Ivan's Corner

Category: Windows

  • Simple PowerShell Account Creation script

    Simple PowerShell Account Creation script

    Recently I was inspired by the excellent Master User Creator, which we cannot use, and I had some free time, so I decided to create something simple, but still useful for my service desk guys. I ended with following script – combination of PowerShell , Mahapps and XAML. Script requires PowerShell 7, installed RSAT tools…

  • Lazy Exchange On-Premises Mailbox Creator

    One of the ways to use shared mailbox with exchange is to grant “Full Access” and “Send As” access through security group. With the latest exchange security group must be universal and mail enabled. Recently I had to create bunch of mailboxes and found the process… repeating and boring, then I decided that there must…

  • Get size of all items in current path

    I was looking for an easy way to get the size of all user profiles folder through PowerShell and found this woshub and inspired by it ended with the following function which measures the size of everything in current path if used without parameter. Made it a function just to be able to autoload it.…

  • PSWriteHTML is awesome

    Recently I was playing with the excellent PSWriteHTML powershell module and ended up creating a dashboard from events. Since I had a hard time going through all of the dashboard option, I’ve decided to share what I did, may be it will help someone. The example script requires PSWriteHTML module installed. Event properties I got…

  • PowerShell HTML System Report

    I’ve been playing with HTML in PowerShell and ended creating not so bad script including function that creates HTML report with system info for a remote computer/server. In includes Operating System, CPU, Memory and Hard Disk, CD-Rom Info which are exported to a html file. It’s not a piece of art, have some basic error…

  • Microsoft Windows Security Audit Event Accesses IDs

    I’m working on a powershell script extracting the file server audit log and creating a human readable html out of it when I got stumbled by the beautiful codes below (which are really hard to find) and decided that they deserve a re-post. Thanks to this guy for translating them. The list below is from…

  • Windows 10 search not working

    After the October patch Tuesday taskbar search suddenly stopped working along with the search itself – when something was typed search simply disappears, taskbar turns black/empty. I found in the log  the following errors: Faulting application name: SearchUI.exe, version: 10.0.14393.953, time stamp: 0x58ba5a2f Faulting module name: SearchUI.exe, version: 10.0.14393.953, time stamp: 0x58ba5a2f Exception code: 0xc000027b…

  • No Internet Access Icon Windows 7/2008

    Today I had to do this for an isolated network, it was a great reminder 🙂 https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/5a69ed0c-2fcf-483c-ab1d-ad5b16fa32ca/isolated-network-without-internet-access-how-do-i-make-the-yellow-no-internet-access-icon-go?forum=w7itpronetworking I had some missing GPO templates (2008 R2 server) which are easily obtained from Microsoft Installation is straight forward and explained under Install Instructions. And yes, you need both policies enabled.

  • Reopen Closed PowerShell Window – Server Core

    Few days ago I managed to close my powershell window during an remote desktop session to a core server and I stumbled silly into the empty screen 🙂 After googling for a  while I learned that your savior in this situation is: CTRL + ALT + END Give it a try, it is really worthy!

  • Windows 10 Privacy

    If you are using Windows 10, do yourself a favor and just use this tool http://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/