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...
Tag: administration
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...
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...
Readable System Event logs
I think I’m not alone in finding the Service Control Manager logs so many informational events as to make it hard to read the important events in the Syst...
TechEd 2014: Deploying MBAM 2.5
For my reference, a video of a session I missed at TechEd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFhJGVgAto Also available via Microsoft Channel 9 ( downloads availa...
Get-PrintJobs.ps1 PowerShell script
After a recent upgrade of our print servers, I discovered that the Print Spooler service event logging had been enhanced, and changed enough that some PowerShe...
Set default printer with PowerShell
Closely related to my previous post, this simple script uses a WScript.Network COM object to set the default printer. The comment block is longer than the scrip...
Add network printer with PowerShell
This is my PowerShwell translation of my colleague’s VBScript solution for mapping network printers with a script. For use with Group Policy, it will prob...
Updating firewall rules with netsh
I needed to adjust the scope of a built-in firewall rule in a couple of servers, restricting the remote IPs to a list of UVM subnets in CIDR notation. The netsh...
Who’s logged into Server 2012?
I’m severely disappointed that Microsoft has removed from Server 2012 the tools required for managing and configuring Remote Desktop for Administration. O...