Category: script

Report of DNS settings on all Windows Servers via powershell

August 30, 2023 / / 0 Comments 
$AllServers=Get-ADComputer -Filter {OperatingSystem -Like "Windows Server*" -and Enabled -eq 'True'}
$Servers = ForEach ($Server in $AllServers){

$Result=Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter "IPEnabled = 'True'" -Property DNSServerSearchOrder -ComputerName $Server.Name

New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
ComputerName = $Server.Name -join ','
DNSServerSearchOrder = $Result.DNSServerSearchOrder -join ','

} | Select-Object ComputerName,DNSServerSearchOrder | Export-Csv -Path C:\Temp\ServerDNSSettings.csv -NoTypeInformation -Append
}

Run this from a domain controller and it will report the DNS servers set on the NIC card.

Export all Azure Active Directory Users

September 7, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Azure Active Directory has a ton of attributes which hold potentially useful information. I needed to compare what attributes are synced from an On-Premise AD environment to Azure AD. The client was using AD Sync Connector to synchronize their AD.

After collecting all the attributes from a Microsoft knowledgebase article, I added them all to the below script

# Export/working path, please create it before running script
$Path = Split-Path -Parent "C:\scripts\*.*"

# Create variable for the date stamp in log file
$LogDate = Get-Date -f yyyyMMddhhmm

# Define CSV and log file location variables
# They have to be on the same location as the script
$Csvfile = $Path + "\AllAzADUsers_$logDate.csv"

# Get all Azure AD users
$AzADUsers = Get-AzureADUser -All $true | Select-Object -Property *

# Display progress bar
$progressCount = 0
for ($i = 0; $i -le $AzADUsers.Count; $i++) {

    Write-Progress `
        -Id 0 `
        -Activity "Retrieving User " `
        -Status "$progressCount of $($AzADUsers.Count)" `
        -PercentComplete (($progressCount / $AzADUsers.Count) * 100)

    $progressCount++
}

# Create list
$AzADUsers | Sort-Object GivenName | Select-Object `
@{Label = "First name"; Expression = { $_.GivenName } },
@{Label = "Last name"; Expression = { $_.Surname } },
@{Label = "Display name"; Expression = { $_.DisplayName } },
@{Label = "User principal name"; Expression = { $_.UserPrincipalName } },
@{Label = "Street"; Expression = { $_.StreetAddress } },
@{Label = "City"; Expression = { $_.City } },
@{Label = "State/province"; Expression = { $_.State } },
@{Label = "Zip/Postal Code"; Expression = { $_.PostalCode } },
@{Label = "Country/region"; Expression = { $_.Country } },
@{Label = "Job Title"; Expression = { $_.JobTitle } },
@{Label = "Department"; Expression = { $_.Department } },
@{Label = "Company"; Expression = { $_.CompanyName } },
@{Label = "Description"; Expression = { $_.Description } },
@{Label = "Office"; Expression = { $_.PhysicalDeliveryOfficeName } },
@{Label = "Telephone number"; Expression = { $_.TelephoneNumber } },
@{Label = "E-mail"; Expression = { $_.Mail } },
@{Label = "Mobile"; Expression = { $_.Mobile } },
@{Label = "User type"; Expression = { $_.UserType } },
@{Label = "ageGroup"; Expression = { $_.ageGroup } },
@{Label = "alernativeSecurityId"; Expression = { $_.alernativeSecurityId } },
@{Label = "alernativeSecurityIds"; Expression = { $_.alernativeSecurityIds } },
@{Label = "consentProvidedForMinor"; Expression = { $_.consentProvidedForMinor } },
@{Label = "createdDateTime"; Expression = { $_.createdDateTime } },
@{Label = "creationType"; Expression = { $_.creationType } },
@{Label = "dateOfBirth"; Expression = { $_.dateOfBirth } },
@{Label = "facsimileTelephoneNumber"; Expression = { $_.facsimileTelephoneNumber } },
@{Label = "immutableId"; Expression = { $_.immutableId } },
@{Label = "legalAgeGroupClassification"; Expression = { $_.legalAgeGroupClassification } },
@{Label = "legalCountry"; Expression = { $_.legalCountry } },
@{Label = "mailNickName"; Expression = { $_.mailNickName } },
@{Label = "netId"; Expression = { $_.netId } },
@{Label = "objectId"; Expression = { $_.objectId } },
@{Label = "otherMails"; Expression = { $_.otherMails } },
@{Label = "password"; Expression = { $_.password } },
@{Label = "passwordPolicies"; Expression = { $_.passwordPolicies } },
@{Label = "physicalDeliveryOfficeName (officeLocation)"; Expression = { $_.physicalDeliveryOfficeName } },
@{Label = "preferredLanguage"; Expression = { $_.preferredLanguage } },
@{Label = "signInNames"; Expression = { $_.signInNames } },
@{Label = "signInNames.userName"; Expression = { $_.signInNames.userName } },
@{Label = "signInNames.phoneNumber"; Expression = { $_.signInNames.phoneNumber  } },
@{Label = "signInNames.emailAddress"; Expression = { $_.signInNames.emailAddress  } },
@{Label = "strongAuthenticationAlternativePhoneNumber"; Expression = { $_.strongAuthenticationAlternativePhoneNumber } },
@{Label = "strongAuthenticationEmailAddress"; Expression = { $_.strongAuthenticationEmailAddress } },
@{Label = "strongAuthenticationPhoneNumber"; Expression = { $_.strongAuthenticationPhoneNumber } },
@{Label = "usageLocation"; Expression = { $_.usageLocation } },
@{Label = "userType"; Expression = { $_.userType } },
@{Label = "userState"; Expression = { $_.userState } },
@{Label = "userStateChangedOn"; Expression = { $_.userStateChangedOn } },
@{Label = "Dirsync"; Expression = { if (($_.DirSyncEnabled -eq 'True') ) { 'True' } Else { 'False' } } },
@{Label = "Account status"; Expression = { if (($_.AccountEnabled -eq 'True') ) { 'Enabled' } Else { 'Disabled' } } } |


# Export report to CSV file
Export-Csv -Encoding UTF8 -Path $Csvfile -NoTypeInformation #-Delimiter ";"

Replace Ubuntu Logo

October 21, 2018 / / 0 Comments

This might come in handy if you need to change the splash loading screen of the Ubuntu logo. However you will still have the purple loading dots just as an activity monitor.

Some important things to note about the script – 

If a file “branded.txt” exists in the “kiosk” user Document folder, it will stop the script from executing.

Once the system is “branded”, it will output the brand selection to the file “branded.txt” as can be seen in the script below.

Your custom logos need to be placed in a directory called “logos” in “/opt”

You need to have two copies of the same logo, but named differently in the directory /opt/logos and this should also reflect in the script.

The script relies on Zenity to be installed so that it can call a dialog box where it will ask for the logo number to be inputted.

If you have more than 4 logo’s which could be chosen, you can just extend the script and increase the input string number from “4” to your chosen amount.

!/bin/bash
inputStr=100
while [ $inputStr -gt 4 ]
do
if [ -e /home/kiosk/Documents/branded.txt ];
then
exit
else
inputStr=$(zenity --entry --title="Input Office Number" --text="Office Number:")
fi
case $inputStr in
1) mv /opt/logos/logo1.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.png & /opt/logos/logo11.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo16.png
        echo 'branded1' >/home/kiosk/Documents/branded.txt
;;
2) mv /opt/logos/logo2.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.png & /opt/logos/logo22.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo16.png
        echo 'branded2' >/home/kiosk/Documents/branded.txt
;;
3) mv /opt/logos/logo3.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.png & /opt/logos/logo33.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo16.png
        echo 'branded3' >/home/kiosk/Documents/branded.txt
;;
4) mv /opt/logos/logo4.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.png & /opt/logos/logo44.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo16.png
        echo 'branded4' >/home/kiosk/Documents/branded.txt
;;
esac
done

In addition to this script you will also need to edit the folder where the logos are placed by default for the system and also create the directory where you are storing your custom logos. You can do so by running the below commands

chmod +777 /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo
mkdir /opt/logos
chmod +777 /opt/logos

Bash script loops

October 21, 2018 / / 0 Comments

I’ve recently had to do some a project where I needed to launch a specific application on login of user account in an Ubuntu environment and where if it was closed, it would re-open again countless times. This is accomplished with the below – 

sudo install -b -m 755 /dev/stdin /opt/autolaunch.sh << EOF
!/bin/bash
xset -dpms
xset s off

while true; do
***APPLICATION COMMAND GOES HERE***
done
EOF

The above installs the script to launch at startup from the location /opt/autolaunch.sh. The first two commands are disabling power saving and the screensaver. The last part is the while loop.