good security practice, creating…
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…
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…
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…
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 desktop, so the time has come to migrate to a different OS. I purchased all the components with the intention of turning my…
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 guide, I’ll show you how to use the Traffic Shaper wizard to create bandwidth restrictions on a per-device or per-network basis. And if…
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…
