Emin Atac is a system administrator who works in a European institution since 2002. He uses PowerShell on a daily basis to automate whenever possible all kind of desktop or server administration tasks from deployment to security compliance. He writes about what he learns and experiences on his blog. You can also follow him on Twitter.
Emin AtacThe goal of this article is to provide a more detailed step by step way of achieving what was recently presented in How to use WDS to PXE Boot a Nano Server VHD post on Nano Server team blog.
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Emin AtacI’ve been recently tasked by the team responsible for user account management to investigate why a user mailbox wasn’t created along with its Active Directory account.
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Emin AtacWe often see the offensive capabilities of PowerShell hit the headlines as it is more attractive. It’s good to know and see what attackers do to penetrate your network, execute code to remain undetected, move laterally, and steal administrative credentials.
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Emin AtacMost of you probably know how to create a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) with the following code: [System.Guid]::NewGuid() But, let’s say, I have a function that has a GUID parameter.
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Emin AtacNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. While reviewing results returned by the Best Practices Analyzer on a virtual machine, a warning about RSS (Receive Side Scaling) was raised.
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Emin AtacWhen you visit Windows Update, you can hide an update to avoid being prompted to install it again at next scan.
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Emin AtacNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Today, a colleague in the network team asked if we could disable the default DNS registration flag (shown below) because our computers are not allowed to update DNS servers directly.
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