Windows OS Hub https://woshub.com IT knowledge base for system administrators Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:10:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How to Connect VPN Before Windows Logon https://woshub.com/connect-vpn-before-logon/ https://woshub.com/connect-vpn-before-logon/#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:10:49 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15430 By default, the built-in Windows VPN client does not allow you to connect to the VPN server until the user logs in. This is inconvenient for Active Directory-joined computers connected…

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]]> https://woshub.com/connect-vpn-before-logon/feed/ 1 Removing Azure Arc Setup Feature on Windows Server 2022 https://woshub.com/azure-arc-feature-windows-server/ https://woshub.com/azure-arc-feature-windows-server/#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:34:30 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15406 October cumulative update KB5031364 for Windows Server 2022 adds new Azure Arc Setup feature. In addition, Azure Arc has not only been added as an optional component, but it is…

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]]> https://woshub.com/azure-arc-feature-windows-server/feed/ 0 Using WPAD (Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol) on Windows https://woshub.com/wpad-proxy-auto-discovery-windows/ https://woshub.com/wpad-proxy-auto-discovery-windows/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2023 11:11:47 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15388 The WPAD (Web Proxy Auto-Discovery) protocol allows you to easily configure the proxy settings on the clients in your network. The idea behind WPAD is that a client can use…

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]]> https://woshub.com/wpad-proxy-auto-discovery-windows/feed/ 0 Send Emails with Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell https://woshub.com/send-email-microsoft-graph-api-powershell/ https://woshub.com/send-email-microsoft-graph-api-powershell/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:58:27 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15376 To send e-mail through an SMTP server from PowerShell scripts, you can use the built-in Send-MailMessage cmdlet. Its major drawback is that it can only use Basic SMTP authentication and…

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]]> https://woshub.com/send-email-microsoft-graph-api-powershell/feed/ 0 Zabbix: How to Get Data from PowerShell Scripts https://woshub.com/zabbix-powershell-scripts/ https://woshub.com/zabbix-powershell-scripts/#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:12:58 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15351 In this article, we will look at configuring the Zabbix Agent to retrieve monitoring data from PowerShell scripts. Let’s look at two PowerShell scripts to get some data into Zabbix.…

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]]> https://woshub.com/zabbix-powershell-scripts/feed/ 0 Tracking Printer Usage with Windows Event Viewer Logs https://woshub.com/check-printer-usage-windows/ https://woshub.com/check-printer-usage-windows/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:04:14 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15308 In Windows, you can track printer usage with the Event Viewer. All print jobs sent to the print spooler are logged in the Event Viewer. If you have a print…

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]]> https://woshub.com/check-printer-usage-windows/feed/ 2 PowerShell: Configure Certificate-Based Authentication for Exchange Online (Azure) https://woshub.com/powershell-certificate-based-auth-exchange-azure/ https://woshub.com/powershell-certificate-based-auth-exchange-azure/#respond Sun, 15 Oct 2023 21:55:32 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15286 Microsoft Entra ID (ex Azure AD) supports Certificate Based Authentication (CBA). This means that you can use certificate authentication to automatically run your PowerShell scripts with no password entry and…

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]]> https://woshub.com/powershell-certificate-based-auth-exchange-azure/feed/ 0 Reset Root Password in VMware ESXi https://woshub.com/reset-password-vmware-esxi/ https://woshub.com/reset-password-vmware-esxi/#respond Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:32:31 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15285 According to the official VMware documentation, reinstalling ESXi from scratch is the only supported way to reset the root password (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1317898). You can also reset your password using Host Profiles…

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]]> https://woshub.com/reset-password-vmware-esxi/feed/ 0 How to Query and Change Teams User Presence Status with PowerShell https://woshub.com/teams-presence-status-powershell/ https://woshub.com/teams-presence-status-powershell/#respond Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:31:13 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15276 It may be necessary to check the user’s presence status (Online/Away/Busy) in Microsoft Teams before performing a particular action for some integration scripts. Let’s have a look at how to…

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]]> https://woshub.com/teams-presence-status-powershell/feed/ 0 How to Increase Size of Disk Partition in Ubuntu https://woshub.com/increase-partition-size-ubuntu/ https://woshub.com/increase-partition-size-ubuntu/#respond Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:27:05 +0000 https://woshub.com/?p=15269 If you have Ubuntu Linux virtual machines, it is highly likely that you will need to expand your virtual hard disk and increase the partition in the guest OS. By…

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