Retired employees are usually reported to the IT department, but for whatever reason this is not always the case. As an Office 365 administrator, you might want to know which user haven’t […]
Office 365 | Exchange Online: List inactive Mailboxes
PowerShell: Changing Files and Folders Creation Time
Working with PowerShell is usually a serious and demanding job. PowerShell is powerful, you can destroy your system by running the wrong commands. However, in this blog post we take a look […]
Neue PowerShell Kurse in Wien in Kooperation mit ITLS
Liebe Follower! Ab Oktober 2019 kooperiert die PowerShell User Group Austria mit ITLS in Wien und bietet pro Quartal drei PowerShell Kurse an. Infos gibt es hier: https://www.itls.at/powershell Steigen Sie mit dem […]
PowerShell Data Types Cheat Sheet: String, Char, DateTime, Bool, Array, Hashtable, PSObject, Void, Math, TimeSpan
This blog posts is all about PowerShell data types. What is a PowerShell data type? Data Types define what you can do with a PowerShell object. For example, a datetime object supports […]
PowerShell: Implementing a Progress Bar with Write-Progress
Have you always wanted to make your script more professional? A progress bar adds professionalism to your work. And it gives the user information how long your script will run and what […]
Active Directory: Changing Default Password and Lockout Policies
Default Domain Policy password policies determine the complexity and minimum length of Active Directory domain passwords. Because the preconfigured default settings are suboptimal, many administrators decide to change the default policy settings. […]
PowerShell: Get Last Domain Logon with Get-ADUserLastLogon
The function covered in this blog post is part of my Active Directory Domain Services Section tool, which has been published in 2018. After some time, I decided to create an explicit […]
PowerShell: Retrieve List of Domain-Computers by Operating System
As an administrator, you should have an overview of your Active Directory environment. Of course, this also includes user and computer accounts . In this blog post I will carry out some […]
PowerShell: Determining Operating System with $IsWindows, $IsLinux and $IsMacOs
Recently, I discovered three PowerShell Core variables that could be very helpful when it comes to determining the operating system in PowerShell. PowerShell has become a cross-platfrom tool and can be installed […]
Office 365 Exchange Online PowerShell: Quick connect with Connect-ExchangeOnline
More and more companies are migrating to Office 365. This applies above all to small and medium-sized enterprises. This trend can hardly be stopped. So I decided to focus more on this […]
Auszeichung zum Microsoft MVP 2019-2020
Liebe Leser und Follower! Ich wurde heute erneut zum Microsoft MVP für die Kategorie Cloud & Datacentermanamgent in der Unterkategorie PowerShell ausgezeichnet. Letztes Jahr war mein erstes Jahr als MVP und es […]
Top 10 built-in MMC Consoles (msc) and Control Panel files (cpl) in Windows 10 and Windows Server
I am used to working with built-in MMC consoles and control panel files. I know most of them by heart. I always tell my students to remember the most common ones in […]
Microsoft Azure: How to exclude VMs from the Auto Start-Stop schedule with PowerShell
Last weekend I successfully created an automation account in Azure to auto start-stop my Azure VMs as described here: Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution in Azure Automation. Right after that I realized […]
My name is Patrick Gruenauer. Microsoft MVP on PowerShell. Have fun reading.
