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How to take ownership of a terminal user folder so you can safely remove it

By Laurens Gregoir Wednesday 25 March 2020ITMicrosoft, Powershell, RDP, Terminal ServerNo Comments

Introduction This was an annoying issue for me to remove the a terminal server user's profile from our file servers. Each time you need to remove an user's folder you get the standard access denied, then you need to change the permissions, inheritance, etc... so to save my colleagues and…

Script to start and stop Microsoft Direct Access when needed

By Laurens Gregoir Wednesday 25 March 2020ITDirect Access, Microsoft, Powershell, Servers, VPNNo Comments

Why? With COVID-19 (Corona) the need to work from home/ remote is needed more then ever. We were lucky to have a decent setup in the company I work for to support over 350 users to work remote without any major issues. Besides our trusty clustered VPN solution we have…

Setting up PiHole within a Windows domain

By Laurens Gregoir Thursday 20 December 2018ITDebian, DNS, Networking, PiholeNo Comments

Introduction Since ads are bothering me more and more, and if you feel the same like me you can look into installing PiHole on a Debian server (or RaspberryPi, whatever...). This setup includes Easylist functionality! The following is my PiHole setup: In my domain there are two domain servers. The…

Powershell Robocopy backup script

By Laurens Gregoir Thursday 01 February 2018ITPowershell, RobocopyNo Comments

Introduction This PowerShell robocopy script allows you to copy files and folders from one location to another using mirroring and multi threading to speeding up the copy process. It will keep the original permissions on the new location Pr-requisites Show start and end time of the backup job The duration…