To get the IP addresses of the remote desktop sessions behind a Remote Desktop Gateway, you need to open RD Gateway Manager, go to Monitoring section and check each of the connected sessions to find their IP addresses. If you want to look further for their geolocations as well, you would search the IP address in one of the geolocation […]
Reset the local admin password the other day and I needed to find out all services that rely on the local admin account to run so no interruption would happen after the reboot. Obviously, the easiest way to find out is using PowerShell. But how? I first tried the Get-Service cmdlet but found that it doesn’t return the value for […]
When a PowerShell script takes long time to finish, it’s nice to have some sort of notification set up in place to notify you when the job is finished. Here are three type of notifications you can create in PowerShell. Notify via Email PowerShell has a native cmdlet Send-MailMessage that can be easily set up and use. I have written […]
I have an imaging system that uses the command line imagex to build and apply images to install new computers. It’s relatively easy to set up and works quite efficiently. Because it’s using Microsoft’s own Windows Image Files (WIM) format, it’s also easy to mount to not only read but update files in the image file. You can even install […]
I have a folder full of obsolete roaming profile folders that I really want to tidy up. Due to the very restrict folder permissions on these folders, I found it would be a lot faster and easier if I can impersonate an individual user on the server and perform the archive job using RoboCopy command line. The built-in “RunAs” seems […]
As time goes on, the computer accounts in your AD could be getting quite messy. More and more computer accounts became obsolete as their physical counterpart gets disposed. At one point, a cleaning job is due to be performed to clean up the mess. There are probably a lot of ways but here is a PowerShell way that is pretty […]
I used to think sound equalizer isn’t necessary for my music enjoyment. If I have a good pair of headphone or speakers I could get the most enjoyment out of it. Well, having a well-tuned sound EQ on top of that can make the music enjoyment even more. But since Windows 10 or any previous Windows version don’t have EQ […]
I have a Remote Desktop Services running on Windows Server 2012. Users who have the access to that server have the roaming profile set up but every time when they log off a warning message displays on the screen saying that: Your roaming user profile was not completely synchronized. See the event log for details or contact administrator. By checking […]