With all the SSL vulnerabilities that have come out recently, we've decided to disable some of the older protocols at work so we don't have to worry about them. After getting our group policies setup the way we wanted, we needed a way to validate that the protocols we wanted to disable were actually disabled on our servers.

At work I had a problem that required me to decode a SID that was stored in a database in binary form in order to locate the user/group that it represented. It turns out this is fairly easy to do, but I couldn't find a Powershell solution online and the solutions in those "other" languages tended to be overly complicated.