{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "windows", "home_page_url": "https://evotec.xyz/tags/windows", "feed_url": "https://evotec.xyz/tags/windows/index.feed.json", "description": "Evotec Main Website", "items": [ { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/simplify-notifications-about-ubiquiti-unifi-stock", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/simplify-notifications-about-ubiquiti-unifi-stock", "title": "Track Ubiquiti Unifi Stock, and get notified of changes", "summary": "I am a pretty big fan of Ubiquiti and their Unifi products line. Whether it\u2019s network equipment or their camera systems, Unifi Protect, I have it all, and I\u2019m pretty happy with how it works. However, over the last two years, some of their stocks in the store were very hard to find. For example, I\u2019ve searched for Unifi Protect G4 Doorbell Pro for over six months. I\u2019ve tried local shops all around Europe, even in the Ubiquiti Europe store, to never found any of them.", "date_published": "2023-04-16T15:04:57.0000000Z", "tags": [ "notifications", "powershell", "stock", "tracker", "ubiquiti", "unifi", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/powerbginfo-powershell-alternative-to-sysinternals-bginfo", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/powerbginfo-powershell-alternative-to-sysinternals-bginfo", "title": "PowerBGInfo \u2013 PowerShell alternative to Sysinternals BGInfo", "summary": "When I created ImagePlayground, I thought about how to show its usefulness to the general community. On how to deliver what PowerShell can do. Then I saw on some forum people asking BGInfo to expand and allow running PowerShell scripts so that the data on the BGInfo Wallpaper can be gathered from PowerShell rather than VBS. I thought this was a great idea to create BGInfo using PowerShell without the necessity of using BGInfo at all.", "date_published": "2023-01-01T15:51:00.0000000Z", "tags": [ "bginfo", "desktop manager", "module", "powerbginfo", "powershell", "wallpaper", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/encrypting-and-decrypting-pgp-using-powershell", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/encrypting-and-decrypting-pgp-using-powershell", "title": "Encrypting and decrypting PGP using PowerShell", "summary": "Some time ago, I decided that having an easy-to-use PGP PowerShell module is a way to kill my boredom. Four months have passed, and I decided to share it with the world, as it may be helpful to some of you. Today I would like to introduce you to PSPGP \u2013 PowerShell module that provides PGP functionality in PowerShell.", "date_published": "2021-09-12T15:14:12.0000000Z", "tags": [ "gpg", "pgp", "powershell", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/powershell-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-event-logs", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/powershell-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-event-logs", "title": "PowerShell \u2013 Everything you wanted to know about Event Logs and then some", "summary": "If you feel this title is very familiar to you it\u2019s because I actually have stolen the title from Kevin Marquette. I\u2019m in awe of his posts that take you thru topic from beginning till the end. No splitting, no hiding anything, everything on a plate, in a single post. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve decided to write a post that will take you on a trip on how to work with Event Logs, something that is an internal part of Windows Administration. If you\u2019ve never worked with Events and you\u2019re in IT you most likely should make an effort to find out what it is and how you can eat it.", "date_published": "2019-02-20T13:22:19.0000000Z", "tags": [ "Active Directory", "event logs", "events", "get-eventlog", "get-winevent", "microsoft window", "PowerShell", "windows", "windows server" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/how-to-find-different-server-types-in-active-directory-with-powershell", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/how-to-find-different-server-types-in-active-directory-with-powershell", "title": "How to find different server types in Active Directory with PowerShell", "summary": "Working as a freelancer is a great thing if you can handle it. Each day, each week something new happens and a new problem shows up on my doorstep. It also means it\u2019s almost never boring at your job and you get to play with new stuff. But there\u2019s one drawback to this. You\u2019re often thrown at the problem, told to fix it but often that\u2019s about as much information as you get. It wasn\u2019t very different today. I was told to switch Office 365 from ADFS to Password Synchronization. While reasons for this are not really important, the important question here is what is the name of AD Connect server that\u2019s responsible for this configuration?", "date_published": "2019-02-06T18:25:30.0000000Z", "tags": [ "active directory", "ad", "adconnect", "azure ad", "exchange", "Hyper-V", "powershell", "sql", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/active-directory-how-to-track-down-why-and-where-the-user-account-was-locked-out", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/active-directory-how-to-track-down-why-and-where-the-user-account-was-locked-out", "title": "Active Directory \u2013 How to track down why and where the user account was locked out", "summary": "I\u2019ve been working with Windows Events for a while now. One of the things I did to help me diagnose problems and reporting on Windows Events was to write PSEventViewer to help to parse the logs and write PSWinReporting to help monitor (with use of PSEventViewer) Domain Controllers for events that happen across the domain. It\u2019s handy and I, get those excellent daily reports of what happened while I was gone.", "date_published": "2019-01-24T15:25:31.0000000Z", "tags": [ "active directory", "event viewer", "get-events", "get-winevent", "powershell", "pseventviewer", "pswinreporting", "windows", "windows server" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/how-to-change-your-own-expired-password-when-you-cant-login-to-rdp", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/how-to-change-your-own-expired-password-when-you-cant-login-to-rdp", "title": "How to change your own expired password when you can\u2019t login to RDP", "summary": "I must admit that it was a bit embarrassing to see my Administrator password expired when I tried to log in as Domain Admin to Domain Controller. I got this little message saying This user account\u2019s password has expired. The password must change to logon. Please update the password or contact your system administrator or technical support.", "date_published": "2019-01-23T10:41:40.0000000Z", "tags": [ "expired password", "powershell", "rdc", "rdp", "remote desktop connection", "remote desktop protocol", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/windows-server-2019-desktop-path-for-all-users-cwindowssystem32configsystemprofiledesktop", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/windows-server-2019-desktop-path-for-all-users-cwindowssystem32configsystemprofiledesktop", "title": "Windows Server 2019 \u2013 Desktop path for all users redirected to System32 \\ SystemProfile \\ Desktop", "summary": "I\u2019ve got a strange request a few days ago regarding users getting a prompt about their Desktop location pointing to\u2026", "date_published": "2019-01-22T14:31:49.0000000Z", "tags": [ "ransomware", "windows", "windows 2019", "windows server" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/sixteen-powershell-modules-that-ive-worked-on-in-2018", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/sixteen-powershell-modules-that-ive-worked-on-in-2018", "title": "PowerShell modules I worked on in 2018", "summary": "We\u2019re a few days in 2019, and from a time perspective, I can say I had a busy 2018. I must say I\u2019ve never expected that but in 2018 I\u2019ve created or worked on 24 PowerShell modules. Some were simpler ones, some were a bit more advanced, and some will be retired in 2019 because their features will be moved to other modules. In PowerShellGallery alone those were downloaded over 15000 times (I must admit that some of those are surely automated tests \u2013 \u201CHello Pester\u201D that I\u2019ve learned in 2018. It\u2019s a nice number thou, and something I\u2019m kind of proud of myself. After all, before 2018 I\u2019ve not created a single PowerShell module before. Sure, I\u2019ve created a bunch of scripts, hardcoded, that did the task that I had to solve. But I\u2019ve never before built something, that could be installed by one little command Install-Module (something I\u2019ve learned in 2018 as well) and executed by anyone, anywhere. I know the title says Sixteen PowerShell Modules but some modules are just too simple to give them anything else than a small mention.", "date_published": "2019-01-06T17:39:32.0000000Z", "tags": [ "module", "PowerShell", "powershellgallery", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/windows-2019-how-to-add-language-pack", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/windows-2019-how-to-add-language-pack", "title": "Windows 2019 \u2013 How to add language pack?", "summary": "Today I\u2019ve been setting up a new server on Windows 2019. By default, I install Windows with English version even if Client works in their language such as German, Polish or Swedish. While some people install Windows in a language they desire to work with, years of experience taught me that installing English and then adding Language Pack is the best way to go. All errors, windows events, and general troubleshooting is much easier if those are in the native English language. Each version of Windows made it easier to install the language pack and have that up and running in no time. In Windows 2019 it\u2019s even more comfortable\u2026 or is it?", "date_published": "2019-01-02T13:38:16.0000000Z", "tags": [ "windows", "windows server", "windows server 2019" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/import-module-this-script-contains-malicious-content-and-has-been-blocked-by-your-antivirus-software", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/import-module-this-script-contains-malicious-content-and-has-been-blocked-by-your-antivirus-software", "title": "Import-Module: This script contains malicious content and has been blocked by your antivirus software.", "summary": "I\u2019ve been working today on a little project when suddenly my modules stopped working. It was weird because I have not touched anything that could cause it. A message was a bit cryptic mentioning that my PSWriteColor module is required but not available. I\u2019ve decided to try and load PSWriteColor manually using Import-Module command.", "date_published": "2018-12-12T14:02:21.0000000Z", "tags": [ "powershell", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/azure-ad-connect-completed-export-errors-permission-issue", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/azure-ad-connect-completed-export-errors-permission-issue", "title": "Azure AD Connect \u2013 Completed-Export-Errors \u2013 Permission-Issue", "summary": "During synchronization of Active Directory with Office 365 via Azure AD Connect I was greeted with a list of accounts that have permission-issue. Error message by itself gives you a slight hint, but it doesn\u2019t tell you exactly where to look.", "date_published": "2018-11-29T11:15:53.0000000Z", "tags": [ "azure", "azure ad", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/azure-agent-where-did-my-space-go", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/azure-agent-where-did-my-space-go", "title": "Azure Agent \u2013 Where did my space go?", "summary": "Recently I had a weird case where one of our Azure servers was starting losing space pretty quickly making Pulseway go nuts. As you can assume from the title of this post the cause for this is Azure Agent itself. But before I actually knew that I had to do some digging as it\u2019s not that obvious because Windows Explorer isn\u2019t showing anything worth checking.", "date_published": "2018-11-28T16:19:01.0000000Z", "tags": [ "azure", "Azure Agent", "TreeSize", "windows", "Windows Azure" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/outlook-the-primary-account-cannot-be-removed-unless-it-is-the-only-account-in-the-profile", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/outlook-the-primary-account-cannot-be-removed-unless-it-is-the-only-account-in-the-profile", "title": "Outlook \u2013 The primary account cannot be removed unless it is the only account in the profile", "summary": "Last few months I\u2019m responsible for the migration of Office 365 to Office 365. While doing so, we came into a situation where users have their old mailbox as Primary Account and new Mailbox as their secondary account. This is a quite common scenario that people are running into and something that is expected. Usually, my recommendation is: Please create a new profile for user and topic is closed. It\u2019s also quite easy to achieve this in an automated way where you delete all profiles and Outlook just goes with autodiscovery adding new account as required. That\u2019s how I have always done this till now. My Client has gone thru setting up 1000\u002B users with their second account in Outlook and deleting a whole profile, recreating would cause lots of downloading of emails from Office 365 that my Client wanted to avoid.", "date_published": "2018-11-23T22:39:44.0000000Z", "tags": [ "error", "exchange", "outlook", "PowerShell", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/psblacklistchecker-added-discord-support", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/psblacklistchecker-added-discord-support", "title": "PSBlackListChecker \u2013 Added Discord support", "summary": "It\u2019s been less than 24 hours since I\u2019ve released PSBlackListChecker with support, among other improvements, for Microsoft Teams and Slack and I\u2019m now adding Discord to the mix. Discord was a popular request (well not really, just one person asked, but let\u2019s pretend everyone loves PSBlackListChecker so much that they are too shy to ask for feature requests!).", "date_published": "2018-11-03T20:33:45.0000000Z", "tags": [ "discord", "Exchange", "powershell", "psblacklistchecker", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/powershell-environment-path-is-missing-or-overwritten", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/powershell-environment-path-is-missing-or-overwritten", "title": "PowerShell \u2013 Environment Path is missing or overwritten", "summary": "I had a strange issue today when I was doing some development where suddenly my scripts would report inability to\u2026", "date_published": "2018-11-03T12:07:35.0000000Z", "tags": [ "autoit", "environment", "parameters", "powershell", "psmodulepath", "variables", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/update-module-packagemanagementinstall-package-unable-to-find-repository", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/update-module-packagemanagementinstall-package-unable-to-find-repository", "title": "Update-Module \u2013 PackageManagement\\Install-Package : Unable to find repository", "summary": "I was installing newest version of my PSWinDocumentation module on Windows 2016 when I noticed I can\u2019t really get anything\u2026", "date_published": "2018-10-19T17:04:49.0000000Z", "tags": [ "powershell", "windows", "windows 2012", "windows 2012R2", "windows server" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/pswindocumentation-audit-active-directory-passwords", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/pswindocumentation-audit-active-directory-passwords", "title": "PSWinDocumentation \u2013 Audit Active Directory Passwords", "summary": "If you\u2019re paying attention to what\u2019s happening around the world now you probably know Have I Been Pwned service by now. You probably know that it has huge lists of hashes of passwords that leaked out over the years from different services (LinkedIn, Adobe, and so on). This means those passwords are now in possession of good guys, but also bad guys. With Active Directory being often a central place to store your password that allows you to access your Office 365 account, ADFS, Microsoft Exchange it\u2019s important that your AD passwords is both secure and safe. Bad guys may want to try and access your email accounts or other data that\u2019s available online. And having a list of passwords you or other people may have used before doesn\u2019t help you in protecting your own data.", "date_published": "2018-10-07T17:57:42.0000000Z", "tags": [ "active directory", "ad", "audit", "powershell", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/pswindocumentation-version-0-1-with-word-excel-export", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/pswindocumentation-version-0-1-with-word-excel-export", "title": "PSWinDocumentation \u2013 Version 0.1 with Word / Excel export", "summary": "A few weeks ago I\u2019ve released my first version of PSWinDocumentation. It was simple, one command module where you start it and get some basic AD stuff into Microsoft Word document. Today\u2026 I\u2019m releasing a new version that has a bit bigger feature set. Are you ready for it? Let\u2019s go!", "date_published": "2018-08-23T20:07:04.0000000Z", "tags": [ "active directory", "ad", "excel", "powershell", "scripts", "windows", "word" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/windows-10-youll-need-the-internet-for-this-0xcaa7004-or-0xcaa30194", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/windows-10-youll-need-the-internet-for-this-0xcaa7004-or-0xcaa30194", "title": "Windows 10 \u2013 You\u2019ll need the internet for this 0xCAA7004 or 0xCAA30194 or 0x80072EFD", "summary": "For the last few weeks, months that I was working on Windows 10 Insiders release I was having problems to\u2026", "date_published": "2018-08-08T08:16:46.0000000Z", "tags": [ "0x80072EFD", "0xCAA30194", "0xCAA70004", "insiders", "insiders channel", "windows", "windows 10", "windows 10 insiders" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/working-with-windows-events-with-powershell", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/working-with-windows-events-with-powershell", "title": "Working with Windows Events with PowerShell", "summary": "As you may (and should) know Event Log is your first place to look for explanations on why server/client is\u2026", "date_published": "2018-05-28T09:28:21.0000000Z", "tags": [ "Active Directory", "event viewer", "Exchange", "get-events", "get-winevent", "microsoft", "powershell", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/sync-folder-windows-to-onedrive", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/sync-folder-windows-to-onedrive", "title": "Sync any folder in Windows to OneDrive", "summary": "OneDrive is great piece of software but at the time of writing it misses some of the features that competitors\u2026", "date_published": "2018-02-16T12:31:50.0000000Z", "tags": [ "cloud", "google drive", "hard links", "microsoft windows", "mklink", "office 365", "onedrive", "onedrive for business", "soft links", "symbolic links", "windows", "windows 10", "windows 7", "windows 8", "windows 8.1" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/microsoft-discontinues-active-directory-replication-status-tool", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/microsoft-discontinues-active-directory-replication-status-tool", "title": "Microsoft discontinues Active Directory Replication Status Tool", "summary": "Active Directory Replication Status Tool is very nifty application providing information about potential problems in replication between domain controllers. As\u2026", "date_published": "2016-03-21T15:34:26.0000000Z", "tags": [ "active directory. replication", "microsoft", "replication tool", "windows" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/windows-server-snmp-service-tabs-missing", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/windows-server-snmp-service-tabs-missing", "title": "Windows Server \u2013 SNMP Service Tabs missing", "summary": "Setting up SNMP Monitoring on Windows Servers is usually done by opening Services MMC console and filling up Agent, Traps, Security\u2026", "date_published": "2016-03-06T13:37:01.0000000Z", "tags": [ "PowerShell", "snmp", "snmp service", "snmp trap", "windows", "windows server", "windows server 2012 r2" ] }, { "id": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/powershell-change-dns-ip-addresses-remotely", "url": "https://evotec.xyz/blog/powershell-change-dns-ip-addresses-remotely", "title": "Powershell \u2013 Change DNS IP Addresses remotely", "summary": "Sometimes you need to update multiple computers with proper DNS settings. Instead of doing this one by one manually you\u2026", "date_published": "2016-02-09T14:57:22.0000000Z", "tags": [ "dns", "powershell", "windows", "windows servers" ] } ] }