Salomon Johns

I have become fascinated with scraping content off of Instagram mainly for curiosity and helping my wife analyze her competitors pages in terms of hashtags, ranking, and image placement, times posted, etc. I was certain something had been written for this before that was free, but it seems like there are bits and pieces out there in python, php, and a variety of other languages. Not to mention many paid solutions. I stumbled into a piece on github: https://gist.github.com/cosmocatalano/4544576 and…

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As a systems administrator sometimes I find myself in a situation where I need to make a registry change across a few computers, or even a few hundred. I was googleing for a while this week trying to figure this out and saw some very complex solutions, but found a few sites to include TechNet that lead me into this much simpler solution: @echo off FOR /f %%F IN (feedme.txt) DO ( REG ADD \\%%F\HKLM\SYSTEM\example\example /v TestValue /t REG_DWORD /d…

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A few days ago I wrote up a small post on modifying extension attributes for computer objects in Active Directory. I recently set up a lab with Server 2012 and found that extensionattribute1 is now msDS-cloudExtensionAttribute1, and if you just drop in msDS-cloudExtensionAttribute1 without quotes it has issues… This gave me a small headache, after reading this link I found that simply putting quotes around it, fixed it. The following code should work better in a server 2012 enviornment. import-module activedirectory…

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For those looking to query or do something within Active Directory in a PowerShell script, one of the most common mishaps I see at work is people forgetting to import the model. Often times everything else is fine, no syntax errors, etc. A simple fix for that is: import-module activedirectory The error generally looks something like this: PS C:\Users\userone> New-ADComputer -Name test The term ‘New-ADComputer’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program….

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Sometimes I find the need to create 10-20 computers for my AD lab at home, to do this in PowerShell you can run the following command: Get-Content computers.txt | ForEach-Object { New-ADComputer -Name $_ } If you want to create the computer objects in an OU other than “Computers”, lets say you want to prestage a number of computer objects for a new department, you could do this: Get-Content computers.txt | ForEach-Object { New-ADComputer -Name $_ -Path “Specify Path”}

Some of you may find this useful, I ran into this problem where I needed to set the value of an extension attribute on a number of hosts from a list. The following script should take care of that. At the end, it will let you know that the host is finished, it will output an error if one occurs. import-module activedirectory $machines = Get-Content “C:\PATH TO LIST\feedme.txt” foreach($machinename in $machines) { Set-ADComputer $machinename -add @{extensionattribute10 = “VALUE IN THE…

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