This article is something I’ve been meaning to write for sometime. As often as I tell people PowerShell is easy to use once you understand its core concepts, that isn’t always the case.  This is a problem my friend Gladys Kravitz brought to my attention some time ago. Like her, you probably have written a...

As an MSP we manage a lot of clients, and I’m pretty sure we’ve all been in situations where a client had some leavers in the company and not notify us as the administrators, or that the client had some very inactive users that don’t really need to be licensed or could be converted to […] The post Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring O365 unused products appeared first on CyberDrain.

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If your organization is looking to get a cloud email service, Microsoft offers several subscriptions that include Exchange Online. Among these subscriptions is the Exchange Online Plan, 1 which is priced at $4.00 user/month and Exchange Online Plan 2, which is priced as double at $8.00 user/month. The post Exchange Online Plan 1 and Exchange Online Plan 2: What’s the Difference? appeared first on Adam the Automator.

This one was request by a pal of mine that I know via a MSP discord; He wanted a way to document the users in O365 groups and see what type of group it was in one go. To do this, we’re leveraging the Graph API. As in most of my blogs I have a […] The post Documenting with PowerShell: O365 Groups (And Warranty updates) appeared first on CyberDrain.

Chapter 10 covers implementing site and facility security controls, designing sites and facilities, and generally protecting things from physical threats. Last summer I spent about a month studying for and getting my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from ISC2. I went about studying for the test a few ways: I used the PocketPrep app I attended a study bootcamp I did a bunch of practice tests And finally… I got the ISC2 CISSP official study guide - I read it cover to cover, and highlighted and annotated the entire thing.

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Introduction Very often it is required to obtain a password from the user from a console in a PowerShell script or C#\.NET console application, in this blog post we are... The post PowerShell to C# & back: Reading Password Securely from Console appeared first on Ridicurious.

Chapter 9 gets into assessing and mitigating the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements. It also talks about assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities in web-based systems, mobile systems, and embedded devices. Last summer I spent about a month studying for and getting my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from ISC2. I went about studying for the test a few ways: I used the PocketPrep app I attended a study bootcamp I did a bunch of practice tests And finally… I got the ISC2 CISSP official study guide - I read it cover to cover, and highlighted and annotated the entire thing.

This was a request by a friend in one of the peer groups I operate in. He wanted a method to document which mobile devices exist in a O365 tenant and put them into IT-Glue as configurations. I figured I’d help him real quick and blog about it. The IT-Glue version creates configurations of each […] The post Documenting with PowerShell: Documenting mobile devices appeared first on CyberDrain.

Introduction If you want to stay on top of #PowerShell community and whatever is happening around the world related to PowerShell then you are at the right place friend! In... The post Weekly Newsletter – PowerShell Digest #009 appeared first on Ridicurious.

Chapter 8 covers implementing and managing engineering processes using secure design principles, the fundamental concepts of security models, how to select controls based on security requirements, and understanding security capabilities of information systems. Last summer I spent about a month studying for and getting my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from ISC2.

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A lot of people see PowerShell as conversion tool, but it can do so much more. It can uninstall apps, inventory your applications. Rename files to a standard. Create shares, modify files and sessions and give an Administrator access to a computer without interrupting a session. It is built on .net/c# so it can do… Continue reading Using Object properties

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This is an Azure quickstart sample PowerShell script based on ARM template 101-vm-secure-password from the GitHub repository azure\azure-quickstart-templates, and this script will deploy following the resources…

Chapter 7 is all about applying cryptography. It covers the cryptographic lifecycle, methods, Public Key Infrastructure, and key management practices. It also covers Digital signatures, nonrepudiation, integrity, cryptanalytic attacks, and Digital Rights Management. Last summer I spent about a month studying for and getting my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from ISC2.

So a while back I helped people documenting their physical servers, the biggest complaint about that blog was that “at a glance” you couldn’t really see what the server did, if it was a cluster member or not, and how the physical layout of the server was. For this, I decided to rewrite that blog […] The post Documenting with PowerShell: Hyper-v and physical server settings appeared first on CyberDrain.

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This is an Azure quickstart sample PowerShell script based on ARM template 101-vm-multiple-data-disk from the GitHub repository azure\azure-quickstart-templates, and this script will deploy following the resources…

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Chapter 6 covers data security controls, understanding data states, and then it gets into cryptography. This chapter goes into assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities of systems related to cryptography, cryptographic lifecycle and methods, nonrepudiation, and data integrity. Last summer I spent about a month studying for and getting my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from ISC2.

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My holidays are over, and it’s back to blogging! I hope you all enjoyed the previous webinar I did in my holidays. For me it was a lot of fun and I’m doing a more advanced one soon, when I find some time. for now I’m going to be quite busy with other speaking engagements […] The post Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring network traffic appeared first on CyberDrain.

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If you want to import Excel data I recommend giving the people who toke the time to develop this module Import-Excel. It can be Read about on the PSGallery here: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ImportExcel/ After reading we will try to find the module using built im module package for powershell : “find-module importexcel” we can pipe this into… Continue reading PowerS

One of my favorite reasons I love PowerShell is because can tap into its programming roots for added power. I will demonstrate later in my post. Here is why: An OLE Automation date is implemented as a floating-point number whose integral component is the number of days before or after midnight, 30 December 1899, and… Continue reading Convert from OATime

Introduction If you want to stay on top of #PowerShell community and whatever is happening around the world related to PowerShell then you are at the right place friend! In... The post Weekly Newsletter – PowerShell Digest #008 appeared first on Ridicurious.

Chapter 5 is concerned with asset security. It discusses identifying and classifying information and assets, as well as determining how to maintain assets and identify asset owners. Chapter 5 also talks about protecting privacy, ensuring proper asset retention, determining data security controls, and establishing information and asset handling requirements. Last summer I spent about a month studying for and getting my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from ISC2.

For today’s fun with PowerShell, I thought I’d share my solutions for a recent Iron Scripter challenge. If you aren’t familiar with these cghallenges, and you should be, they are designed to test your PowerShell skills and hopefully help you learn something new. There are challenges for all skill levels and you can tackle them...

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Lots of people joined the webinar, It was super cool and hopefully I taught you all something. The recording can be found here. I’m still sorting through the Q&A but gonna get a bite to eat first, feel free to add questions as the Q&A is still open, we have a total of 124 questions right […] The post Powershell for beginners webinar Part 2 appeared first on CyberDrain.

Chapter 4 covers a variety of topics related to determining compliance requirements, contractual and legal standards, and privacy requirements. It also includes information to help you understand legal and regulatory issues that relate to information security in a global context like data breaches, licensing requirements, and privacy. Last summer I spent about a month studying for and getting my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from ISC2.

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Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blogging begins. worldwide, on the second Tuesday of the month (all day, based on GMT time), bloggers attend this party by blogging about the theme. This month it is hosted […]

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Sobald man mit Cloud Diensten (speziell mit AzureAD) hantiert, kommt es immer wieder vor, dass man Abfragen ob ein Benutzer bereits vorhanden ist oder nicht. Ich musste mich diesem Szenario ebenfalls schon stellen. Nach dieser Erfahrung dachte ich mir, dass dies sicherlich noch mehr Leute brauchen könnten. Also habe ich meine Lösung hier online gestellt, […] Der Beitrag PowerShell Funktion zur Prüfung Azure AD Benutzer oder Gäste erschien zuerst auf it-koehler-blog.

Introduction Tiny PowerShell Projects is a step-wise set of challenges enabling you to go from newcomer to PoSher. In the link below, you’ll learn to write PowerShell that includes tests so you know when your solutions solves the puzzle. So, you’ll be learning PowerShell and how to test your scripts, for correctness. It also includes how to parameterize our scripts/programs so that they are flexible.

Note: This article is part of #ServerlessSeptember. You'll find other helpful articles, detailed tutorials, and videos in this all-things-Serverless content collection. New articles from community members and cloud advocates are published every week from Monday to Thursday through September. Find out more about how Microsoft Azure enables your Serverless functions at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-functions/.

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Introduction If you want to stay on top of #PowerShell community and whatever is happening around the world related to PowerShell then you are at the right place friend! In... The post Weekly Newsletter – PowerShell Digest #007 appeared first on Ridicurious.

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Ever imported data just to have a non readable date stamp? Get-date can take your text that is a date and turn it into something more readable. Take “15-FEB-20” for example. It’s not really a wildly used format. Pipe that to get-date like so: Then you can format your date to remove time and what… Continue reading Formatting dates from text or objects

This is a conversion of ARM template 101-vm-simple-windows-visualstudio2019 from the GitHub repository azure\azure-quickstart-templates to PowerShell Script, and this script will deploy following the resources…