With a recent change to our password policy, some users' passwords began expiring more frequently than before. This has had our phone support seeing an increase in calls. In order to monitor the situation, we wanted to see numbers for those groups regarding how many accounts had expired passwords and were another potential phone call. This script is written with a function … [Read more...]
Browse the web with PowerShell
PowerShell can be used to scrape websites for parsable content. This can allow your script to make smart decisions based on http, https, ftp, or file requests available. The cmdlet Invoke-WebRequest has been in PowerShell since version 3.0. It is able to take different parameters and return the webpage as an object. You can then use standard PowerShell parsing in order to … [Read more...]
It’s Javascript vs Python in ‘Empire of Code’
Empire of Code is a web game currently in beta that mixes strategy, tactics, and coding. It plays like a turn-based strategy game with elements of upgrading and building up your resources. You start out with a tutorial to familiarize yourself with the interface, gameplay, and options. A little bit into the tutorial and you will have to choose your side. Are you … [Read more...]
Google Summer of Code 2016 projects
Google Summer of Code has been around since 2005. In the program, Google partners with open source software projects and technology-based groups to fund students interested in working on real world software development for three months. Students gain good experience and advice from mentors. The organizations get specific projects or features developed while increasing the … [Read more...]
PowerShell script to uninstall QuickTime for Windows
Following the announcement that Apple has deprecated QuickTime rather than patch the disclosed vulnerabilities, I needed to get the plugin removed from across my organization. I wrote up a quick PowerShell script to search the Registry for the uninstall string and remove QuickTime while logging the process to my server. I then took this script and assigned it through Group … [Read more...]