Service Accounts, A Necessary Evil

Service Accounts are a necessary evil in systems administration. They tend to be shared across members of a team, have access to sensitive data and critical infrastructure. Yet, most companies have minimal safeguards in place for these accounts, and even less policy...

Disable Autorun GPO

In my past life as a consultant, I ran across an unusual exploit that was created when someone added an autorun.inf to the root of the company shared drive. This exploit infected the systems with malware that was easily removed, but it could have been worse. As a...

PowerShell Logging Module

The SysAdmin PowerShell Module consists of a diverse set of functions, but there is one set of functions that is leveraged in every other function…Logging! The logging functions provide visual feedback to the user about the progress of a script. It can also...

Systems Admin PowerShell Module

Over the past year, I have passed from PowerShell n00b to being able to script/code anything that has been thrown at me. One of the main reasons I have been able to progress this far with my PowerShell abilities are all the great blogs and resources on the internet. I...