Utils
Internet Access Control Utility
· β˜• 2 min read
Control Internet access with Windows Firewall Internet Access Control Utility is available from: GitHub The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the ‘issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements It requires Windows Firewall to be active. The utility requires at least PowerShell 5.0. This utility has been tested on Windows 11 and Windows 10.

Logon Audit Utility
· β˜• 2 min read
Really simple log on/off auditing utility Logon Audit Utility is available from: GitHub The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the β€˜issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements The utility should be run on a client machine. It is ideally triggered as a logon/logoff script by Group Policy. Any files that the script needs to access should be accessible from a client device.

Remove MS Store Apps Utility
· β˜• 6 min read
Customisable Windows 10/11 Microsoft Store App removal utility, previously known as Remove-Win10-Apps Remove MS Store Apps Utility is available from: GitHub The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the β€˜issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements Remove specified apps for the current logged on user. Remove specified apps from the system for all users.

Office Update Utility
· β˜• 5 min read
Microsoft Office Update Manager Office Update Utility is available from: GitHub The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the ‘issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements This utility will check for and download update files for Microsoft Office. It can also remove old update files. This utility requires the Office Deployment Tool a free download available here.

Hyper-V Backup Utility
· β˜• 13 min read
Flexible Hyper-V Backup Utility Hyper-V Backup Utility is available from: GitHub The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the ‘issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements Designed to be run on a Hyper-V host. The Hyper-V host must have the Hyper-V management PowerShell modules installed. Can be used to backup VMs to a device which the Hyper-V host does not have permission to run a regular export to.

On-Prem AD User Creator Utility
· β˜• 5 min read
Configurable Script For Creating On-Prem Active Directory User Accounts On-Prem AD User Creator Utility is available from: GitHub Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the ‘issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements Requires the Active Directory PowerShell module be installed. Requires A CSV file containing the FirstName and LastName of each user to create.

WSUS Maintenance Utility
· β˜• 5 min read
Clean up WSUS WSUS Maintenance Utility is available from: GitHub The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the ‘issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements It’s designed to run either on a WSUS server itself or can be run from a remote machine. The computer that is running the utility must have the WSUS management PowerShell modules installed.

Image Factory Utility
· β˜• 8 min read
Automate Creation of WIM Files Image Factory Utility is available from: GitHub The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the β€˜issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements This utility is designed to run on a computer with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit installed. The computer must have either the Hyper-V management PowerShell modules installed, or Virtual Box.

Log Manager Utility
· β˜• 5 min read
Flexible clean up and backup of log files For full change log and more information, visit my site. Log Manager Utility is available from: GitHub The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery Please consider supporting my work: Support with a one-time donation using PayPal. Please report any problems via the ‘issues’ tab on GitHub. Thanks -Mike Features and Requirements The utility will delete files and folders older than X days.