Sometimes back I was working on a free notification system using Telegram Bot (https://telegram.org/blog/bot-revolution), and I wrote a simple function in PowerShell, which could be use in various ways for sending instant notification to any smartphone for free (http://bit.ly/2ys1gF5). I thought what else we could do with it, and I have got an idea to use it as AWS Automation
Category: Admin Tools
Review/Discuss of various handy tools for Admins..
Add new Admin Account to AWS Windows Instances to rescue the system
As mentioned earlier, we could reset the local admin password of windows instances via registry, but unfortunately that will not going to help us if we forget the user id details or we renamed the user id. And the good news is, we still will be able to logon into the system by creating one new Admin Account using AWS
Cleanup disabled users from AD Group/s
Cleanup disabled accounts from groups is one of the most boring job, and also take lots of time. Manually it’s almost impossible to maintain. Recently I had a request to perform such task for many groups, so, I wrote a script to do it automatically on behalf of me. I am now sharing this script, hoping this might help you
Re-enabling Network Adapter in Azure VM (Resource Manager)
It is very common that sometimes we disabled the network adapter from VM to trouble shoot some network related issue, and after doing so we suddenly realize that we made a big mistake, especially if we do it on Azure VMs. Suddenly we lost all the communication to the VM, no RDP, no PowerShell, and VM got completely isolated from
New Feature : EC2 Instance Console Screenshot for Boot Troubleshooting
Finally a great feature add to AWS EC2 instances (HVM virtualization only), which was requested by almost everyone. Now we can take a console screenshot of any EC2 Instances. This is now available publicly. Earlier we had to log a case with AWS Support to get the AWS Console screenshot. This is a similar feature like Boot Diagnostics for Azure
Multi-Threading Super-Fast Disk Utilization Report using Background Jobs in PowerShell
Automate task using script is always helpful, it reduced human error and efforts, but sometimes it still takes a lots of time to execute same command on multiple remote servers one by one. For example, my disk utilization script, it works perfectly fine, but taking lots of time to generate report for thousands of servers. To get the result faster