Recently I built an NPS server for Radius authentication, and had to dual home it with one NIC in the DMZ and one on the production network. I wanted to firewall everything on the DMZ interface but not affect the production interface. That way I could then allow the traffic I wanted to enable on…
This simple Powershell script will carry out a quick check against each IP in a 24 bit subnet and return a value of true or false dependent on whether or not it receives a reply. It’s similar to using an IP scanner or a ping script.
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[cc lang="powershell"]$subnet = "10.20.6." 1..254 | Foreach-Object {write-host "$Subnet$_…" (Test-Connection -ComputerName "$Subnet$_" -Quiet -Count 1 ) }[/cc] |
It’s simple and does the job as it…
This is a very obscure problem, so I’m recording this more for my own reference in future rather than expecting anyone else to have the same issue! The issue occurs when a migration from a hybrid exchange domain to another domain which uses AD Sync has been completed in the following manner: filter/delete user in…
BIOS-to-UEFI group – this group will only run if the machine has booted from BIOS rather than UEFI I’ve then added a message specific for a certain model of laptops that require a BIOS downgrade for reasons I’ll not go into. The selection criteria as a WMI query and the message box is displayed underneath.…
This script is used within the SCCM task sequence and performs two functions. Firstly it determines whether or not the machine is a Hyper-V VM, and if it is, it assigns a task sequence variable called “PSisVM”. This is useful to hold in the TS as there are certain things that only need to be…
Here’s a script I’ve written that can be added as a scheduled task on the SCVMM server to send a daily report to selected people containing all the currently outstanding checkpoints on the Hyper-V hosts. This is done without having to store any plain text passwords (they are stored but in an encrypted format). It…