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VBA in Excel is very helpful since it can run things without any human intervention, or technically it can run task and automate things and just get the result. VBA coupled with PowerShell can even be more interesting. Of course, there is always some drawback or pros and cons. Bad actor can take advantage of VBA and PowerShell to run malicious software on user’s computer. For most users who are not aware or doesn’t believe that VBA and PowerShell can be used to steal data, one common reaction is; Is it possible? Or you are just trying to exaggerate and scare people? As the odds say, to see is to believe. Or to see it in action is one thing and trying to educate users is another thing. Cyber Security is a task that everyone should be a part of, a chain is useless if one its link is weak. Which is basically, true in digital world. The company may spend thousands of moneys on Firewall, Anti-Virus and other devices or software to thwart attack but just a simple click on a Phishin...

Task Scheduler is an awesome tool that every Sys Admin should be familiar with it. Task Scheduler in a way can help automate task, if the task is repetitive or a task that has to be done at a certain date and time, or a task has to be done once a week, once a month or even once a year. Task Scheduler is the best tool for this scenario. In this busy world of digital technology, who can keep remembering that a task must be done on a specific date and time. Yes, it might works once but as time goes on and task or jobs of a Sys Admin keep filing up chances are the task might be forgotten and the person-in-charge might just remember the things that needs to be done if there is an issue that happens already. So, Task Scheduler is a tool in which you test once, set if tested okay and forget about it. Test to make sure that the task to be set, works properly and just forgot about it; it will do the task repetitively albeit depends on the settings that was set. Of course, Task Scheduler...

Monitoring space is quite crucial in a critical system, or basically checking the disk space whether there is enough free space for continual operation is a good thing to consider in a production environment. A simple PowerShell script can save the day by monitoring the drive space of a specific drive that needs to be checked or monitored. It doesn’t need a complex tool to do this kind of task. Here’s a one-liner PowerShell script to check free space on C drive. Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk -filter "DeviceID = 'c:' " | Select-Object   { $_ . FreeSpace / 1GB }   "DeviceID = 'c:' " = this can be changed to any drive letter Output of the above command: $_.FreeSpace /1GB -----------------   293.042289733887   Or to include the existing size of the drive, the command can be tweaked like this: Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk -filter "DeviceID = 'c:' " | Select-Object   { $_ . FreeSpace / 1GB } , { $...

How to get running processes with PowerShell using WMI and display its path. PowerShell below will display the path and also the command line of the process on how the process was executed. The code below will also display the process-id, the process-id or PID can also be supplied to an application called handle64 from SysInternal tools. This tool is quite cool since it will display more info about the PID supplied to handle application. Download link for handle64: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/handle Example output of handle64: Skype.exe pid: 42360 DESKTOP-Name\iuser-xname    40: File          C:\Windows    84: File          C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Skype for Desktop   24C: File          C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b23cb64144ccf1df_6.0.19041.1_none_fd031af4F787f5b0106f2   380: File          C:...

Nano editor in Linux is quite handy when working with text files in terminal window. Here's some keystroke that is quite useful when using Nano or editing text file with Nano. Ctrl + i  is like pressing the "Tab" key Ctrl + y will   go to top of the current displayed window or the top of the current nano screen Ctrl + v will go to the end of the current displayed window or the end of the current nano screen Ctrl + m  will move current line below the current cursor position Ctrl  + d will delete empty line                or will delete tab spaces                or will delete a single character if the line has text on it Ctrl + k   will cut the current line or current line will be cut and copied to clipboard (like Ctrl + x in word document if the text is highlighted) Ctrl + u   will paste the line that was cut or whatever is on the clipboard (like Ctrl /+ v in word doc...