When you are using Active Directory Powershell cmdlets such as Get-ADDomainController, Get-ADUser, Get-ADComputer, Get-ADObject, you may receive the following error message: Such an exception is linked to the difficulty those commands have to work in a multi-domain environment, whether that multi-domain be a single forest with multiple child domains, various […]
The use of Install-Module and Update-Module has become a routine task for many Powershell administrators these days. Lately if you applied those commands, you may have received warnings and errors even from well-known sources. Messages include: If you look at the resource or the web site, the package stills exists […]
The documentation for the powershell cmdlet Get-Certificate only use generic examples. In this post, let’s see the Get-Certificate usage for Web Server. In our scenario, you have an Enterprise CA whose service is published under the name ‘My Company SubCA I’. You also have duplicated the Web Server template under […]
Some applications create a lot of shortcuts and sometimes you wonder what differences between them are. Or they are created at a locatoin you don’t find practical and want to create them elsewhere. You could click on each shortcut and copy paste the information but so let’s see how to […]
Although the Remote Management is enabled by default starting with Windows Server 2012, the RDP access isn’t. To enable RDP with Powershell, you have two steps to perform: Enable the RDP Access Enable the inbound firewall rules Here’s the code:
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# 1. Enable Remote Desktop (Get-WmiObject Win32_TerminalServiceSetting -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices).SetAllowTsConnections(1,1) (Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_TSGeneralSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices -Filter "TerminalName='RDP-tcp'").SetUserAuthenticationRequired(0) # 2. Enable the firewall rule Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Remote Desktop" |
The second line allows you to specify if you […]
This post has for goal to list all techniques you can use to get remote access to Windows. Depending on your situation (white hacking, strange corporate DMZ, …) this could help you to test and accomplish your various goals: copying a file, running a process, etc. PSExec PsExec is a […]
In Sharepoint sometimes users have difficulties to grasp the permissions system. You may have to change users membership quite a few times because ‘user X must have the same rights as User Y’. If you have more thtan a couple of users, it can become quickly very boring. The following […]
In this blog post, let’s see what you should do if you get during DHCP Unauthorize: There is no such object on the server error message, DHCP Authorize / Unauthorize As you probably know, a DHCP Server must be authorized in an Active Directory to start delivering addresses. This is […]
Working in big AD forests and domains can be sometimes challenging, as powershell cmdlets require you perfect identity matches. In an AD of a global corporation, where you have tons of John, Sam, Doe, Smith, Martin, Schmidt , finding that information may be time consuming: is the name given a first […]
As you may know, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the way Microsoft has made available many API available since Windows XP over the time. Creating a WMI class can be a tedious class but creating a WMI class from registry entries is in contrast fairly easy. Creating one’s own WMI […]
