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Tag Archives: powershell
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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Connection State Announcer
I’ve been having some very annoying problems with my home broadband where the connection keeps dropping every few minutes. I wrote this quick script to monitor a site on the internet and tell me when it can’t be reached anymore, … Continue reading
Posted in Networking, PowerShell, Windows
Tagged powershell, speechsynthesizer, state change, system.speech, test-connection
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Standard user launching a command with elevated credentials
I needed standard users to be able to run certain executables with administrator credentials, but ideally without wanting to give them an administrator account and password, and certainly without adding them to the Administrators group. I also needed a log … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Windows
Tagged admin, administrator, application, elevated, event, execute, get-winevent, launch, log, new-eventlog, powershell, privilege, regular, run, standard, task, user, write-eventlog
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