Remove all members from AD group

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Henrik

$ADgroup = "testgroup"
Get-ADGroupMember $ADgroup | ForEach-Object {Remove-ADGroupMember $ADgroup $_ -Confirm:$false}

Great tool for converting GPT/MBR

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Henrik

http://www.disk-partition.com/partition-assistant-lite.html

Powershell: Start all services with startuptype: Automatic on remote server

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Henrik

param ($servername)
$ignorelist = "MapsBroker","RemoteRegistry","sppsvc","WbioSrvc","BITS","ShellHWDetection","TrustedInstaller"

if ($servername.length -lt 2) { $Servername = Read-Host -Prompt 'Input the servername' }

# Check for name is IP
$checkIP = [bool]($servername -as [ipaddress])


# Check DNS resolve
if (!($checkIP)) { 
    $DNScheck = Resolve-DnsName $servername -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

    if ($DNScheck.length -lt 1) {
        Write-host "Unable to resolve DNS name" -ForegroundColor Red
        Exit 1}
    }

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $servername -ArgumentList $ignorelist -ScriptBlock { $NotRunningServices = Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.Starttype -like "Automatic*" -and $_.status -notlike "Running" }


foreach ($NotRunningService in $NotRunningServices) {

    if (!($args.Contains($NotRunningService.name))) {
    Start-service $NotRunningService.name -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    sleep -Milliseconds 500
    if ((Get-service -Name $NotRunningService.name).status.value__ -ne 4 ) { Write-host "Failed to start" $NotRunningService.name -ForegroundColor Red }
    else { Write-host "Succeded starting" $NotRunningService.name -ForegroundColor Green }

    }

}  }

Powershell wait for AD object to be created

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Henrik

while (!(Get-ADgroup -Filter { Name -like "the_AD_object"}))
{
write-host wait
    start-sleep -m 1000
}

Remote powershell

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Henrik

#Allow remote powershell
Enable-PSRemoting -Force 
Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server -Force
Get-Service winrm | Start-Service 
Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Client -DelegateComputer * -Force 
Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Credssp\PolicyDefaults\AllowFreshCredentials -Name WSMan -Value WSMAN/* 
Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Credssp\PolicyDefaults\AllowFreshCredentialsDomain -Name WSMan -Value WSMAN/*  

#Test from an other machine: 
Invoke-Command -ComputerName Remote-Server -ScriptBlock {Get-host}


#Allow crossdomain:
#On remote server do the above and:
New-Itemproperty -name LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy -path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -propertyType DWord -value 1

#On remote and local machine run:
Set-item wsman:localhost\client\trustedhosts -value 'server1,server2,server3'

#Test from an other machine: 
$credential = Get-Credential
Invoke-Command -ComputerName RM-SERVER -ScriptBlock {Get-Process} -Credential $credential

Send SMS via modem and Powershell

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Henrik

$comport = "COM10"
$msg = get-date
$ext = "+45"
$number = $ext + "12345678"


$serialPort= new-Object System.IO.Ports.SerialPort $comport,9600,None,8,one
$serialPort.open()
$serialPort.Write("E1")
$serialPort.Write("AT+CMGF=1`r`n") ; $serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Write("AT+CMGS=`"$number""`r`n"); $serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Write("$msg`r`n") ; $serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Write($([char] 26))
$serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Readline()
$serialPort.Close()

Who shutdown Windows server?

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Henrik

Event Viewer
Filter System log for event id: 1074

Default login Citrix Netscaler

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Henrik

Username: nsroot
Password: nsroot

Powershell progress bar

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Henrik

For($i = 1; $i -le 100; $i++)
{ 
Write-Progress -Activity "Progress bar" -status "Done $i" -percentComplete ($i)
write-host $i
Start-Sleep -s 2
}

Find HP machine age from powershell script