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Finding a Home(stead)

Finding a place to call your own is quite a step in life. To me, it means you’re ready to settle in, put down some roots, and …

Searching for Superfish using PowerShell

Lenovo installed a piece of software that could arguably be called malware or spyware. Superfish, as this article indicates, installs a …

A Hundred Domains and SHA-1 Depreciation

Apparently I’ve been living under a rock for a while, because I didn’t know that SHA-1 was being phased out in the immediate future. …

Hide Disabled AD Accounts from the GAL using Powershell

Our account decommission process involves disabling a user and moving them to a “Disabled Domain Accounts” OU. Well, it turns out that …

How to clear all Workstation DNS caches from PowerShell

I recently found myself in need of the ability to clear the DNS cache of all the laptops in my company. I found a very powerful and …

Expired Ad Users and Powershell

The Setup I came into the office today and was bombarded with users not being able to access our TFS server. Now, before I get too far …

Permaethos Pdc

Jack Spirko, of The Survival Podcast fame, is a visionary in many ways. His most recent endeavor is a little project called PermaEthos, …

Learning to Cook

A friend asked me at lunch today: “How do I learn to cook?” Since this question seems to come up a lot in my life, I figured I would …

Character

When you look at dishonesty as a social disease, things get very interesting. I always believed that “The true test of a man’s …

Monitoring and Caching Dns

Had an interesting issue today. One of the production systems suddenly went dark, and we found out about it from the client. This is …