Tools & Info for Sysadmins - User Account Audit, Programming Courses, Powershell Scripts & More

 

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A Free Tool

Audit-UserShare is an easy way to help tidy things up by finding old user accounts with home directories or old directories with no users. Its author Foyers adds, "You can also, move, delete and get the folder size of each user found."

A Website

Dojo is a fantastic free resource offering a wide array of technical articles, guides, ebooks, webinars and more written by Altaro's team of expert contributors—all designed to help sysadmins get better at what they do. Includes sections on VMware, Hyper-V and backup as well as one featuring information specifically geared to MSPs.

Training Resource

OpenEDG is an online education platform providing free online courses on three of the most popular programming languages in the world: Python, C and C++. A great way to build your skills or work toward various certifications at no cost. Our thanks for the suggestion go to schwaboy.

Scripts

Mega Collection of PowerShell Scripts is pretty much what the name would lead you to expect. Housing over 250 handy, cross-platform scripts—indexed by usage category (CLI, remote control, context menu etc.)—there's sure to be a little something for everyone. Credit for directing us to this one goes to iDam81, who confirms, "This is a great repo."

A Tutorial

Mentioning users in notifications using PSTeams PowerShell Module is a blog post in which you'll learn how to make use of a couple cool new features that came along after PSTeams 2.0. Kindly shared by MadBoyEvo, who explains, "it's now possible to send notifications to Microsoft Teams using PowerShell and mention a specific person. I've modified my PowerShell module that makes it easy to do so."

Cyberthreat Report

Hornetsecurity's 2021/22 Cyberthreat Report is now available for download. This free report provides insights on the specific threats and attack methods we tracked in 2021 as well as what to watch for in 2022.