If you administer hardened Windows servers, you know the drill. Every time you go to open a built-in tool you need (Active Directory tools, certificate tools, make firewall modifications, etc.), yo...

The Need Over the last 6 or so years and across multiple organizations, I’ve had the need to create Enterprise Apps in Microsoft EntraID, create some security groups, assign them to the application...

PowerShell Service Manager v0.1.1 is now available! PSSM is another service manager for Microsoft Windows. You can find the project on GitHub. Why PSSM Windows already has services.msc, so why eve...

We’ve all probably been there. You’re working with some platform’s API and it returns you a veritable “bag” of properties in a JSON string or something similar. Sometimes some properties are strin...

You ever stumble onto some interesting information that gives you an idea? While browsing some documentation the other day, I learned about NTFS Alternate Data Streams and how you can interact with...

As someone who frequently performs administration activities in Microsoft Entra ID, I’ve frequently had the occasion where I’ve needed to provide access to an enterprise application and wanted to i...

Introduction Thinking about design is important, and as it turns out, I wasn’t happy with where PSProfileWatcher v0.1.1 was at, despite it serving the minimum function I originally desired. The mor...

A real short share today. If you ever have the occasion where you want to take all of the members of a specific Entra group (or set of Entra groups), and add them as direct members of a different E...

Introduction Have you ever opened your PowerShell profile to find things in in that you forgot about? Ever wonder if someone has slipped a little something into someone else’s PowerShell profile to...

Background My initial foray into PowerShell came from having too much to do, and not enough time to do it all. In my first IT job (where I was the sole non-leadership IT person), I spent a lot of t...