This post is one in a series about setting up a Microsoft Certificate Authority. It’s broken down into the following parts. Part 1 – Standing up your Root CA Part 2 – Standing up your Subordinate/Issuing CA (You are Here) Part 3 – Catch up on what we’ve done and how it works (Coming Soon) …
Standing up a Microsoft Certificate Authority – Part 1
In this post I’m going to walk through the steps necessary to standup a pretty basic Certificate Authority (CA) within your on-premise Active Directory environment. This is an introduction to CA only, and I’ll admit that all of my knowledge is from working with consultants to stand environments up and from reading Microsoft’s documentation. Make …
Error “The specified server cannot perform the requested operation” when using Export-CMApplication
Quick post today because I couldn’t find this error anywhere online. I’m running Configuration Manager 2002 and was exporting an application and was getting this error thrown in Powershell:
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After some digging around, I realized it was an older application with a source path that was moved on the SAN, but not ever updated …
Script to Find Attached USB Mass Storage Devices
I wrote the following script to find and list attached USB Mass Storage Devices and determine the disks and partitions associated with them.
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$usbKeysAttached = Get-PnpDevice -Class USB -Status OK -FriendlyName "USB Mass Storage Device" $aAttachedDisks = @() ForEach($key in $usbKeysAttached) { $pnpProperties = $key | Get-PnpDeviceProperty $pnpBusRelations = ($pnpProperties.Where({$_.KeyName -eq "DEVPKEY_Device_BusRelations"})).Data | Select -First 1 $usbDisk = Get-Disk -UniqueId "$pnpBusRelations`:$env:COMPUTERNAME" $usbPartitions = Get-Partition -DiskId $usbDisk.Path If(-not($usbPartitions)) { # There are no partitions, just show the disk info. $oData = New-Object PSObject Add-Member -InputObject $oData -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DiskName" -Value $usbDisk.FriendlyName Add-Member -InputObject $oData -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DiskSize" -Value $usbDisk.Size Add-Member -InputObject $oData -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "PnPInstanceId" -Value $key.InstanceId $aAttachedDisks += $oData } else { ForEach($partition in $usbPartitions) { $oData = New-Object PSObject Add-Member -InputObject $oData -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DiskName" -Value $usbDisk.FriendlyName Add-Member -InputObject $oData -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DiskSize" -Value $usbDisk.Size Add-Member -InputObject $oData -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "PnPInstanceId" -Value $key.InstanceId Add-Member -InputObject $oData -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DriveLetter" -Value $partition.DriveLetter Add-Member -InputObject $oData -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DriveSize" -Value $partition.Size $aAttachedDisks += $oData } } } ForEach($drive in $aAttachedDisks) { If($drive.DriveSize -ge 1TB) { $drive.DriveSize = "$([Math]::Round($drive.DriveSize/1TB,2)) TB" } elseif ($drive.DriveSize -gt 1GB) { $drive.DriveSize = "$([Math]::Round($drive.DriveSize/1GB,2)) GB" } elseif ($drive.DriveSize -gt 1MB) { $drive.DriveSize = "$([Math]::Round($drive.DriveSize/1MB,2)) MB" } else { $drive.DriveSize = "$([Math]::Round($drive.DriveSize/1MB,2)) B" } If($drive.DiskSize -ge 1TB) { $drive.DiskSize = "$([Math]::Round($drive.DiskSize/1TB,2)) TB" } elseif ($drive.DiskSize -gt 1GB) { $drive.DiskSize = "$([Math]::Round($drive.DiskSize/1GB,2)) GB" } elseif ($drive.DiskSize -gt 1MB) { $drive.DiskSize = "$([Math]::Round($drive.DiskSize/1MB,2)) MB" } else { $drive.DiskSize = "$([Math]::Round($drive.DiskSize/1MB,2)) B" } If($drive.DriveLetter.length -eq 1) { $drive.DriveLetter = "$($drive.DriveLetter):" } } Clear-Host $aAttachedDisks | Sort DriveLetter | FT PnpInstanceId,DiskName,DiskSize,DriveLetter,DriveSize |