The Elephant and The King
Almost every thanksgiving I hear the story of the elephant and the king. The person who tells this story tells it because they want to part some of their experience with us. This story is designed to help…
Fact Prank with Powershell
I love a good prank. Sometimes pranks need to challenge us. I coded a good prank and it requires a scheduled task and a little bit of PowerShell. The idea behind the prank is the computer will alert…
Batch – Chrome and Self-built URLs
A previous job of mine had a unique issue. Unstandardized google chromes and self-generated icons. Both of these issues caused a lot of heartaches. Today I will show you how I solved the issue of unstandardized google chromes…
Group Policy How-To – Folders
Whenever we get a new client, one of the first things we do is create a new folder on the root of C called temp. If that client has a group policy we create a policy just for…
Powershell HTML Reports
From time to time, you will be asked to create a web report with data that can only be easily obtained by PowerShell. There are hundreds of modules out there that can do this, which is very nice.…
Faith and Recovery
“ What is authentic faith? Is it a positive outlook on life? A holy hoping for the best? Is that how we see faith? That’s how I have seen faith. No authentic faith is the confident assurance in…
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Stale DNS
This one was a fun one that really threw me for a loop. DNS is an issue no matter where you go. Recently facebook showed the world how DNS can take everything down. DNS in your domain is…
Enable/Disable/Reset MFA with Powershell
How does one enable, disable, and reset a user’s MFA in Office 365? I was surprised by how much is required for enabling MFA. Enable MFA The first thing we do is Get the User from the Get-MsolUser.…
What depression feels like
Tis, Failure I feel,Conceal, Don’t Feel, Relinquish,Emotions Congealed.
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Delegation
A while back, a client called and told me he made a few new group policies, and they were not working as expected. He stated some policies applied to the wrong users, while another didn’t apply at all…