A Reddit user raised this great question today that I am not aware of. So I did a little research and here is the breakdown of what it is. What is KRBTGT? The KRBTGT is a local default account that acts as a service account for the Key Distribution Center (KDC) service. It’s created automatically when a new domain is […]
After watching a webinar recently where the presenter was using Visual Studio Code to run PowerShell codes he prepared for the demo, it strikes me that maybe it’s time to ditch PowerShell ISE and start using Visual Studio Code for all my coding needs. Setting up VS Code for PowerShell turns out super easy. First, download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com […]
On an Active Directory Domain with multiple GPOs in place, it’s nice having a way that can generate reports in various situations. Group Policies applied to my account and computer There is a built-in tool called Resultant Set of Policy (rsop.msc) that scans all active policies and displays them all in a window similar to Group Policy Editor. You will […]
We always use command lines like PING to get the IP address assigned to a specific domain DNS. For example, to get the IP address of google.com, we use: ping google.com As you can see, this only returns one of IP addresses assigned to google.com. To get the full list of IP addresses associated with google.com, you need to use […]
Other than open every single installed printer to print test pages, here is a much better way that you can do it all at once. Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName PrintTestPage If you only want to certain printers, use the -Filter switch. Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer -Filter “Name LIKE ‘*name*’ | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName PrintTestPage You can even use Get-Printer cmdlet to pick […]
Instead of looking for a tool, there is a very quick and easy way that lets me ping a wild range of IPs to find out which IPs are free and which ones have been taken, using the PowerShell built-in cmdlet Test-Connection. And here is how: Copy the code over to PowerShell ISE console, change the IP info and hit […]
When querying a PowerShell object, it only returns a few essential properties by default. For example, querying the W32_ComputerSystem class with Get-WmiObject cmdlet only returns properties like Manufacturer, ComputerName, TotalPhysicalMemory, etc. To get the full list of the properties of Win32_ComputerSystem class, you can pipe the result to Format-List, like below. Get-WmiObject -Class “Win32_ComputerSystem” | Format-List * You can even […]
Have you ever seen the timestamp format like this and wondered how it’s equivalent to the normal DateTime format? It’s the date/time value stored in Active Directory as the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since the 0 hours on January 1, 1601, until the date/time that is being stored. It’s always in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, aka. GMT) […]