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Why am I only seeing logoff, but no login, events in Windows Event Logs?
I want to audit when every user logged into of logged off a server via RDP. When I run Get-EventLog or Get-WinEvent and filter for Login (Event ID 4624) and Logoff (Event ID 4634) events, I only am ...
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Can already opened event log screens of powershell on windows event viewer can be hacked offline by hackers? [closed]
Can Windows powershell give me fake or altered outputs if I use common commands primarily used in powershell checking hash codes is option but they can be altered too theorically so its not that ...
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powershell detect login is sftp
tl;dr in powershell, how can I detect a login is specifically SFTP and not SSH or local?
On Windows 10 I have the built-in OpenSSH service running. For SFTP protocol connections, the server uses the ...
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PowerShell - Failure to load built-in modules due to software restrictions
Yesterday, I was working with PowerShellEditorServices to develop a tool. Internally, it uses named pipes to communicate between the client and server. They are both running locally.
At some point, ...
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Task scheduler - run whether user is logged on or not
I am trying to run task scheduler on my local pc (windows 10), I have set it up to run a exe file stored on my C drive daily, but it doesn't run when I set it to "run whether user is logged on or ...
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Script to cleanup Windows.old remotely
Problem:
A lot of older workstations on our networks are running out of hard disk space and I am looking for ways to stream-line the process of cleaning up some space. I understand I can use Disk ...
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How to create and manage a new DCOM object via batch or powershell
Win+R. dcomcnfg > I need to register a new dll using this tool as a COM. I can do this manually. But I have a lot of WS.
regsvr32 is not enough. The COM App need to exist in dcomcnfg
So, can it be ...
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Turn off Focus assist via GPO not working as expected
Is there a standardized way to turn off focus assist centrally since i am trying to display balloon tips and toast notifications for applications and windows updates being deployed from sccm software ...
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Powershell: How to read secure strings from textfile with windows service
I saved credentials of my vSphere environment to text files with the Powershell ConvertFrom-SecureString. I want to use this credentials in my powershell script using the following command:
$...
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Test-SRTopology Fails to Create CIM Session to Local Host
We are trying to setup Storage Replication between two brand new Server 2019 VMs. I have followed all the steps in Microsoft's guide (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-...
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PowerShell commands to manage NPS Radius policies?
Are there PowerShell commands for managing NPS RADIUS policies?
I see commands for RADIUS clients (Get-NpsRadiusClient; etc), but nothing for the policies, I can't find a command to create the NPS ...
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Spot instance windows auto login in User Data using Boto3
I want to launch a Windows spot instance on AWS with a specific AMI and launch the instance and run PowerShell command. The problem i am facing issue is that, when the instance is launched, it shows &...
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Windows OpenSSH Match Exec string with embedded quotes
Under Openssh for Windows, is there a way to specify an exec string for powershell with embedded quotes? It's made complex by the fact that a multiword command must be quoted, and I can't figure out ...
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Event 1202 when trying to run a scheduled task GPO under NT Authority\System
I'm trying to get a barcode font installed on machines for a enterprise application. The GPO is being served from a Windows Server 2019 Standard version 1809 OS build 17763.4252 server. The GPO in ...
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Cannot install any appxpackage on Windows Server 2022 Core because windows.capability extension is not registered
Installing anything via Add-AppxPackage cmdlet results in error:
Add-AppxPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CF6, Package could not be
registered.
error 0x80040154: Cannot register the ...
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How to create two different firewall rules with the same name that applies to different profiles using PowerShell?
I have a server that has the following firewall rules.
I'd like to mimic this on a another server running the same OS. Currently, I have this rule.
How do I split it into two rules: one that is ...
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Windows Feature Update Silent Install
We are trying to push out the latest Windows Feature update via our RMM but when running it doesn't appear to do anything. We've tried running the following:
PowerShell
Start-Process -FilePath "...
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Scheduled task with powershell won't restart when the script fails
Scenario
I want to invoke a rest api on daily basis with some retry mechanism in case the rest api is not available
Problem
Even when the action exits with a non zero exit code, it is not restarted.
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vmware tag and description
i have created some tags with description in vcenter like
TAGS DESCRIPTION
AppOwner Brad pit
APpOwnerEmail [email protected]
Environment NIIT-UAT
and attached to a ...
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Execute command on windows client from windows server
how can we execute command on CMD or power shell windows clients from a windows server or admin domain on network
we are using windows server 2016 for active directory
and all users have windows 10
we ...
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PS Stop-Process fails to stop a subprocess launched from cmd.exe
Preface: I've boiled down a problem I'm having to this simple reproduction, which admittedly looks pretty strange out of context.
From powershell (PS), if I use Start-Process to start notepad and ...
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PowerShell script to write a printer name
I have a PowerShell script. This:
Get-Printer | ft name,portname,location | Export-Csv c:\intel\intvprint2.csv -NoTypeInformation
But it isn't any good :( I made the script, but the result is file ...
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Unusual Error on Exchange Server 2019 Enterprise
I've got my own personal Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Enterprise at home and I recently upgraded all the VMware Guests to Server 2022, Rebuild all my domain controllers from scratch from 2012 R2 ...
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how to install OpenSSH Server windows 11 OFFINE, without internet connection with powershell
I need to isntall SSH server on windows 11 using powershell. It should be a script that isntalls SSH server and logs you in and does everything untill this: ssh domain\username@servername
These are ...
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Remotely open PowerShell via Intune/365?
The organisation I work for have a range of different devices, mainly laptops, Surface Go and Surface Pro. We have a number of devices that we need to physically locate at our sites for servicing and ...
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Unable to install printer driver using pnputil
I am trying to install multiple printers on a print server, however before that as a pre-requisite I have to add the printer drivers for which I am performing below steps but I am unable to view the ...
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windows PC configuration: force logout/ kill existing sessions on restart
As part of our PC Build ,configuration and deployment process, we use Window Deployment toolkit and WCD (windows configuration designer) to setup 4 users with different access. Some users are in kiosk ...
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OneDrive, can you migrate shared locations from one computer to another?
We are migrating users to new computer, and they have around 10 different SharePoint sites. Is there a way to copy the settings to a new computer, without manually doing so.
I've looked at Computer\...
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Accessing more properties of Local Security Policy with powershell
I want to modify any property that is in secpol.msc > Security settings > Account Policies. Microsoft unfortunately only gives support for a few of them, so there are still properties that I can'...
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Windows test network folder permissions for another account
How to test that an account other than login account has access to a network folder ?
Here's an example :
I'm logged in as steves but I need to test if joej has access to :
\\contoso\dept\finance\...
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WinRM connectivity issues with workgroup and vlan subnet
Situation:
1 server (Windows Server 2022) (192.168.15.5)
1 client (Windows 11) (192.168.5.5)
Unifi network setup where both machines are on a different VLAN (subnet)
On the server:
Run Winrm ...
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Only 2 cipher suites are offered by Powershell Invoke-WebRequest
I am performing a Invoke-WebRequest to a site using Powershell. And i'm facing error "Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel"
PS C:\Users\admin> Invoke-WebRequest -URI https://...
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Automate shutdown of windows server when all apps are closed
I have three high processing machines running on AWS. Our engineers run specific applications on it that requires like 192 GB of RAM.
Main idea behind this is after they start processing the job, no ...
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How to run Powershell from batch file with normal background colors?
When I click the Powershell icon, it comes up with a blue background and a certain look. If I run Powershell from a batch file, it comes up with a black background that looks like cmd.exe. Is there a ...
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How to get a complete list of all installed software via Powershell?
I'm trying to figure how to view the version numbers of all installed software in Powershell on Windows 10. I dug up an example but when I compare the generated list to what's in Control Panel > ...
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How to run cmd.exe using the system account on Windows 11?
I want to run cmd.exe not as administrator, but as the local system account on Windows 11.
Apparently it was possible on Windows 10 using psexec. On Windows 11 with psexec v2.40 I get this error from ...
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winget not working unless I do
When I open Powershell, and type winget - this is the response:
winget : The term 'winget' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of ...
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"Advanced network settings > Data usage" statistics using PowerShell
How can one get the Advanced network settings > Data usage statistics in Windows 11 using PowerShell?
I couldn't figure out how to get the total data consumption per process using Get-...
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Why is the GroupPolicy module not found even when RSAT is installed?
I'm trying to use the Get-GPO PowerShell module. So I installed RSAT first, but the GroupPolicy module is still missing:
PS C:\Users\admin\Desktop> Install-WindowsFeature RSAT
Success Restart ...
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Powershell showing only 0 values for available cipher suite
I have multiple VMs within the azure cloud. All of them, except one, are unable to connect to certain services using SSL with the message
Invoke-Webrequest : The request was aborted: Could not create ...
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Is there a way to programatically determine whether a Windows computer is AAD joined as SYSTEM?
I would like to be able to determine via script whether a given Windows workstation is AAD joined, Hybrid AD joined, or on-prem AD joined.
I would like to run this script from the RMM I'm using so I ...
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Run a PowerShell script once on all computers as admin via GPO without changing execution policy
I have a PowerShell script that I need to run once on all computers in my Active Directory domain. A large number of computers are off at any given time, so a GPO would allow us to ensure that it ...
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Globing patterns
How can I make a command string work using globing patterns also in the given arguments?
powershell.exe -c "&'c:\wind?ws\System32\more.com' C:\path\to\something.txt | findstr 'something'"...
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PowerShell - List WSUS Updates Needed for Each Client
I need to provide a monthly report to our client listing the updates needed by each Windows server in our environment. Ideally, the report would list the updates for the month and the servers in my ...
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How to delete a Scheduled task folder with PowerShell?
I need to delete a scheduled task folders on a lot of machines, ideally with PowerShell. I couldn't find anything on how to do that - it seems like the documentation covers everyting but folders.
Did ...
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Windows file content not updated in Explorer/Powershell
On a Windows Server a logging tool writes .log files to disk continuesly and rotates log files daily at midnight. Every day the new log file gets created, but almost every day its content / meta data ...
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Add-WindowsCapability fails with "Source files could not be found"
I am trying to install RSAT on some Windows 10 systems that have no internet connectivity. Two of the Windows 10 systems are 20H2, and one of them is 21H2. All three have the same problem. To install ...
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Why does Test-NetConnection indicate connection can be made, but I cannot visit the site?
I need to determine whether a particular site is accessible on a particular port, given that firewall restrictions exist on the network.
If I cannot access the site on a particular port, then that ...
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Windows Equivalent to `sha256sum -c` (cryptographic hash, digest file, recursive integrity check, SHA256SUMS)
What is the equivalent to sha256sum -c in Windows?
I have a set of very important files that I need to copy-to and mirror across many different types of disks in many geographically distinct locations....
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Is this scenario a possible issue/bug with WINRM and IIS w/site bound exclusively to loopback address
I believe I have discovered a very strange, narrow issue relating to an interoperability problem with IIS and WINRM exercised by Powershell on Windows 10.
I have a device that has an IIS site bound ...
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