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Testing RPC ports with PowerShell (and yes, it’s as much fun as it sounds!) New and Improved!!

January 31, 2021 Jan 31, 2021 01/31/21
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using PowerShell to identify RPC ports in use by capturing content from PowerShell We'd like to introduce you today to one of our newest bloggers!  It's a froopingly awesome friend of ours, Joel Vickery, PFE.  (did I mention Dr. Scripto is a big fan of books written by Douglas Adams?....oops!) Take it away Joel! Thanks Doc!  So ...

Copy multi-valued Active Directory attributes from one user to another with PowerShell

October 23, 2019 Oct 23, 2019 10/23/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using -Replace parameter with Set-ADUser to copy Active Directory multi-valued attributes Q: Hey, Doctor Scripto! We are in the middle of an Active Directory migration and need to copy the multi-valued attribute “ProxyAddresses” from old user accounts to new ones. Can you do with a few lines of code? —ND A: Hello ND...

Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 4

October 16, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 10/16/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using Windows PowerShell to purge Wlan profiles with NetSh.exe. Last week we had a way with a Regular Expression to run one Netsh.exe command and show only the profile names as a PowerShell Array. Today we're going to finish the task and show you how to delete those Profiles. As a quick reminder here's the line in PowerShell ...

Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 3

October 9, 2019 Oct 9, 2019 10/9/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using Regular Expressions to cleanup string data from NetSh.exe. Let's remember the last two discussions. The first time we looked at using PowerShell to identify wireless profiles with some simple regular expressions. We followed up the next week with how to identify which approach would be the fastest. Today we're going to ...