Preventing Petya ransomware with Group Policy
This post and this twitter thread describe a mechanism to prevent the latest ransomware cyber attack from running. It involves creating 1 (or 3) files with a s...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
Remote Desktop Gateway Service – register NPS
I struggled with getting a new Server 2016 Remote Desktop Gateway Service running. I followed the official documentation from Microsoft, configuring two servers...
Moving OneNote notebooks to SharePoint
You may have noticed that Microsoft OneNote displays a little warning for notebooks stored in your Documents folder. This is because Windows computers that are ...
Transitioning from PowerShell ISE to VS Code
Jeffrey Snover has said that all new IDE development is targeting Visual Studio Code. It’s a really nice environment. It also has built-in Git support.
PowerShell pipeline mechanics
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2016/11/21/two-ways-to-accept-pipeline-input-in-powershell/
Windows 10 Wi-Fi – No Internet
SOS!! 22 hours with no wifi!!!! In the past 48 hours, two different family members in different households have reported problems with their Windows 10 laptops&...
Outlook MessageHeaderAnalyzer and Unsubscribe
Microsoft and other providers have published add-ins that provide additional functionality within Outlook and Outlook for web. We have enabled two add-ins which...
Scheduled tasks, PowerShell’s -file parameter, and array values
I wrote a script that accepts a comma-separated list of values, and the script worked just fine from the command-line. However, when I tried to configure a sche...
One-liner: duplicate a folder collection, without files
New fiscal year; new set of empty folders, but with the same structure and permissions as the previous year? Robocopy to the rescue: /e = copy all subdirectorie...
Robocopy file classes
This information comes from the Robocopy.exe documentation PDF file for Windows XP version, but it’s the best description I’ve been able to find. Fr...