AdExplorer: Browsing and Snapshotting Active Directory Offline
The Change Nobody Documented Three service accounts disabled in production. No change ticket. No record of who did it or when. The helpdesk was fielding calls for forty minutes before…
PowerShell For, ForEach, and While Loops Explained
Six Hours of Copy-Paste, Gone in One Loop Last quarter we inherited a client environment with 140 Windows servers. The previous admin had been manually checking disk space on each…
Monitoring Disk Space and Sending Alerts with PowerShell
A Full Drive at 2 AM Is Never Just a Full Drive Last quarter, one of our managed customers had a file server hit 99% disk utilization on a Saturday…
Windows Admin Center: Browser-Based Server Management Done Right
The Ticket That Changed How We Manage Servers Last year, a logistics client with fourteen Windows Server instances across two sites called us in a panic — their lone sysadmin…
Forensic Triage on Windows: Rapid Evidence Collection
The Clock Is Already Running Your SIEM flags a suspicious PowerShell execution on a domain controller at 11:43 PM. The endpoint detection tool confirms process injection consistent with MITRE ATT&CK…
NGINX Load Balancing Methods: Round Robin, Least Connections, IP Hash
The Green Dashboard That Lied A client called us on a Friday afternoon because their e-commerce site had been dropping orders all week. Their NGINX load balancer showed all three…
Encoding Passwords Securely in PowerShell Enterprise Scripts
A Plaintext Password That Cost a Client $200K Last year we inherited a managed environment from another vendor—a mid-size logistics company running 40+ scheduled PowerShell scripts across their domain controllers…
SharePoint 2016 Site Collection Admin Audit: PowerShell Checklist
The Audit That Found 47 Ghost Admins A manufacturing client came to us eighteen months after their SharePoint 2016 farm went live. They had grown from two site collections to…
Using the PowerShell Certificate Provider for Cert Management
It is 3 AM. Your SIEM is generating Kerberos pre-authentication failures across 47 workstations. You escalate to Tier 3 and begin triage. The answer is not malware, not a credential…
Bulk Import Data into SharePoint 2016 Lists with PowerShell
The Problem With Clicking Your Way Through 3,000 Rows A client came to us mid-migration last year with a familiar problem. They had 11 SharePoint lists and roughly 3,000 rows…