This is my first blog review in English. A few parts have already been created – in German. I started in January 2017 with no idea how to setup a Web Page, no idea […]
The Internet has not waited for me (Part 7): A Review of the Year 2017
PowerShell for Beginners (Part 2): The Philosophy Verb-Noun
Now, after the first part PowerShell for Beginners (Part 1): The Console and the First Command, we’ll dedicate ourselves to the commands. But before we begin the answer of the first exercise. […]
PowerShell for Beginners (Part 1): The Console and the First Command
Some time ago I dug deep inside myself and thought about which area is my strongest. I came to the conclusion that explaining complex things in a very simple way is one […]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2018!
Thank you for following and supporting me and all the best for 2018! Patrick Gruenauer
Why PowerShell is so important for your future …
People always ask me why I concentrate so much on PowerShell. It would work without it. The graphical user interface is excellent and the options in cmd are fantastic. Well, the answer […]
PowerShell: Playing with text or how to get every x line from text output (trim,replace,split)
I’ve always struggled with text. Now I really hate text. I love objects. But sometimes you can’t avoid these non-object-oriented characters coming from somewhere else. This blog post is about text and […]
Get-SystemInfo: Listing System Configuration of all Computers (systeminfo)
In one of my previous blog posts PowerShell: Documenting your environment by running systeminfo on all Domain-Computers I have described how to list important system information of all Domain Computers by running systeminfo. […]
Test-FirewallAllServer: Query the Firewall status on all Windows Servers
I’ve experienced that many people deliberately disable the Windows firewall. They don’t want to get annoyed with it, if something don’t work as expected. But there’s nothing to worry about, because it […]
PowerShell: Configuring Windows Firewall
Firewalls control traffic. They use technology such as Stateful Inspection to establish a connection to other networks. In this article I describe how to configure the host-based Windows Firewall by using Windows […]
Find out whether a host is really down with Test-ConnectionLocalSubnet (ping,arp)
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 […]
Project Honolulu: 1711 brings in Remote Desktop and PowerShell Remote Management
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.
What is Proxy ARP?
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 …
Cyber Security: Installing Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) version 1.8
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 […]
PowerShell: Notify me when someone is added to the Administrator Group
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 […]
Windows Bluescreen: How to check the memory dump file with WinDbg
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 […]
My name is Patrick Gruenauer. From Austria.
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