March 09, 2020
I’m undertaking a project where one of of the tasks involves processing some 350,000 XML files. If each file takes one second to process that’s just over 4 days, which is not a particularly appealing length of time. I’ve been working on improving performance by implementing…
February 24, 2020
A few people have asked if it was possible to run PSKindleWatch as a Windows service. This is a guide on how to accomplish that using NSSM. To be clear, this method can be used to run any PowerShell script as a Windows service, but we’ll use PSKindleWatch an an example. The…
February 14, 2020
Wireshark is a packet capture and analysis tool, however, not as well known is the command line version that is bundled into the install - tshark. One huge advantage of tshark is its ability to write packet data directly to disk, which avoids a common issue with leaving Wireshark…
January 28, 2020
This recently cropped up when I was running some auditing scripts to ensure Domain/Enterprise/etc Admins were part of the Protected Users group. It was a simple script that pulled members from the privileged groups, and compared them to members of the Protected Users group. Quick…
January 21, 2020
Quick one today (won’t even need a TL;DR), with Windows 7 no longer supported (ESU program being the exception) we’re all making sure either existing or new clients have no leftover machines on the domain. Here is a quick PowerShell snippet to find any Win 7 machines that have…
January 20, 2020
TL;DR If you’re monitoring for NtFrs Event Id 13568, you should also monitor for NtFrs Event Id 13561. But why? Most of us that look after AD environments are familiar with NtFrs Event Id 13568 - maybe not the number itself (because what kind of masochist forces themselves to…
January 13, 2020
Chrome extensions are one of those toys which once you learn to develop it’s hard to stop. I’ve written a bunch of small improvements to various sites I visit on a regular basis, usually simple changes, but one recent endeavour had me scratching my head for a bit. Isolated Worlds…
January 11, 2020
In the event that you encounter the error in the title while running Veeam Endpoint Backup (Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows) it most likely means that your backups will cease to work, as mine have. The issue appears to be a flag set in the Veeam database which informs Veeam…