You can hook Terraform into Azure with the following requirements: client_id, Azure counterpart is Application ID within AAD directory application. client_secret, Password Keys within AAD directory application. tenant_id, AAD Directory ID. subscription_id, Azure Subscription ID. Once we gather above details, we can then proceed to write our Provider function within our Terraform script.   Below … Continue reading How to hook Terraform into Azure

You may encounter issues on Windows Server when surfing the web, SSL certificates appear to be invalid, even though your locale/region settings and date/time are correct. In this scenario; Generate a root certificate SST file (from a working computer **IMPORTANT**) using the following command certutil.exe -generateSSTFromWU roots.sst Transfer newly generated roots.sst file to affected computer/server … Continue reading Updating Root Certificates on Windows Server

You can connect iSCSI Targets in Windows using PowerShell which is a handy technique for volumes which are encrypted with authentication; As these volumes will not automatically connect at system startup, even if they are within iSCSI Initiator's Favorite Targets. You can create a PowerShell script and configure in Task Scheduler to automatically connect iSCSI … Continue reading Connect iSCSI Targets with MutualCHAP Authentication using PowerShell

This is version 2 to below Powershell script to query parent directory containing user home folders or profiles. Especially helpful for housekeeping deprecated RDS & Citrix profiles, maximising disk space on your profile file server. Improvements Added error handling with try/catch. Added input for directory path. Added color for deprecated profiles. Removed unnecessary reporting of … Continue reading Home Folder – Compare folders against current domain users V2

This Powershell script can help identify whether servers in Active Directory are virtual or physical. Create a new Powershell script file named Get-Physical.ps1 with below contents. $serverList = Read-Host -Prompt "Specify OU Distinguished name: (eg. OU=Normal Services - 2008 Servers,OU=Servers,DC=CONTOSO,DC=LOCAL"; #Generates servers.txt file from above input query, searching and generating list of servers within OU. … Continue reading Query Domain OU and Identify Physical/Virtual Servers

Enable verbose user account logging in order to determine where failed authentication attempts are originating from. Log into primary domain controller. Enable verbose netlogon logs using command nltest /dbflag:0x2080ffff This will enable us to pinpoint which device these failure authentications are originating from. Log file: %windir%\debug\netlogon.log Once log has been accumulated sufficiently, disable verbose login … Continue reading Identify failed logon desktop or device

Here is a PowerShell function helpful in populating statistics of sub-folder sizes. Create a PS1 file named Get-FolderSize.ps1 with the following contents: Function Get-FolderSize {  BEGIN{$fso = New-Object -comobject Scripting.FileSystemObject}  PROCESS     {     $path = $input.fullname     $folder = $fso.GetFolder($path)     $size = $folder.size     [PSCustomObject]@{‘Name’ = $path;’Size’ = ($size / 1gb) }     } … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 – Get Folder Size Statistics