#get-acl

Convert Little-endian UTF-16 to ASCII

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I generated some text files working with Get-Acl Powershell, but I did not know how to get Powershell to do some advanced features. (Basically, I wanted to the Select-String to include the next 2 lines and see whether a specific group was in that list. And maybe some exclusions.) So, I copied the files over to my Linux home to check there.

The…

Fix Dynamic DNS Record Permissions Automagically

If you’ve been following some of my past blog posts you’d notice I’ve been fighting some extremely hard to track down DNS problems. The problem reared it’s ugly head months ago when some important DNS records kept getting removed. No one could figure out a pattern or timeline as to when or why this was happening. After a ton of research and troubleshooting I believe I have at least discovered all…

Get Active Directory DNS Record ACL

I’ve been neck deep in a problem with Microsoft’s dynamic DNS on a DNS server for awhile now. In this process, it was discovered that servers were not updating the timestamp on their DNS A record because they did not have permission. In order to find all the problem records I needed a way to find which records did not have “Modify” rights to their respective server. The result is this script.…