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Logoff user session remotely

I found a useful method to use WMI to logoff remotely a user session (on a workstation for example). It has been tested successfully on a Windows 7 computer. This WMI method can be found with the following command: gwmi

Configure OCSP Stappling

What is OCSP OCSP is a protocol to check the revocation status of a certificate. This check is performed on the CA Implementation example found in this Wikipedia article: Alice and Bob have public key certificates issued by Ivan, the

Online SSL configuration checker

I have found a website to check my web server SSL configuration: SSL checker from High-Tech Bridge In the past, I was using the free tool provided by Qualys It seems to me the tool from by High-Tech Bridge gives

WMIC command on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I have written several months ago a post on how to install the wmic command on a linux system. Some additional steps are required now to get the wmic command on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server. Description Windows Management Instrumentation

Replace string in file with sed

Some useful scenarios to use sed to replace string in file found here Replacing all occurrences of one string with another in all files in the current directory: These are for cases where you know that the directory contains only

List DNS conditional forwarders Active Directory forest wide

With this simple script, you will be able to retrieve the DNS conditional forwarder settings in all the domain controllers in the forest. To get the list of the domain controllers in the Active Directory forest, the cmdlet get-adforest is

How to count the mailboxes on each Exchange store

This script counts the number of mailboxes on each Exchange store Script : Get-MailboxDatabase | ` Select-Object Name,@{Name=”Number of users”;Expression={(Get-Mailbox -Database $_.name).Count}} | ` Out-GridView Reference Get-MailboxDatabase This cmdlet is available only in on-premises Exchange Server 2013. Use the Get-MailboxDatabase

Get statistics on Microsoft Exchange databases

This script gets the following Exchange database statistics : Server name Database name The last full backup The number of mailboxes The database size The average mailbox size The database whitespace Script : function Get-DatabaseStatistics { $Databases = Get-MailboxDatabase -Status

Get the cluster quorum type

Microsoft Clusters can be managed using Powershell cmdlets. To get a specific information on the cluster like the quorum type, this cmdlet can help: Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-ClusterQuorum Reference Get-ClusterQuorum Syntax Get-ClusterQuorum [-InputObject ] [-Cluster ] [] InputObject

Get operating system information using WMI

Fill a host file (hosts.txt) with the hostnames you want to retrieve the operating system information Script : $Catalog = GC “C:\hosts.Txt” ForEach($Machine in $Catalog){ $QueryString = Gwmi Win32_OperatingSystem -Comp $Machine $QueryString = $QueryString.Caption Write-Host $Machine “:” $QueryString } Reference