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Connecting to Eaton M2 Network Card via Micro-B USB Cable

Connect the Micro-B USB cable to your machine. Now you’ll need to setup the eth port on your machine by configuring RNDIS If Windows can’t find the driver automatically, go to Windows Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Local Area Connection. To emulate a network connection from USB, you need the RNDIS driver. […]

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Graylog | Finding failed login attempts that lock out AD Users

I’ve been using the free trial of Netwrix to find failed logins and sadly it’s way out of our budget for K-12 so I’ve been searching for another solution and can help the team. We’ve been having an uptick in AD accounts getting locked due to numerous login failed attempts. 99% of the time it’s

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How to Setup and Deploy LAPS | Local Administrator Password Solution

LAPS provides a way to automatically rotate the local Administrator password on domain joined machines every X amount of days to a random password. I’ll be installing it on one of my domain controllers. Download LAPS and Install. Download LAPS and be sure to install all the management tools also. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 Extend the AD Schema

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PowerShell | Find Users matching partial group name by employeeType

I needed a way to find out if any of our staff employeeType was part of incorrect distribution lists. Example: Classified staff shouldn’t be part of any distribution lists that contains “Licensed”. Here is the output: If you wanted to export this to a csv just add on “| Export-Csv C:\” to the end so

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Powershell – Export users and select attributes from a single OU

Recently needed to find a way to export all staff into a csv file with only their name and EmployeeID. First I ran the GET-ADuser command below for a single user. This will display all the user’s attributes. Be sure to change username to a domain user. Now that you have a file with all

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