So long, and Thanks for all the Sid’s

posted by terje in Tools

On the retiring of the NewSid tool and the creation of Myths in IT

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When working as a consultant, its not unusual to come across  customers who for some reason has chosen to do things in a way that is not in accordance with established “Best Practice”.

Often the customer will tell you that it is because of some unique characteristic of his solutions and environment, and that the decision not to honor the best practice is based on previous experience of internal staff, and/or other external consultants. The rationale behind the decisions might have been true in the past , but may not be true anymore.
However- the details of the previous experience is not known, – but someone once made this decision, so it must have been based on some rational reason, – right?
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PowerShell Scripts for finding Services and Scheduled Tasks that are using a specific account

posted by terje in PowerShell

ps1s1 A while ago I created some scripts that others might find useful.
The scripts where made for checking whether or not it was safe to disable a specific account, by looking for services and scheduled tasks that might be needing this account to run.
The scripts where originally made for checking win-2003 servers.

I have written them so that they now look for the use of the local administrator account on the servers, the scripts can therefore be helpful if you are going to disable this account in your environment (which you should..)
I made three scripts to accomplish this task, one “ping-script” to get a list of servers to check, one to check for services and one to check for scheduled tasks.

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