I usually hit Winkey and start typing whatever it is I’m looking to start; be it a command prompt, Outlook, explorer, or other installed applications and I rarely (read: never) use it for searching the internet. Sometimes search gets “stuck”… because it’s crashing in the background. Here’s a method to improve performance and reliability of…
Read More Improving Performance and Reliability of Windows Searchczkawka tool to find duplicates works pretty well. I ran it against my NAS as I want to migrate data from that aging device to a new device and figured I would take the time to clean up many duplicate files. I have a previous post from the other day that details some of my journey with it…
Read More Bulk Delete Duplicate Files Using czkawkas Results FileI came across a nice tool named czkawka that “is a simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer.” I want to use this against an old NAS drive with tens of thousands of photos (and files) to find the duplicates and clean them up so I can move the 2TB of data…
Read More czkawka – Scan a NAS in WindowsI thought I had typed this up at one point, but apparently I can’t find it on the blog. Here’s the steps I take to install and renew SSL certificates for ServiceDeskPlus MSP using LetsEncrypt. I’ve adapted these notes for public consumption. My environment is a Windows Server that hosts the SDP MSP instance. On…
Read More LetsEncrypt with ServiceDeskPlusThe PowerShell script is designed to extract information about Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) local session manager events from the Windows event logs on a RDS host and save it to a CSV file. Script: Get events with EventID 40 from Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational Event Log $RDPAuths = Get-WinEvent -LogName ‘Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational’-FilterXPath ‘<QueryList><Query Id=”0″><Select>*[System[EventID=40]]</Select></Query></QueryList>’ [xml[]]$xml = $RDPAuths | ForEach-Object…
Read More Analyze RDP Disconnection Logs using PowerShellHad an idea to extract all the unique words from my blog post titles and sort and rank them by frequency. I used MySQL, sed, tr, grep, cat and a little bash script hacked together to do this. Here’s the top 10 unique words in my blog post titles. Occurrences Word 150 Windows 46 Server…
Read More Extracting unique words from all my blog post titlesWorking with some older Cisco ASA devices, I’m trying to access the ASDM interface. The browser isn’t giving me luck, so I turned to PowerShell to help me, but I get the following error when trying an Invoke-WebRequest to grab the asdm.jnlp file I need. The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the…
Read More Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.This PowerShell script retrieves information about enabled Active Directory (AD) users, including their SAM account name, last logon time, and organizational unit (OU). The script makes use of several cmdlets and concepts that are common in PowerShell, including filtering, selecting, sorting, and transforming data. Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties lastLogon | Where-Object { $_.Enabled -eq $True…
Read More Get Enabled AD Users with Last Logon Time and Organizational Unit InformationI’m working on a side project that is a portscan utility written in VB.net. Here’s my progress so far, and it is working. There’s some way to go on this little project. I think I can optimize it further, clean up the code, and fix my logic for many of the options. See an earlier…
Read More Writing a portscan utility in .NETHandling commandline arguments in VB.NET (or really anything) can be tricky. I came across the following class the other day while looking for a drop-in solution to a RAD I was developing. Here’s what my usage shows for my application, thanks to the .NET class. portscan.exe portscan 0.9.2 by Rich Kreider Usage: portscan -h <host>…
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