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Monitoring Active Directory with the PowerShell module …

The tools included in this module require very little effort to make them work. You can download the module from your PowerShell command prompt. The module works by … See more

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Use DcDiag with PowerShell to check domain controller health

WEBDcdiag does not return objects we can parse and manipulate as we can in PowerShell. Use DcDiag with PowerShell to check domain controller health. To wrap …

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Kubernetes health checks with liveness, readiness, and

WEBKubernetes uses liveness probes to determine when to restart a container. Readiness probes determine whether a container can receive traffic. These probes can …

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Clean up user profiles with PowerShell – 4sysops

WEBThe best way to test this is with a virtual machine that has a few profiles. You may need to wait a few days to “age” them. Then modify the GPO to adjust the number …

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Repair the domain trust relationship with Test

WEBBy using the Test-ComputerSecureChannel cmdlet, we can get a simple true/false output showing whether the local computer can establish trust with the domain controller. By default, running Test-ComputerSecureChannel requires no parameters and returns either True or False. This command also has a Repair parameter to use.

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Azure health services: Track Microsoft cloud outages and

WEBAzure security advisory concerning an infamous Cosmos DB vulnerability. The Service Health dashboard is also a convenient place to review whether Microsoft …

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Analyze DHCP server with PowerShell – 4sysops

WEBTo get statistics on the DHCP service for IPv4 as a whole, use: Get-DhcpServerv4Statistics -ComputerName <MyDHCP>. The statistics contain numbers …

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Monitoring LAPS with Configuration Manager – 4sysops

WEBSelect the Compliance Rules tab and click New. LAPS password age configuration item 4. Change the settings as displayed below to set the compliance to "critical" if the …

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Test Active Directory replication with PowerShell – 4sysops

WEBThis is a cmdlet that's useful to get more granular and dive down into the actual objects themselves. Get-ADReplicationAttributeMetadata -Object …

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WSUS reporting with PowerShell – 4sysops

WEB4sysops - The online community for SysAdmins and DevOps. If you quickly want to find out if a particular update has been installed on all of your machines, the built-in reporting of …

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VMware vSphere 7 performance and monitoring tools – 4sysops

WEBVMware vSphere 7 offers several built-in tools and utilities to monitor performance. You can use the vSphere client performance charts where you can view …

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Automating WSUS with PowerShell – 4sysops

WEBAutomating WSUS update approval. The next task I'm going to automate is the approval of updates. WSUS offers automatic approval. However, it is quite inflexible, so I wrote the …

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Perform Active Directory security assessment using PowerShell

WEBThe script gets the dynamic inputs from a file called config.ini. Edit the INI file according to your environment. The script and the INI file should be placed in the same …

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Check Azure VM status with PowerShell – 4sysops

WEBExtra credit : Obtain Azure VM uptime. What if we want to determine how long a particular Windows Server VM in Azure has been up? We can use PowerShell and Azure …

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DISM command overview: Service images, repair Windows, and

WEBEvery admin knows the usage of Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) for mounting and customizing Windows images. DISM is a …

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Managing inactive and obsolete clients in SCCM Current Branch

WEBA few years ago, we published a detailed guide on managing inactive clients in SCCM 2012. With two SCCM Current Branches (1511 and 1602) under our belt, now …

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Fix Settings app crashes in Windows 10 and Windows 11

WEBClick the Start button and type Settings. Opening the app settings for the Settings app. Scroll down to the Reset section, and click the Repair button. Windows …

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What is VMware Skyline Health for vSphere

WEBSkyline Health is accessible through the vSphere Dashboard in vCenter Server. In fact, since vSphere 6.7 Update 3b there is a new menu entry called Skyline …

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Block or force upgrade to Windows 11 with Group Policy

WEBThe setting Remove access to use all Windows Update features achieves this goal. It can be found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative …

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