If your journey into Azure is anything like mine you started off wanting to write some simple PowerShell automation or reporting, probably for Azure AD or Microsoft 365, and went searching for how to create service accounts. This led you to service principals, which then led you…

Quick and short post today - we’re going to be retrieving the current Cumulative Update (CU) level of Exchange servers. There are already a ton of articles covering this but they all have one problem, they extract the Exchange build number using PowerShell and then ask you to…

There are several ways to get a list of local administrators on a Windows system - be it a server or a client, but the accuracy of the data returned can vary based on the method and whether there is domain controller reachability (assuming the system in question is domain joined…

I recently had an issue with a Netgear ReadyNAS where following a clean shutdown the encrypted volume would no longer mount during boot. All the expected tricks were tried - different USB thumb drive with the key, different USB port, etc. The device would boot, find the…

If you’re seeing issues with ESXi hosts disconnecting from vCenter every ~60 seconds for a very brief period of time and immediately reconnecting, while not having any impact on VM network traffic (i.e., nothing else is going offline or dropping packet’s), read on. Chances are…

Today I want to write about a few of the tricks I’ve picked up for migrating DNS servers in a Windows AD environment with minimal pain and unexpected service interruptions due to forgotten devices that were pointing to the soon to be gone DNS server. The scenario is that you’ve…

There has been a lot of uncertainty around CVE-2021-34527, dubbed ‘PrintNightmare’. From whether the released out-of-band patches work, to GPO settings & associated registry values which allow the mitigation in the patch to be bypassed, and arguments regarding whether these GPO…

I recently purchased a Logitech keyboard and while I didn’t particularly care for the macro keys I decided to look into whether I could program them to control HomeAssistant. This proved to be rather painless but there are a few steps necessary so I wanted to throw up a short…