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Date Posted: 2020-04-05 02:15:00 +0000
Date Updated: 2020-04-05 02:15:00 +0000
1 min read.
PowerShell Function to Get Employee Details
The ActiveDirectory module comes with the Get-ADUser commandlet that provides useful information about a user, but the default output does not include some of the properties that I find most useful. Therefore, it requires the returned User object to be piped to Select-Object with the desired properties specified like so: Get-ADUser john.doe | Select-Object Department, Title, LockedOut. If you know which properties you want on a regular basis, consider adding this function (or similar) to your PowerShell profile.Read more...
Date Posted: 2018-09-19 20:19:00 +0000
Date Updated: 2018-09-19 20:19:00 +0000
1 min read.
Custom Alernatives to Measure-Object
PowerShell provides a built-in method for most objects to count the number of items in that object. Also, PowerShell comes with the Measure-Object commandlet. But, what if those don’t quite suit your needs and you want to be able to pipe an object to a single function to do the work for you? Read on to see a few alternatives to .Count and Measure-Object.Read more...
Date Posted: 2018-08-23 14:39:00 +0000
Date Updated: 2018-08-23 14:39:00 +0000
3 min read.
Adding an nslookup Pivot to Squert
If you’ve ever used Security Onion, you’ve undoubtedly used Squert. Squert is a web interface for managing events in Security Onion. Each event must have a source and a destination IP address, by nature. And this is how they are displayed in Squert, by IP address. What if you want to know what the hostnames are, though?Read more...
Date Posted: 2018-07-11 14:52:02 +0000
Date Updated: 2018-07-11 14:52:02 +0000
2 min read.
Configuring a DSC Pull Server with HTTPS on Windows Server Core 2016
After learning about DSC Pull Servers, I immediately wanted to get one up and running, however, I tend to want to do things right the first time if I can. That being said, I didn’t want to create a pull server with SMB to test, and then one with HTTP, and then one with HTTPS after. I knew I wanted HTTPS to start with, so I set out to do just that. Things quickly became complicated because I decided to do this on Windows Server Core 2016…Read more...