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Copy A User’s Group to Other Users

By david October 12, 2020Help Desk, Information Technology, PowerShellCopy, Groups, PowerShell, SHDNo Comments

Often times I am asked to give user a the same rights as user b. Since everything is setup with groups, this is easy to do. All I have to…

Get Lock Out Info From DC

By david October 11, 2020Help Desk, Information Technology, PowerShell, Uncategorized4740, DC, Lock Out, Locked Out Logs, LockedOut, Logs, PowerShell, SHDNo Comments

Have you ever had trouble getting lockout information for a single user? The DCs have the logs, but getting them can be tough. The core idea is to use the…

Mental Health Links

By david October 9, 2020ResourcesLink Page, Mental health, ResourcesNo Comments

Rest Relax with this video - 10 MinutesRelax with this video - 5 minutes Suicide Awareness and Hotlines American Foundation for Suicide PreventionSuicide Awareness Voices of EducationSuicide: Read This First…

Access PDQ Info with Powershell

By david September 30, 2020Information Technology, PDQ, PowerShellPDQ, PDQ Inventory, PowerShell, SQLiteNo Comments

You read that right, access PDQ information with PowerShell. You will need the PS SQL Lite module first. This module will allow you to access the SQL lite server. The…

Ping a /24 Subnet with Powershell

By david September 29, 2020Information Technology, PowerShellOne-Liner, Ping Subnet, PowerShellNo Comments

A friend asked me how to ping a /24 subnet the other day. I thought it would be a good little blog post. This is a one-liner. Here we go.…

Mitel Director NCC logs

By david September 29, 2020Information Technology, PBX SystemsGeneral Info, Logs, Mitel, NCC, Reading Logs, Shoretel, TMCNo Comments

One of the things that have helped me throughout my struggles with Mitel/Shoretel is the NCC logs inside the shoreline data folder. These logs can be hard to read, and…

Local Site Found by a Universal device

By david September 29, 2020Help Desk, Information Technology, PowerShellBatch, Local Links, PowerShell, RoamingNo Comments

We have multiple locations with backup hosted sites. These sites are designed to allow the end-user to access the information they need when the network is down. They are set…

Password Notifications

By david September 22, 2020Information Technology, PowerShell, ResourcesEmail, Emails, IT Resource, Notifications, Password, Password Notification, ResourcesNo Comments

I wanted to share a little script that has changed the world at my current company. It's a simple password email notification script. What it does is grabs the users'…

PSBoundParameters – Credentials

By david September 21, 2020Information Technology, PowerShell$PsBoundParameters.ContainsKey(), Contains, Key, PowerShell, Powershell TricksNo Comments

The PSBoundParameter is an amazing tool that will clear your mind of worries about non-mandatory parameter sets. In my Super Help Desk module I use the credential flag. Inside this…

SHD – Disable Inactive Users

By david September 13, 2020Help Desk, Information Technology, PowerShellDisable Users, Inactive Users, SHD1 Comment

Now we have a way to find the disable OU, and to disable a user, now it's time to disable old accounts. We do this by targeting the Last Logon…