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
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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
Multi-Thread Super-Fast Software Inventory Scan using WSMan (PowerShell Remoting)
Recently I was asked to pull the software inventory report from multiple severs hosted in Azure, but unfortunately pulling data from WMI not allowed, only PS Remoting was enabled, so I made some changes on my previous script and used Invoke-command to pull the date for all the servers. It was easy and the most effective way to extract that report
AWS Region now in India – AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
AWS expanding their footprint again, this time with a new region in Mumbai, India. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region to better serve end users in India. New Region The new Mumbai region has two Availability Zones, raising the global total to 35. It supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (C4, M4, T2, D2, I2,
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
