Bitlocker helps to protect your data but sometimes can also prevent you from accessing your data. In these cases, you will need to enter the Bitlocker Recovery Key to unlock the data on your hard disk. But where do you find the recovery key? Good … Read moreHow to Find your Bitlocker Recovery Key
When outputting data from PowerShell you often need to concatenate two or more strings or variables. Joining strings in PowerShell is primarily done using the + operator. But there are other ways to concatenate strings as well. The problem with joining strings or variables in … Read moreHow to Concatenate a String in PowerShell
With Get-Date we can get the current date and time which is often used in PowerShell scripts to timestamp the output or in combination with logging. But besides timestamping, we can also use dates to compare or calculate the age of files, or in filters … Read moreGet-Date – How to get and use Dates in PowerShell
As a sysadmin, I try to automate as much as possible of my daily tasks. One of the biggest time savers for me was when I started using PDQ Deploy back in 2016. Before that we were installing the software manually, using images (which were … Read moreGetting Started with PDQ Deploy & Inventory
#sponsored A ransomware attack is pretty much the nightmare of every system administrator. Every day new companies become victims of successful ransomware attacks, causing downtime, data, and reputation loss. To protect our environments, we make off-site backups, beef up the security on our endpoints, and … Read moreThe Importance of Cyber Security Awareness
Robocopy is a great command-line utility that is used to copy, mirror, or move large amounts of data quickly and efficiently from one location to another. The power of Robocopy is that it comes with tons of options/switches that you can use to fine-tune and … Read moreRoboCopy – Ultimate Guide with Examples
Multi-factor authentication is pretty much the standard these days, but for our Windows devices, most of us still use only a username and password. The problem with strong passwords is that they are sometimes hard to remember and users often reuse them on multiple sites. … Read moreHow to implement Windows Hello for Business with Cloud Trust
Troubleshooting Group Policy can be a daunting task. Changes that you make in the Group Policy Management Editor are not always reflected immediately on the client. You are now probably using GPResult to verify the policies. But an easier way is to use the RSoP … Read moreHow to use RSoP to check Group Policies
Trying to run a PowerShell script, and do you get the error “Cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system”? Then we need to change the execution policy in PowerShell. To protect your computer from malicious scripts, the execution policy of PowerShell … Read moreHow to fix “Running Scripts is Disabled on this System”
Automating daily tasks, extracting information from systems, or managing Microsoft 365? PowerShell scripts really make your daily work a lot easier. When you are working in IT then you can’t get around PowerShell. PowerShell is an advanced command line interface (CLI) and scripting language that … Read morePowerShell Scripting – Get started with this Ultimate Guide
