Windows – Peter the Automator

Removing large folders in Windows

Removing folders with a large quantity of files can take up quite some time. Windows explorer first calculates the the removal time by counting the files and sizes before the removal process eventually starts.There are faster ways to remove these large folder by batch and PowerShell. Both don’t do any form of calculation, but begin…

Nexus Repository Manager 3 unattended configuration with API and PowerShell

Nexus Repository Manager 3 is a tool to create private repositories for Maven, NuGet, Python, Docker and several other package systems. I was requested to automate the installation. The first of the requirements was that it would run on a Windows Server OS. The second one was that two repositories had to be created. One…

NET ::ERR_CERT_INVALID error in Google Chrome when visiting websites using a private (Root) certificate

We were introduced with a rather strange issue where a website using an internal URL with an SSL certificate was deemed invalid by Google Chrome for about 30% of the company. Both the website and root certificates are not expired and available through the Windows Certificate Store. Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer (I know,…

Pester 5 Configuration settings

Since Pester v5 was released this legacy warning appears every time a Pester test is performed with the -CodeCoverage flag being used. WARNING: You are using Legacy parameter set that adapts Pester 5 syntax to Pester 4 syntax. This parameter set is deprecated, and does not work 100%. The -Strict and -PesterOption parameters are ignored,…

ForEach versus ForEach-Object

The ForEach-Object cmdlet performs an operation on each item in an array of input objects. There are two methods to implement the ForEach command; 1. $Range | ForEach-Object {}2. ForEach ($Number in $Range) {} Both methods perform the same actions with the same outcome, but they do their job in a different way. In this…

Run Python (Django) websites in IIS

I got into a scenario where it was required to run a Python (Django) website in IIS and, as an additional requirement, the configuration needed to be fully automated. I made a little index with all the steps that I took to make the scenario happen. Install Python Install Microsoft IIS with required extra features…

Disable and remove inactive accounts in Active Directory

Quite a few companies don’t have proper account management software to maintain their users in Active Directory . Accounts that remain active while the employees already left the company can be a security risk. This little script will disable and remove inactive accounts. The script performs the following actions:– Disable accounts that have not been…

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