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 […]
PowerShell: Alert me when Certificates expires soon
PowerShell Web Access: Specifying a Default Computer (Server) Name
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 […]
PowerShell: Alert me when Disk Space is running low on my Windows Servers (E-Mail Notification)
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 […]
Active Directory Domain Services Section (Version 1.1)
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 […]
Get serial numbers of all Domain Computers with PowerShell
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 […]
PowerShell Function: Testing the Default Gateway with Test-Gateway
Sometimes it could happen that your computer lost connection to other hosts or the internet. What is the first you should do? For example, you could try to reach other hosts or […]
Active Directory: Configuring Event Log Subscriptions (Forwarding)
Event Viewer enables you to view events and logs on your computer. And troubleshooting an issue might require to view log files from other remote computers. Event Log Subscriptions comes into play […]
The new Windows Admin Center (former Project Honolulu)
Microsoft announces the new “Honolulu” and renamed it to Windows Admin Center. In this blog post I am going to give you a short review of the new tool which will – […]
PowerShell: Installing Server Roles and Features on multiple Remote Servers
Install-WindowsFeature is a powerful cmdlet that enables you to install Roles and Features on Windows Server Operating Systems. In this article I am going to describe how to install Windows Server Backup […]
PowerShell: How to get a list of all installed Software on Remote Computers
WMI is a powerful feature. Remember that WMI is CMI and CMI is WMI. In this blog post I am going to play with WMI Objects on the local computer and on […]
Active Directory Domain Services Section (Part 2) – Start it from your Client Computer (without RSAT)
I’m happy many of you liked my little, humble script that enables you to play around in Active Directory. Well, this blog post will be a short one, because all I wanna […]
AD Overview Graphical Tool: Active Directory Domain Services Section
I hesitated for a long time. It’s done, it’s not done… should I add more menus… But at some point it’s over. It has to be published. The following article describes the […]
Active Directory: Ändern des Anzeigenamens von Benutzern auf “Nachname Vorname” (Display Name, Name)
Es hat seinen Grund warum manche meiner Beiträge dann doch noch auf Deutsch veröffentlicht werden. Active Directory Benutzerobjekte haben Attribute. Und diese Attribute haben Voreinstellungen wie z.B. den Anzeigenamen und den Full […]
Hyper-V: Backup VMs to a shared folder with Windows Server Backup and a Scheduled Task
Last week I had the task to backup Hyper-V VMs. No Replica, no Clustering, a simple backup with Windows Server Backup. The problem was that a repeating backup job had already been set […]
Test the reachability of all Domain-Controllers: Test-AllDomainController
As the headline says, with this small script you are able to test all your Domain-Controllers with a single command Test-AllDomainController. The simple things are the best, by all means 😉
My name is Patrick Gruenauer. From Austria.
