With security and account passwords being a bit of a hot potato of late, the last thing you want is your admin users using the same password for their standard and HPA accounts. This powershell script audits the password hashes

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Sometimes, updating NTFS Permissions on a folder can be a chore, and just isn’t as simple as it should be, this function can help simplify the process. This function can also be used to create folders as well. As always

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Sometime SCCM distribution points just fail to work, this script will connect to your SCCM environment, and get a dynamic list of your DP’s and check standard ports used to communicate back and forth between it and the site server.

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Whilst I know you can natively export gpo’s from gpedit.msc, it will not show you where it was linked in your AD. This powershell script does exactly that, Exports your gpo’s including where they’re linked, if they’re enabled, the owner,

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All good PowerShell revolves around functions, and in a nutshell they’re reusable snippets of code that you’ll call upon multiple times during the running of any script. You can group functions into powershell modules .psm1, and these can then be

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