by Edward van Biljon | Dec 28, 2023 | PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell V7
Many items that run in Windows have scheduled tasks that run at certain intervals. Malware and bad actors like abusing scheduled tasks because they contain elevated privileged accounts which run as SYSTEM. Have you ever wondered what is actually running on Windows...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 20, 2023 | PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
If you work with a large number of servers and you do not use a system to manage the activation of all machines built, manually logging in and checking the status is just time consuming. I put together a script that will go and get the status of all machines specified...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 19, 2023 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
In my blog post on collaborationpro.com where I showed you how to get a reverse shell on Windows Server 2022 and then demonstrated how ESET removed the file, well, because it was on Windows Server 2022 Core, there is not browser option so I had to put together a quick...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 18, 2023 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019, PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
As an Exchange Administrator, working with many Exchange Servers is not uncommon but when you have to deal with copying the latest Security Update (SU), Cumulative Update (CU) or updated SSL Certificates, it can be a tedious task to do it all manually. Luckily we have...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 17, 2023 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019, Exchange Online PowerShell, PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell V7
In my previous blog post, we looked at creating a self signed certificate using PowerShell (3x Liner). The certificate obviously is not what a professional cert is, one thing missing is the “Friendly Name” which can be changed in the MMC and certificates...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 15, 2023 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019, PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell V7
As an Exchange Admin, we work with various connectors such as Receive and Send connectors and once you set them up, especially in the Exchange Admin Center (EAC), not all information is visible and you need to use PowerShell to get other information. To open up the...
