In this short article I will show how to list all logged on local users with the quser.exe tool. Quser displays information about logged on users on the local computer and on […]
List all logged on Users with quser.exe and PowerShell
PowerShell: Decrypt a Secure String
In this blog post I will carry out how to decrypt a secure string. A secure string is a string that is saved in a non-readable format to temporarily store passwords and […]
Monitoring Logon Attempts in Active Directory with PowerShell
Domain-Controllers monitor successful logon attempts by default. All events of all login attempts are logged in the Event Viewer. In this article I will cover how to monitor all logon events with […]
Microsoft 365: Find Users Last Logon Time (Orphaned User Accounts)
You want to find out the last logon time of your Microsoft 365 user accounts? If so, the right way to do this is using PowerShell. In this blog post I will […]
Microsoft 365: List Mailbox Permissions (AllUser)
With Microsoft Outlook, users can assign permissions to other users in the same organization. The same goes to Microsoft 365 tenant administrators. They can also grant mailbox privileges to other identities. How […]
Microsoft 365: Find and Show Active Sync Users
Active Sync allows users to connect their smartphone with Microsoft 365, respectively Exchange Online. Do you know which users have this feature enabled? If not, read on. I will give you a […]
Video: PowerShell 7 Cmdlets as a replacement for ping, arp, traceroute and nmap
Hi PowerShell fellows, In this video I show you how to use PowerShell 7 cmdlets for various network tasks. Find the code samples at the very bottom. Hope you enjoy it!
Microsoft 365: List Send and SendAs Permissions of all Users
This is another blog post about Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online. This time I will dedicate myself to a feature that is Outlook and Exchange related. What I am talking about is […]
List all Server Roles from all Windows Servers with PowerShell
So you are about to document your network and os environment? You don’t want to purchase 3rd party software? You want to list all server roles from all servers in your network? […]
Microsoft 365: Show Mailboxes that have Auto-Reply enabled
Mailbox auto-reply settings are usually created and defined by the users himself. If you want to get an overview of the auto-reply settings of your organization you have to ask every user: […]
Test-Connection (ping) with PowerShell 7
In one of my previous articles I dedicated myself to the modern version of ping called Test-Connection. I recently discovered that the cmdlet in PowerShell Core 7 offers more parameters than in […]
Active Directory: Changing Default Password and Lockout Policies
Default Domain Policy password policies determine the complexity and minimum length of Active Directory domain passwords. Because the preconfigured default settings are suboptimal, many administrators decide to change the default policy settings. […]
PowerShell: Retrieve and monitor System Time of all Computers with Get-Time
Do you have problems with time synchronization in your Active Directory domain or are you only interested in monitoring and determining the system time of your servers, workstations or domain-controllers? If your […]
Windows 10: Deny Windows Store Access and Disable all Apps from Microsoft Store with Group Policies
With the release of Windows 10, Microsofts Client-Operating System has become more and more an app-focused operating system. Windows 10 S underlines that. In Windows 10 S, users can only install apps […]
Server Core 2019: Installing Features on Demand (FOD)
At least since the introduction of Windows Server the Windows world has changed dramatically. No excuses anymore for administrators, because if they are struggling with the huge amount of Windows updates, it’s […]
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