Windows OS Hub IT knowledge base for system administrators 2023-11-14T11:10:49Z https://woshub.com/feed/atom/ admin <![CDATA[How to Connect VPN Before Windows Logon]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15430 2023-11-14T11:10:49Z 2023-11-14T11:10:49Z 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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]]> 1 admin <![CDATA[Removing Azure Arc Setup Feature on Windows Server 2022]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15406 2023-11-09T04:40:33Z 2023-11-09T01:34:30Z 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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]]> 0 admin <![CDATA[Using WPAD (Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol) on Windows]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15388 2023-11-07T11:11:47Z 2023-11-07T11:11:47Z 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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]]> 0 admin <![CDATA[Send Emails with Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15376 2023-11-06T13:58:27Z 2023-11-06T13:58:27Z 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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]]> 0 admin <![CDATA[Zabbix: How to Get Data from PowerShell Scripts]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15351 2023-10-27T14:13:32Z 2023-10-27T14:12:58Z 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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]]> 0 admin <![CDATA[Tracking Printer Usage with Windows Event Viewer Logs]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15308 2023-10-19T09:04:14Z 2023-10-19T09:04:14Z 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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]]> 2 admin <![CDATA[PowerShell: Configure Certificate-Based Authentication for Exchange Online (Azure)]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15286 2023-10-06T11:20:52Z 2023-10-15T21:55:32Z 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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]]> 0 admin <![CDATA[Reset Root Password in VMware ESXi]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15285 2023-10-06T11:17:38Z 2023-10-12T10:32:31Z 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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]]> 0 admin <![CDATA[How to Query and Change Teams User Presence Status with PowerShell]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15276 2023-10-06T11:18:42Z 2023-10-08T19:31:13Z 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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]]> 0 admin <![CDATA[How to Increase Size of Disk Partition in Ubuntu]]> https://woshub.com/?p=15269 2023-10-05T06:43:08Z 2023-10-05T06:27:05Z 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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