Month: July 2018

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The Practice of System and Network Administration (Third Edition) : Book Review

A few months ago, I read so many positive reviews on this book that I immediately purchased it.

I’ve always found it quite difficult to describe my job and role to other colleagues or friends and sometimes unsure that really understand it properly.
It’s such a broad set of roles and responsibilities that can be implicitly assigned or summarised into one depending on the company, by the size of the team and experience that I prefer to generalise as much as I can and be funny/ironic about it.

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PowerShell: Test-CurrentUserIsLocalAdmin

Is it very useful to run simple checks to validate the user environment, especially when checking if the context while user is working is aligned with out expectations or requirements. But is not always easy to get a simple information such as if the current user is a local admin or not.
It’s very easy to check it from the user interface, but I found that can be important to gather that information with powershell without running as an administrator.

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