In a previous video I used just PowerShell to install software remotely. In this video I show you how to use the Chocolatey packager manager to install packages (software) from the chocolatey repository on multiple computers simultaneously using a single function. Be careful what packages you’re downloading, there are …

This is the successor to the first inventory script I put together in 2016 https://www.cyberautomate.io/posts/2016/remote-computer-inventory-powershell/ This version uses the Get-CIMInstance CMDlet to get all the information from the WMI classes as opposed to the WMI CMDlets. I have also added some additional …

In my experience splatting is one of those often overlooked and underutilized features of PowerShell. Full disclosure, I don’t use it regularly myself. Most times I just forget it’s a thing. For those that are new to PowerShell, splatting looks more difficult than it really is. The whole idea of this video is to …

I dabble a bit in Merch by Amazon and have grown to hate the monthly sales reports they give you. For whatever reason, Amazon dumps a bunch of useless information in the first column of the CSV file. Why they do that, I have no idea, but it makes the CSV files difficult to use from a data analysis perspective. There …

This is a request that was made by someone a few months ago. It’s been a while so I apologize for not remembering who requested it. We’re using the Win32_GroupUser class to get the local administrators of a computer or many computers remotely. The function is modular enough to give you the ability to view the results …

My previous video walked through the process of using the old Visual Studio Team Services VS Code extension. That extension has now been deprecated. With the latest version or VS Code (I installed v 1.28.1) you should see the Azure Repos extension baked into VS Code. The only other requirement is a local Git repo (I …

My Requirements: Use PowerShell to minimize the time spent on creating VMs. Install ADDS along with the VM creation. Use a differencing disk for all the VMs to save disk space. In the spirit of kickstarting this channel again, I needed to spin up a few Virtual Machines to facilitate PowerShelling. I was going to go …

Greetings interweb. It’s been a while but I’m back with a new video finally. This video focuses on Desired State Configuration Manager (DSC) and how to configure Advanced Auditing using DSC. You can certainly configure DSC using a group policy object (GPO). My use case for this is if you have a public facing web …

To demonstrate this process, I will show you how I export all the PowerShell help and convert it to PDF files that I use instead of looking at the help files in the PowerShell Console. I realize you can view the PowerShell help files in the console and online. The purpose of this script is to demonstrate how I solved …

As you may or may not know, I recently decommissioned my old Dell PowerEdge 1950 server that I used for a few Lab virtual machines. While experimenting with PowerShell on these Virtual Machines, I have found myself in the situation where it would be easier to delete the Virtual Machines and re-create them instead of …