Tag: System Administration
Have you checked DNS?
I write this article because three decades of system and network administration have taught me one thing, never underestimate the power of a malfuncti ...
Enable Windows GOD Mode
“God Mode” is a hidden feature in Windows that provides a centralized Control Panel for all of Windows’ settings. Here’s how you can enable it using P ...
Windows Defender Real Time Monitoring Status
PowerShell script that you can use to check the status of Windows Defender’s real-time monitoring on a list of computers from a text file
# Import th ...
Disable/Enable all Network Adapters
PowerShell script that can disable and then enable all network adapters on a computer. Please note that running this script will interrupt all network ...
Remote Windows Computer Inventory
Here’s a PowerShell script that gathers detailed inventory information from a remote computer. This script retrieves information about the operating s ...
Remove installed Windows Updates
This powershell snippet will search for all installed Windows updates and uninstall them one at a time.
$Session = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Up ...
Create Local Administrator Account Remotely
This script can be used to generate a new local administrator account on remote computers (Yes, you have to run it with an account that already ha ...
Changing PWDLASTSET in Active Directory
There are times when you need to make a password policy change that could affect your users, for example let’s say your password policy is currently s ...
Testing SSL and TLS with PowerShell
This is an excellent PowerShell script if you want to test which SSL and TLS protocols are enabled on your webserver. This is extremely important ...
Removing an installed Windows Update
I needed to do this recently when we had a problem with an installed Windows Update that was causing random BSOD on both Server 2008 and Server 2012, ...