Maybe you already had the following problem: You’re using roaming profiles. You are the administrator of the domain. You can’t access the roaming profiles folder. You have to take ownership of each […]
Dear followers! The PowerShell Conference Book is now listed in the Amazon book store. As mentioned earlier, I’ve contributed the chapter “PowerShell as an Enterprise Network tool”. It was a great and […]
Let’s say you want to get an overview of the uptime of all Windows servers in your domain. This is a very important information and you should have a look at the […]
You are using Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 or higher? Want to check the status of Windows Defender Anti-Malware from all computers? Then you’ve come to the right place. I’ll give you […]
Scheduled jobs do something. They do something at a predefined time or when an event occurs. You can create PowerShell scheduled jobs easily and quickly. PowerShell scheduled jobs are background jobs and […]
Consider the following scenario: There’s a switched on client computer in a branch office and you want to connect to that computer via remote desktop. Remote desktop is disabled by default on […]
Windows Remote Management is a powerful feature to administer your Windows systems remotely. WinRM is enabled by default on all Windows Server operating systems (since Windows Server 2012 and above), but disabled […]
Many organizations are using standard user names for their employees. The reasons are manifold. For example, a school or a university with a high fluctuation can benefit from usernames student1 to student1000. […]
An expired certificate is a nuisance. In the case of web servers, this is indicated by the display of an untrusted connection when a user tries to open the web page. We […]
I really like PowerShell Web Access. Access PowerShell from any device. But what gets on my nerves is entering the server name again and again. If you only have one server, it is […]
Without any doubt, you should have an eye on the disk space of your servers. I’ve seen so many servers crashing due to dropping disk space over time, because of saving more […]
This article will show you how to use a graphical menu to discover and administer your Active Directory Environment. It is a graphical menu I created for the administration of Active Directory […]
Some time ago one of my LinekIn contacts and group member of my LinkedIn Group PowerShell Engineers posted a One-Liner that gets the serial number of the local computer. Thank you for […]
My name is Patrick Gruenauer. Microsoft MVP. On sid-500.com I write about Windows, PowerShell, Cisco and Cybersecurity in English and German. Have fun reading!
