RSAT

I kept ending up switching primary work computers, changing domains with different policies, WU servers, etc and it seems that installing RSAT ended up using different method to install on occasion. Here’s what I ended up using that just plain works (so long as you have admin rights).

Domain password expiration list

A quick powershell way to list expiring user passwords from a specific ou. Change for your ou structure of course:

Get-ADUser -SearchBase "OU=Users,OU=OREU1-Eugene,OU=Properties,DC=mydomain,DC=net" -filter {Enabled -eq $True -and PasswordNeverExpires -eq $False} –Properties "DisplayName", "msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed" | Select-Object -Property "Displayname",@{Name="ExpiryDate";Expression={[datetime]::FromFileTime($_."msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed")}} | Export-Csv UserPassExpires.csv


Triangle Lake Rock Slides

Officially, it’s Lake Creek falls and the ‘slides’ are just downstream, but we locally know it as Triangle Lake rock slides due to it’s proximity to Triangle Lake and the creek itself is runoff from the lake.

Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Server 2016

Good guide on setting up terminal services in Windows Server 2016 if you don’t want to use the ‘quick’ setup.

ref: https://robertsmit.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/step-by-step-server-2016-remote-desktop-services-quickstart-deployment-rds-vdi-rdp-remoteapp/

 

HP ILO Firmware Updating

Had an old 380G7 with firmware 1.20 that needed updating but due to some ssl/tsl being disabled on my workstation I could no longer connect via the windows ILO client OR via web-browser.

The Search for a Chromebook

My daughter decided she wanted a chromebook to do some writing and other schoolwork on. Here’s some quick notes and a few links..

Win10 1703 (Creators Update) released early

Released on the 4th, it is available through the Win10 update app but most folks will want to grab the ISO.  You can do that via the media creation tool (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691209). The ISO’s are also available via MSDN

What’s in it for the Enterprise? 

OpenVAS 9 woes

So after all is said and done, it’s already been noted in the mailing list that openvas9 uses rsync for at least 2 update commands getting scapdata and certdata and so port 873 needs to be open through your proxy. Good luck getting a large corporate IT to punch a hole in their proxy to let that through.  From what I’ve been seeing, there’s no easy way to manually retrieve the updates either.  C’est La Vie.

Obtaining ILO ip and mac on esxi host

In Vcenter, for configuring Esxi Host Power management (configure tab, power management) I needed an easy way to get both ip and mac address. A quick search got me a powershell script for use under powercli. I didn’t have powercli installed on my newer workstation so.. here’s the process.

Veeam Endpoint Backup 1.5x and Windows Server 2016

The Veeem folks explicitly blocked the install on Server2016 because testing with the Tech Preview builds of Windows yielded some “actual issues” with the recovery process.
If you wish to still go forward and use it now, here’s how to get it installed.