by Edward van Biljon | Dec 27, 2020 | PowerShell
Sometimes in Windows 10, you are working on Outlook and you need to close it for some reason and when you try and launch it again nothing happens. This is because there is already a process running in the background, the previous session you closed did not end...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 26, 2020 | PowerShell
If you are like me and constantly experimenting with applications like PowerShell or Python, you end up doing things a bit differently to the normal user. Why click an Icon for Outlook to open or your daily apps when you can use PowerShell to do it for you. In the...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 25, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
One thing I have learnt is you cannot have too many log files. If you want visibility into what is running commands on your server or who is running commands or what is executing, you need to enable PowerShell logging. You get some really sophisticated malware that...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 24, 2020 | PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
You may have noticed that when you want to run that PowerShell script you downloaded it gives you an error. This is because windows is designed to protect the operating system. If you are running Windows Server, the default is set to remote signed. On Windows client...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 23, 2020 | PowerShell, Python, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
If you want to use PowerShell to execute Python scripts, you need to have Python installed or you will receive the error below: Head over to the Microsoft store and download Python. I opted for Python 3.7 but there are newer versions out: After the install was done, I...
