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Aug 20, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Nate Lewis
We’re living in the age of information. In both the world of the enterprise and in our own personal lives, we expect speed first and foremost. The exchange of data between customers, employees, and partners is become a critical component of business operations. Shadow IT...
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Aug 16, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
In this article, we will discuss how to get around the infamous double-hop problem in PowerShell. It's easier than you think.
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Aug 13, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Jacqueline Lee
Remember the corporate accounting scandals that took out Enron, Arthur Andersen and WorldCom? They all ended with prison sentences, layoffs, and billions of investor dollars lost forever.
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Aug 13, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
There are many different types of objects that we can work with in Python. Dates are one of those objects that are infamous in nearly every language. Date types are notoriously hard to wrangle but Python has quite a few ways to manipulate dates and time.
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Aug 10, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
It's easy to copy files with
PowerShell Copy-Item via the command line. Once you specify the source and destination location, it just happens. Unfortunately, many administrators don't think about how this process occurs until it doesn't work.
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Aug 7, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
When you need to get access to a command line console like PowerShell or Bash, where do you go?
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Aug 2, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Michael O'Dwyer
Back in the early Jurassic era, when Windows NT Server was the OS of choice, an earlier enterprise employer of mine was considering a company-wide change to Windows XP. Unfortunately, this wasn’t possible, and we remained on Windows 2000. Why? Because the entire...
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Aug 1, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
When writing PowerShell code and you need to search for text inside of a single string or an entire text file, where do you turn?
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Jul 30, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Greg Mooney
Nobody likes to be audited. It’s invasive and unpleasant, but being prepared for it can make the process much easier.
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Jul 30, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
If you’re in IT, chances are you’ve automated some task before. Whether it’s writing a script, building an application yourself or leveraging an off-the-shelf solution from a vendor; you’ve automated.
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Jul 27, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
PowerShell helps free up time by taking over certain service management tasks. See how to create such tools here.
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Jul 27, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Jeff Edwards
Today marks the 18th Sysadmin day since it was first founded by Ted Kekatos on July 28th, 2000. In honor of Sysadmin day—and the daily struggle of all IT Professionals, we present to you the Sysadmin Survival Guide, a collection of the best sysadmin resources from here...
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Jul 26, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Nate Lewis
After spending years as a far-off date on CIO calendars,
GDPR is finally here. The General Data Protection Regulation applies to all organizations that process the personal data of EU residents, even if the organization itself is based outside of the EU. The penalties...
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Jul 25, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Before the days of PowerShell Test-NetConnection, we had many different command-line tools we could choose from to troubleshoot various network connectivity issues. We had ping for testing ICMP echoes and replies; tracert to see where our packets might be getting...
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Jul 23, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Kevin Conklin
In your efforts to secure critical business and personal data, don't forget your file transfer and data sharing systems. One often overlooked area that can leave you vulnerable to cyber attack are outdated or under-managed FTP servers.
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Jul 23, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Basic details of your computer like operating system and version, memory, network adapter and hard drive are never stored in one central location. You always have to go clicking around for it. But if you've got Python installed, we can build a script that collects all of...
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Jul 20, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Julianna Bernardi
If you work in IT for a regulated industry, security is one of your top priorities. Especially when working for the government, healthcare or finance, it is extremely important that products and services adhere to government-approved security requirements to ensure that...
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Jul 20, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Alex Jablokow
Virtualization creates virtual resources that can be used the same way as any physical resource or application. Disk drive partitioning is a familiar form of virtualization. Servers, networks, desktops, applications, and storage can all be virtual.
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Jul 18, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Greg Mooney
External file transfers of digital assets are risky for everyone—no matter if you’re a healthcare organization, financial institution, insurance company, retail store, manufacturer or in education.
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Jul 17, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
If you're not already familiar with scriptblocks, after reading this article, you'll begin to see them all over the place in PowerShell in the form of an opening and a closing curly brace.
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