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We were trying to diagnose a problem with Windows Updates today using Get-WindowsUpdateLog on Windows Server 2019. We kept getting blocked by ASR rule C0033C00-D16D-4114-A5A0-DC9B3A7D2CEB (Block use of copied or impersonated system tools) which kept tripping on the script’s use of tracerpt.exe which is supposed to be located in C:\Windows\System32. We kept getting this: Looking … Read more
Updated 2026-01-18 With the upcoming deprecation of the TrueNAS REST API in TrueNAS 26.04 I’ve released a v1.1 which includes a second script called “Get-TrueNAS-Backup-WS.ps1“. This second script works with the new WebSocket API introduced in TrueNAS 25.04. Original post (2025-05-06) below: I recently moved to TrueNAS in my Homelab and was a bit frustrated … Read more
Surprisingly Microsoft does not appear to alert when you are running low or out if licenses in M365. At least, not as far as I can tell. There is also no historical data in M365 around license usage which could be very useful in budget planning and forecasting. I dug through PRTGs built-in sensors and … Read more
Update 2026-06-28 Thanks to reader Panos, the 2022-2025 script should now be fixed. There was an error with the regex in the script which has been corrected in the repo. Update 2026-05-19 I have one confirmation the 2022-2025 script works. The author said they had to tweak the regex in the script but didn’t provide … Read more
Update 2021-12-18 – This looks like a much more competent script for detecting this vulnerability and there is a python version for Linux: https://github.com/CERTCC/CVE-2021-44228_scanner Updated 2021-12-17 – Script is v1.4 and looks for .war files now too Original post below Inspired by the one-liner here: https://gist.github.com/Neo23x0/e4c8b03ff8cdf1fa63b7d15db6e3860b#find-vulnerable-software-windows I wrote a script to expand on the command, … Read more