Like a lot of folks in IT there have been a lot of times where I have to uninstall something from a machine and don’t want to involve the user.  Sometimes the reason that the software has to come off is that the user shouldn’t have put it there in the first place too.  PSExec has always been an option […]

I wrote a post in the past, which you can see here, about creating a GUI for a Powershell script.  That info is still valid but the catch with that one is that you need Visual Studio, Community Edition is just fine for it.  Recently I changed out my laptop and found it to be a good opportunity to start […]

I had an issue recently where the time on the workstations was off by a few minutes.  The workstations all receive their time from the Domain Controller….but, which one?  Remember that if you are running your DC as a VM then its getting its time from the host.  That being said, this environment is Hyper-V so I am checking the […]

Lets say you are in a position where you need to uninstall something from a remote machine for whatever reason…maybe it’s software that’s no longer needed, maybe the user shouldn’t have installed it, or maybe you just want to mess with someone.  Me personally, I would rather do this remotely than go to the person’s machine and interrupt whatever they […]

A while back I had a need to check all the servers in my domain and see what services were logged in with “special” accounts.  In other words, find any service that’s not running off of a default builtin account.  A script like this comes in very handy when it comes time to update the password on an AD account that […]