Category: Powershell
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Profiting by gaining everything!
What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable? What does it mean to have it all? To me, it means that we’re thinking about the projects that I work on. The goals that I set in my life to conquer or to overcome. And what that means to me is, am I…
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Leader in Following
Are you a leader or a follower? I want you to read into this without reading too deeply. I believe good leaders are followers. So for most things in this day and age, things are a spectrum versus one or the other and that is because we are balance oriented being from our food consumption…
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Faded memories and logos
What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today? So the oldest thing that I’m wearing today is actually my Samsung jacket, and it reminds me a lot of where I’ve come from in the last decade, and it really put into perspective when I started growing in my career at an exponential rate. This is something…
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Founder of the City
Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life. So I wanted to share this information about the foundation of powershell City, was a Chemistry Teacher & Radio Television Teacher from two different high schools I attended in Detroit, MI. Their confidence in my ability to learn and grow was exponential…
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AWS EC2 powerShell tips
Ever find yourself looking for ways to use powerShell? maybe that’s just me. Hahaha Recently I was supporting some EC2 in the cloud testing some new AWS features and services and I found my self locked out and released this machine was not domain joined but I couldn’t login. With the windows PowerShell cmdlets swirling…
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Confluence CVE Vulnerability Checker
Some people host confluence from Atlassian on local infrastructure and no access to the cloud.I was curious if this could be an issue with learning whether or not your version is vulnerable. So here is something I noticed to be helpful to all Confluence admins that want to check and not worry about the deep…
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Disable Bitlocker
Disabling bitlocker with PowerShell is as easy as you might not believe. You must first unlock the drive Unlock-BitLocker -MountPoint D: Then you can do some object juggling to select the one you want fast using tab completion. Something to consider, we know you can do this in the GUI, however the GUI i s…
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Understand the Error of your ways.
We all have different way to accomplish a task that is given to us. Sometimes we make mistakes and we are panicking to fix the errors better know as PowerShell error handling. Sometimes, knowing your mistakes is better than googling or trying to the answers. I’m comfortable with PowerShell, the errors are defined in a…
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Storing Objects and Text.
The best case scenario in my opinion of using variables is to leverage objects. I know some of the users prefer text only, but objects carry much more information, that can be logged or leveraged. Here is an example: Having computer’s name vs and object with multiple properties. The 3 last lines are are magic……
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Using Object properties
A lot of people see PowerShell as conversion tool, but it can do so much more. It can uninstall apps, inventory your applications. Rename files to a standard. Create shares, modify files and sessions and give an Administrator access to a computer without interrupting a session. It is built on .net/c# so it can do…
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