Microsoft AD DNS – How to force Google Safe Search

Forcing safe-search for Google is very simple, and pretty hard to turn off. Couple it together with filtering DNS queries and you’ve got yourself a pretty robust content filter. First I’m going to show you the powershell way (run powershell as admin), then I will show you the GUI way.   add-dnsserverprimaryzone -ReplicationScope Forest -Name …

Windows 7 – Mount multiple ISOs to Directory with Powershell for Free

So I’m in a situation where I need over 30 ISOs mounted on reboot to folders. Luckily PISMO file mount does this perfectly! http://pismotec.com/ They even provide command line support for their software. That means we can script something small with powershell. My goal was that all my ISOs get mounted to the same directories …

MDT – Slipstream Windows Updates into Boot Image with Powershell

The below powershell script will mount your .wim file from your deployment share, to C:\mount (make sure that folder exists). Then it will get updates that you extracted from a Fully updated Windows machine. Those updates can be found in C:\windows\softwaredistribution\ (then copy them to your MDT server so you can slipstream them) . Once you have …

How to create a DFSNfolder with no target in PowerShell

TLDR; to create an empty dfsnfolder you must create a dfsnfolder with a target underneath I spent way too much time banging my head on this one. What I’m trying to do is automate DFS deployments on servers, so naturally I want to create DFSNfolders without targets in them so I can have a fancy-looking structure. The …

Sonicwall Dynamic DNS: DynDNS Status shows “Network error”

If you have Dynamic DNS via DynDNS and you use it on your sonicwalls  you may be getting the status that shows “network error” like the screenshot below…     Recently DynDNS changed the way they hash passwords so you will need to reset your password for the service to start working again. Change your …

Finally finished my homelab!

  The monitors and stand I got from a friend for $400, I connect my surface pro 3 via usb displaylink adapters and it works great! (4x 27″ dell (older model) screens) Top – Synology 1515+ (4x 1Gbps nic + 1 Wifi USB Adapter for MGMT) With three 1TB drives in Raid-5 Also two 250GB …