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...
by Edward van Biljon | Oct 27, 2020 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
When you configure your POP/IMAP Service on Exchange 2019, manually going to services and changing the startup from Manual to Automatic just takes time. With PowerShell, you could add this to a script so when you license your server and enable your SSL certificate,...
by Edward van Biljon | Aug 27, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
Quick PowerShell Script!! If you have a temp directory that has many items in, selecting all from Explorer and then deleting them takes longer than using a simple PowerShell command: Here is the command you can run: Get-ChildItem -Path “C:\Windows\Temp”...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 1, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
Recently we had a request to update a whole stack of servers registry keys. With PowerShell this is easy to do. In the first step you need to set the location of where you want to work. In this case it was HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Location – Location being where you want...
