Powershell – Open File Dialog
I was building a script for my manager the other day and inside the script, he wanted us to triple check the naming of a file path. He went as far as to have us copy the file…
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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…
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.…
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.…
Test Microsoft Service Connections
This past week I have had multiple terminals up with different clients on different terminals connected to different Microsoft services. I quickly realized that I needed to know if I was already connected or not to each Microsoft…
Find Duplicates in an Array
Need to find duplicates in an array? It’s as simple as using a group object. So we take an array, and group the array by property or group of properties. Then we search those groups for any group…
Playing with Logs – Regex
Working with strings in logs can be a challenge, here is how to pull the IP address and Mac address along with some other useful tips.
Resolve a Site name to Geo Location
With everything that happened with Facebook yesterday, I began to wonder where does my query goes when I type in facebook.com. So, I did a few things and found out. The first thing I did was resolve the…
Datamuse API and PowerShell
There are 171,476 or so words in the English language. This doesn’t include names or other items. Datamuse is a very powerful database of English words. It contains rhyming, like, anonymous, Synonyms and much more. What I like…
Embed Files into Powershell Scripts
Do you have a zip file or an msi file that you need to embed into a powershell script for deployment. This is a quick and simple way to do this. The method is pretty sound and works…