@siringo watch resource monitor, resmon.exe, when during the delay of opening an app seemingly caused solely by connecting to the wifi network.
For paint.exe to open instantly prior to wifi connection, then slowly after, and instantly off wifi... seems like you'll notice something in resmon somewhere. Maybe A/V or something. Look at everything even the network and possible new tcp connections when you open paint.
@gjacobse said in Does a script imply Automation?:
@travisdh1 said in Does a script imply Automation?:
Where did that question even bubble up from?
This is from a Teams Chat with the other three Service Desk / IT people ....
Right. A script can be used as a means to carry out the automation of a task or a set of tasks.
I thought about paying for DuoLingo because I can't stand the ads all the time and lack of freedom.
But lately I have been doing a lot on Anki. There's some really great decks in there. I also paired it with Mango which has been great as well. Another one that is great is Beelingual when you want to start doing more reading.
TL;DR
Anki
Mango
Beelingual
@pete-s said in script to download and extract MicroSip portable:
@dashrender said in script to download and extract MicroSip portable:
I've been wanting a way to download the latest version of MicroSip portable.
I realize this doesn't ensure I'm getting the latest version of MicroSip - I'm relying on the lastest being the first listed item that's a portable version, but it's a start.
If you can offer suggestions on how to do a comparison of the list of /downloads/MICROSIP-x.xx.xx.zip I'd appreciate it.
I suggest scraping the source file list instead. https://www.microsip.org/source
From that take the highest version and download the zip version based on the version number.
I would also send the programmer(s) an email and ask if he/she has another way to determine what the latest version is. Perhaps without scraping html. Maybe there is a list of versions or files somewhere that is maintained.
Yeah that source page looks like a better place to do it. Same basic code will work with a few changes. Scraping HTML sucks but if that's what ya gotta do... until you find a better option it should work fine. Perhaps the sources page will be more reliable.
@dashrender said in script to download and extract MicroSip portable:
I've been wanting a way to download the latest version of MicroSip portable.
$Save_Path = 'C:\ESD\' $Expand_Path = 'C:\ESD\expand\' $Web_URI = 'https://microsip.org/downloads' $Web_URI_Root = 'https://microsip.org' $DL_list = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Web_URI -Method GET) $Link = $DL_list.Links | Where-Object {$_.outerText -eq 'portable'} | Select-Object href -First 1 Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ($Web_URI_Root + $Link.href) -OutFile ($Save_Path + (Split-Path $Link.href -Leaf) ) Expand-Archive ($Save_Path + (Split-Path $Link.href -Leaf)) -DestinationPath $Expand_PathI realize this doesn't ensure I'm getting the latest version of MicroSip - I'm relying on the lastest being the first listed item that's a portable version, but it's a start.
If you can offer suggestions on how to do a comparison of the list of /downloads/MICROSIP-x.xx.xx.zip I'd appreciate it.
I didn't feel like getting into any regex atm, and wanted to keep it as close as I could to what you already have and work with that. Here's the end result I came up with that takes all the version numbers, sorts them, then finds the link matching the latest version, and downloads using that link. I also filtered for links that do not cointain "Lite", but you can change the notmatch to a match if Lite was the one you wanted. ( I assumed you were not interested in the Lite versions )
$Save_Path = 'C:\ESD\'
$Expand_Path = 'C:\ESD\expand\'
$Web_URI = 'https://microsip.org/downloads'
$Web_URI_Root = 'https://microsip.org'
$DL_list = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Web_URI -Method GET)
$Link = $DL_list.Links | Where-Object {$_.outerText -eq 'portable' -and $_.href -notmatch "Lite"} | Select-Object -Property href
$zipVer = foreach ($zip in $Link) {
[version](($zip -split '-') -split '.zip')[1]
}
$latestVer = [string]($zipVer | Sort-Object -Descending | Select-Object -First 1)
$latestLink = $Link | Where-Object {$_ -match $latestVer}
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ($Web_URI_Root + $latestLink.href) -OutFile ($Save_Path + (Split-Path $Link.href -Leaf))
Expand-Archive ($Save_Path + (Split-Path $Link.href -Leaf)) -DestinationPath $Expand_Path
A hardened system doesn't use ADDS and Windows.
@pmoncho said in Powershell split and sort date/time:
@obsolesce said in Powershell split and sort date/time:
@pmoncho said in Powershell split and sort date/time:
Small update - Changed code as I realized I had to build an additional array outside the foreach loop.
$taskserver = "RemoteSystem" $tNames = "*Location*" $taskList = (Get-ScheduledTask -CimSession $taskserver -TaskName $tNames) $_taskListing = foreach ($task in $taskList){ $tName = $task.TaskName $tNameXML = ($tName+".xml") $tPath = $task.TaskPath Get-ScheduledTaskInfo -CimSession $taskserver -TaskPath $tPath -TaskName $tName | Select-Object TaskName, NextRunTime } #check to see the array is sorting at least by TaskName $_taskListing | Sort TaskName -Descendingon the last line, have you tried sorting by the next run time?
$_taskListing | Sort NextRunTimeI just got back here and yes, I did that and it does sort it correctly. I forgot I had it sorted by TaskName, changed it and it worked fine (after setting it as an array).
I would still like to figure out how to separate the Date and Time though. That way I can use the most recent start time and add 1 minute to it for the new task that will be created.
So, while I have the sort fixed, how the heck do I split it?
My quick example output:
PS C:\Windows\system32> $_taskListing
TaskName NextRunTime
-------- -----------
MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineCore 10/13/2021 8:09:09 PM
MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineUA 10/13/2021 12:39:39 PM
Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser 10/14/2021 3:14:14 AM
Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector
Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticResolver
If you get the type of one of the objects your script is outputting:
($_taskListing.NextRunTime)[0].getType()
The result is:
PS C:\Windows\system32> ($_taskListing.NextRunTime)[0].getType()
IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType
-------- -------- ---- --------
True True DateTime System.ValueType
Because it's a DateTime object, it's easy to manipulate.
You can easily add one minute to it using one of the built in methods:
($_taskListing.NextRunTime)[0].AddMinutes(1)
PS C:\Windows\system32> ($_taskListing.NextRunTime)[0].AddMinutes(1)
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 8:10:09 PM
You can do this part how it works best with your workflow.
@pmoncho said in Powershell split and sort date/time:
Small update - Changed code as I realized I had to build an additional array outside the foreach loop.
$taskserver = "RemoteSystem" $tNames = "*Location*" $taskList = (Get-ScheduledTask -CimSession $taskserver -TaskName $tNames) $_taskListing = foreach ($task in $taskList){ $tName = $task.TaskName $tNameXML = ($tName+".xml") $tPath = $task.TaskPath Get-ScheduledTaskInfo -CimSession $taskserver -TaskPath $tPath -TaskName $tName | Select-Object TaskName, NextRunTime } #check to see the array is sorting at least by TaskName $_taskListing | Sort TaskName -Descending
on the last line, have you tried sorting by the next run time?
$_taskListing | Sort NextRunTime
@jclambert said in What are your Thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain?:
The basic premise of helping to stop horizontal attacks is wonderful
But the device is joined to an AD domain so horizontal attacks are allowed by default.
@eleceng said in What are your Thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain?:
What are your thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain?
Are these local admin accounts on servers or user devices?
@eleceng said in Local Administrator Accounts Security:
should we disable the administrator account and create a different named local account with admin privileges instead
@eleceng said in Local Administrator Accounts Security:
Are we gaining a lot of security by doing this?
Not likely, the fact the VM is joined to an on-prem AD domain means that it's very likely you've technically already lost any and all security to the device/VM.
The only gain here is that you're preventing some random person who's trying to authenticate to the system as a the local Administrator from automatically knowing which username to log in with at that moment. But that is such a small aspect to the actual security of the system you can basically say that no, you are not technically gaining any security by doing that.
It's still not even close to being a concise article. The only real metric there being discussed is simply age?
Maybe the SSDs moved 100x the data in their much shorter age so far? That would mean a lot and change the outcome significantly.
I've been playing some Diablo 2 Resurrected in the evenings and so far it's been a lot of fun.
Is anyone else here playing it?
@dashrender said in hot potato workers:
@jaredbusch said in hot potato workers:
@obsolesce said in hot potato workers:
TL:DR entire thread, but why not disable fast user switching? That would force the user to have to log out if anything.
Completely forgot about that.
Can a normal user force log off a logged on user if the screen is locked?nope.
You could turn on auditing for logon/logoff events, then run a logoff script when the lock event triggers if that's an issue.
@dashrender said in hot potato workers:
I have a front desk area of 10 workstations that I need to allow these 10 workers and about 20 others to randomly log into any of these 10 stations and have full function.
Each station has an insurance card scanner - software will only load for one profile at a time. I.e. if person 1 is logged in, then person 2 logs in while suspending (not logging off) person 1, the scanner won't work.
The printers are based on front desk location, so it's workstation based, regardless of who logs in.
Lastpass needs to be installed into Chrome and ready to go regardless of who logs into the PC.
As already mentioned - as backup to sick front desk staff, a group of 20 or so can be assigned to fill in as needed, and they need the ability to do all functions from these computers as well.
Because it's a medical shop - my users need the ability to lock their computers when they go to the bathroom - so I'm thinking a shared account likely isn't going to work.
TL:DR entire thread, but why not disable fast user switching? That would force the user to have to log out if anything.
@dashrender said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:
@scottalanmiller said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:
@dashrender said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:
I'm primarily asking in regards to HIPAA.More importantly than "is it secure" would be "does it meet HIPAA requirements?"
In both cases, the answer is "no". It is a HIPAA violation to use one for PHI.
Well, people are now making excuses - the data collected on them isn't PHI therefore we don't need to worry about it. /sigh.
Then the negligence law takes place which is more strict than hipaa iirc @scottalanmiller
@dashrender said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:
Would you consider this a secure device today?
They are pretty shiny and slippery, so I doubt they are secure enough to ensure an unbalanced table leg doesn't slip off of it.
@jaredbusch said in I can't even:
You just made me log in for the first time in nearly a year just to thumbs down that assclown.
@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Don't forget about the smell of walking into a Blockbuster Video.
