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Tag Archives: powershell
GUI to log off Remote Desktop users by non-admins
I’ve blogged about the issues with the well-intentioned but ill-though-out Remote Desktop Management Server concept in Windows Server 2012 (inc R2) before, trying to come up with workarounds to all the things you used to be able to do easily … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Remote Desktop, Windows
Tagged delegate, gridview, log off, logoff, powershell, query user, quser, rds, remote desktop, terminal server, terminal services, tsadmin
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Function to invoke PowerShell ISE from shell
Another little function to add to your PowerShell profile. If you’re in the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment you can use the command psedit <filename> to open the file in the ISE editor – and it doesn’t just have to be … Continue reading
Get Uptime with Get-Uptime
I’ve been using this for ages, and have now finally got around to a) blogging it, and b) updating it to use Get-CimInstance. The latter makes it particularly easy to code and thus makes the function very compact due to … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell
Tagged cim, get-ciminstance, get-uptime, lastbootuptime, powershell, up time, uptime
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Remote PowerShell to an IP Address
PowerShell remoting works over the WS-Man protocol, which in Windows is implemented via WinRM. By default this uses Kerberos authentication, and in most domain environments everything “just works”. If the machine isn’t correctly registered in DNS you’ll get an error: … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell
Tagged credential, enter-pssession, powershell, remote, trustedhosts, winrm, ws-man
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Collect user and group SIDs and names from Active Directory
Ever found yourself looking through the Access Control List of a file/folder/share and mixed in along with the group names (hopefully not user names!) you see some SIDs? These look something like S-1-5-21-0123456789-0123456789-0123456789-0123. These are the Security IDs of deleted … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Security, Windows
Tagged active directory, lookup, powershell, sid, store, windows, xml
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Change BitLocker Recovery Password with PowerShell
When BitLocker detects certain changes to the computer it’ll trigger Recovery Mode, and prompt for the Recovery Password. Likewise, you also need the recovery password if you need to access the encrypted disk from another machine or via Windows Recovery … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Security, Windows
Tagged add-bitlockerkeyprotector, bitlocker, change, get-bitlockervolume, password, powershell, recovery, remove-bitlockerkeyprotector, reset, windows
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Get or update SysInternals tools with PowerShell
This is version 2 – the previous version relied on mapping a new PSDrive directly to \\live.sysinternals.com\tools which made things easy, but that no longer seems to work (or at least not for me, might be my web filtering blocking … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Windows
Tagged invoke-webrequest, powershell, regex, sysinternals, tools, utilities, windows
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Network List Manager in PowerShell
I’m writing a network diagnostic script, and wanted to use the network status and connectivity information that’s already been captured by the Network List Manager (NLM). The code for pulling various bits of info is below. NLM_Connectivity was a good opportunity to … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell
Tagged band, enum, flag, hashtable, location, manager, network, network location manager, nlm, powershell
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