by Edward van Biljon | Nov 19, 2023 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
Graphical User interfaces (GUI) are nice but I also prefer working in PowerShell as you can just get so much more info than the GUI. Recently I was working with groups and it was a bit of a pain to keep having to open the window in Active Directory Users and Computers...
by Edward van Biljon | Nov 18, 2023 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
When running installations, some systems are set to lock after a certain period of inactivity even though the installation is running in the background. Recently I was testing CIS Group Policy policies and my labs kept locking and it becomes frustrating to keep having...
by Edward van Biljon | Nov 14, 2023 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
As an Admin, looking at Event Viewer becomes a normal thing, especially when you have issues or simply looking for intrusion like in my case where events are written to the different logs. To manually go through hundreds of thousands of logs is time consuming so I...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 3, 2021 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows 10 PowerShell
If you are running PowerShell V7 like I am, when you launch it you will see a white box similar to the one below: In this article, we will be upgrading using the command line and below is the command: iex “& { $(irm https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1) }...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 2, 2021 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Python, Windows 10 PowerShell
In my previous blog post on running Python scripts from PowerShell (Article Here), I was keen to test out the same thing but using PowerShell V7 instead of PowerShell V5.1 that comes with Windows 10. I used the same script as I did previously in PowerShell V7 and here...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 1, 2021 | PowerShell V7, Windows 10 PowerShell
With commands run in PowerShell, I’m referring to the version that comes with Windows 10 (5.1), most scripts or commands run without error unless there is a problem with the script or command. I used a script from Idera to check skew on machines and this script...
