Finding machines in Active Directory is pretty easy using the Get-ADComputer commandlet. You can specify what to find by any number of parameters. For example, the most basic use of the commandlet is: Get-ADComputer -Filter * The above code will return all Active Directory computer objects. But lets say you are in the process of upgrading operating systems across the domain, and… Read More »
Just a quick PowerShell one-liner to display all the shutdown events on a computer.
When you are building a Windows server from the command line, GUI interfaces are not available. Here are two methods of setting IP configuration from the command line.
If you’re standing up a new domain, this bit of PowerShell will get you there without the need to run through the wizard.
You can speed up the entry of data in to your word documents by leveraging keyboard shortcuts.
Ever get tired of adding a signature block to an email? Typing your name and other info every time you write an email? Here is how to get rid of that tedium with Outlook for the web.
Let’s say one of the production servers got rebooted unexpectedly and you would like to find out who rebooted it and when the server got rebooted. In PowerShell, you can take a look at the event log using the PowerShell one-liner command shown below. You don’t need to write a bunch of lines in a script and then… Read More »
Sometimes you are unable to connect to a printer via the print server. Maybe your driver is unavailable, or for some reason you may not have rights to print to that printer. You can bypass the print server, most times, and print directly to a network printer.
XPFrame solves well known problem of standard frame’s behaviour with XP styles (see screenshot bellow). This control looks like .NET GroupBox under Windows XP or like VB Frame under early systems. Demo project is included.
This class encrypts/decrypts data with MD5 hashing and RC4 encrypting algorithms using Windows CryptoAPI functions.