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Problem:
After approving updates in WSUS and wanting to then install them you have to either wait 24 hours which is the default interval (this can be changed in a GPO) or you can manually run wuauclt.exe /detectnow and wuauclt.exe /reportnow. How can we run this on all servers in the domain?
This is a quick post to mention the very useful AWS policy generator. There are many times you will need to generate JSON based policies when using AWS. You can write the code yourself or you can just let the policy generator do it for you.
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This post will take you through some steps to setup an AWS SES (Amazon Web Services Simple Email Service) dashboard and daily reporting tool. If you are moving any production systems over to SES you will need a method of keeping track of email bounces. If you do not stay on top of it Amazon will suspend your account.
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Problem:
A client has several hundred GPOs and you need to find a single GPO where they have input an identifiable string i.e. a server name. Instead of searching through each GPO individually we can do this in PowerShell.
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This is a quick script to show you how to get the user of a particular computer from the description field in Active Directory. This will only work of course if you have filled in the user of the computer in the description field.
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This is a script I wrote to update an AWS IAM policy using the AWS PowerShell toolkit. It is used in conjunction with AWS SES or Simple Email Service to allow easy editing of the list of email addresses that a particular IAM account is allowed to send from.
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