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 | Oct 19, 2022 | Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
I was tasked with updating a number of mobile numbers in Active Directory and the easiest way that this was accomplished was by using a CSV file and PowerShell. The CSV consisted of two columns. One for the UPN and another for the mobile number. With any script, I...
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...
by edward | Aug 27, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
With the attack on RDP getting more and more each day, many Admins are forced to use remote tools to get onto servers. Managing your exchange 2019 server or legacy servers does not require you to login to the desktop, you can use remote PowerShell and because the...
