While working on a task scheduling a powershell script, it was noticed that the powershell command does not execute from the command prompt on a server. When run I would encounter the following error: ‘powersehll’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. After searching around Google / Bing I […]
Month: May 2017
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‘WannaCry’ Malware Attack
By now many of you have read reports on various news channels, blog posts, etc… This flaw was patched in Microsoft’s March 2017 update cycle (MS17-10). The ‘WannaCry’ (‘WannaCrypt’, ‘WCRY’) was reported worldwide on May 12th 2017 as a ransomeware worm targeting out-of-date systems. WannaCry is leveraging vulnerabilities that were previously fixed on systems that have been […]
You can’t patch these, but you can take steps to be more aware of these law’s. Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it’s not solely your computer anymore. Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it’s not […]
I had encountered the following issue when attempting to migrate a live VM to another host w/in my lab cluster. The error received was: Currently connected network interface” ‘Network adapter 1’ cannot use network ‘VM Network’, because “the destination network on the destination host is configured for different offload or security policies than the source network […]
This post describes how to perform the basic task of creating a host profile. Description of Hos Profiles: VMware Host Profiles are available through VMware vCenter Server and enable you to establish standard configurations for VMware ESXi hosts and to automate compliance to these configurations, simplifying operational management of large-scale environments and reducing errors caused by […]
Use: Listing account lockouts in Active Directory Unlocking locked out accounts # Open PowerShell or PowerShell ISE with an account with rights to unlock accounts # Import the Actice Directory Module to PowerShell # Import-Module ActiveDirectory # # Run the Search-ADAccount command to search for accounts that are locked out # Accounts locked out […]