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Step-by-Step Guide: Creating a Bootable USB from an ISO Image using PowerShell

Embarking on the journey to create a Windows bootable USB installer can often seem daunting, particularly when the convenience of an Internet connection is absent to download the necessary software for creating bootable media. However, there’s a silver lining – PowerShell. Bundled with the most recent iterations of Windows, PowerShell is a powerful tool that…



Block Google Chrome Execution in Your Organization using Windows Registry key

Does your organization need to block the execution of Google Chrome? Perhaps for security reasons, compliance with internal policies, or to promote productivity? This guide provides a simple and efficient method to disallow the running of Google Chrome on Windows machines, using PowerShell. Our approach is robust and doesn’t rely on the path, hash, or…



How to access an Exchange Online mailbox without a license

An Office 365 or Microsoft 365 Admin will hopefully have a separate admin account to perform higher level (privileged) tasks, compared the their standard user account. As a result, admin accounts should not need any license, because they are not used as a normal user. A person should not need to have two sets of…



How to Monitor specific TCP-Port on using PowerShell and Test-NetConnection

Are you in need of a simple and efficient solution to monitor a specific TCP port? Look no further! In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to use PowerShell and the Test-NetConnection cmdlet to check if a specific TCP port is open every 3 seconds. This method will help you keep an eye…



How to view the SQL Generated by Entity Framework

How to view the SQL Generated by Entity Framework Entity Framework follows the following three steps. Translate C# code into SQL statements Execute SQL on a target database Return values back to C# objects. Now the question is how the generated SQL statements look like and how we can view the SQL executed on the…