Dewayne Burress

Ok, so I realize this post won't apply to most people, but I want to share this just in case it can save someone hours of digging for VPN PowerShell commands.   The other day I found myself with a strange request from a client, they wanted to push out a VPN connection profile from Intune, and enable it so that it always stays connected when the PC has an internet connection.  We the short version of the story is I have not done a full deployment of always on, the 2nd part of the story is they wanted to use the VPN connection as the primary network connection of the currently non-domain joined machines 200+.  To make a long story short I wasn't able to get the simple certificate services to enroll intune joined user certificates to connect to the internal PKI infrastructure as it failed to autoenroll with a very detailed error.  "NO DATA".  So welcome to plan B. B-Plan was a simple L2TP connection using the same RAS, NPS server.  One a profile was built and tested th

Do you ever wake up at night in a panic...wondering are all my GPO's syncd?  Me too!  So today I thought I would write a GPO script that would allow me to check the versions of all my GPO's! As you know the GPO version number is stored in a TXT based file in the root of each {<random string>} GIUD number folder and in the TXT file is a version number value. The script does the following: Gets all the domain controllers in your domain (Checks if they are online or not) Gets all of the {GUID's} in each servers sysvol (If the path exists) Reads the version number for each one (If the file exists) Reports if there are errors Checks to see if all the versions match Prints out a nice report of Server, GUID, Version Required Modules :  ActiveDirectory Required Permissions :  RunAs Administrator on a domain controller as a domain admin account. Results: Script: #Group Policy Version Checker $startpath = get-location | select path $startpath = $s