What are you adding to custom tools?
What is everyone adding to their custom tools? I attached a screenshot of mine tools list and would like to know what you all are adding to perform tasks faster.
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Here are mine. How often do you use the Delete AD Account tool? Do you use that to delete the selected computer account?
yes I use the AD Account delete a few times a month, I find it much faster to locate and delete the account through PDQ Inventory because its limited just to my sites, and does not include the 300+ other locations throughout the school district. I just made a Script that accepts the computer name passed to it and then it removes that account.
I thought I would also show how I am calling a few of my Custom Tools.
Dameware
Active Directory Users and Computers (Must have AD tools on console computer)
Restart Remote DNS Client (calls psservice.exe from Sysinternals)
Yeah I did similar with DameWare and use Ctrl + D. I use this one countless times throughout the day.
I've created 2 custom tools, would love to see what other people have made. Mine are below.
1. GPUpdate
Uses PsExec to remotely force a Group Policy update on the target computer.
%windir%\pstools\psexec.exe \\%TARGET% -i gpupdate
2. Rename Computer
Uses a quick PowerShell script i made that walks you through renaming a computer remotely. You may need some Group Policies set in order to use PS remotely.
powershell Invoke-Command %TARGET% -File "\\Server\Folder\RenameComputer.ps1"
Yes, I also have a Rename Computer custom tool that executes via Batch script instead of PowerShell that prompts for the new computer name and then renames the remote computer on a domain.
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