Is Ping a reliable way to check if a computer is available? Opinions differ … This blog post is all about ping and arp. Of course with PowerShell. The upcoming script could […]
As the headline says, there are new features available in December update of Honolulu. Honolulu is a web-based management tool which enables you to administer your infrastructure in a very comfortably way.
Sometimes strange things happen: A computer can communicate with another computers, although this should not be possible due to IP addressing and the routing table. Proxy ARP comes into play …
Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) is a platform that enables you to protect your infrastructure from cyber attacks. ATA is using a parsing engine to capture network traffic of protocols such as […]
Will you be notified when there are changes to group memberships? No? Memberships in groups are particularly interesting. Especially if it is the group of the domain administrators. The following article shows […]
In most cases a blue screen is caused by hardware or driver failure. In this article I show how to find out the cause of the blue screen by using the tool […]
Administering your Azure VM on your Samsung Galaxy or iPhone? Introduced with Windows Server 2012, PowerShell Web Access is a new Windows Server feature which enables you to administer your Windows Server […]
I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. What schould I do with my new Azure computer? Surely I’ll come up with something over time. But for now I still don’t […]
Azure can be tried out for free for a short period. For me it’s the first time I’m playing with Microsoft Azure. Last week I used my subscription to create my first […]
What if a domain controller fails? Operations Masters have special tasks which must be performed by Domain Controllers in an Active Directory domain. If a Domain Controller fails, this special role must […]
There is more than enough monitoring software around. Most of them are really helpful and superbly done. For those who don’t have such software at hand, there are only 2 options: to do […]
Es war ein Donnerstag, 06:15. Du sitzt gemütlich mit einem Kaffee auf deiner Couch und siehst die Neuigkeiten der Nacht durch. Schon halb am Weg ins Bad liest du die Vorschau einer […]
Long time ago I’ve created a small function that acts like a port scanner. It’s not a replacement for enterprise scanners such as nmap, but it’s quite useful for quick tests when […]
To download files from the Internet you can use the graphical interface or a command from the PowerShell module BitsTransfer. In this blog post, I show how to download files with Windows […]
Easy as can be. It’s not a rocket science to create your first PowerShell command in and save it as a module. Maybe your colleagues will get big eyes when you present […]
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