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 – […]
The new Windows Admin Center (former Project Honolulu)
PowerShell for Beginners (Part 12): PowerShell Modules
Last time we played with PowerShell Drives. In this part we dedicate ourselves to the structure of PowerShell, especially the PowerShell Module structure. But first, let’s look at the exercise from the […]
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 […]
Microsoft Azure: Managing your Azure Ressources with your Smartphone App (iPhone/Android)
It’s inexplicable to me, but my students have always been the most attentive to remoting. I don’t mean the traditional remote connections from computer to computer with remote desktop or the other […]
PowerShell: Fehlermeldungen mit SilentlyContinue unterdrücken
Manchmal möchte man gar nicht wissen, wenn es etwas nicht funktioniert. Man möchte es auch nicht sehen. Wenn dieser Zustand eintritt, dann hilft der Parameter SilentlyContinue. Es wird dadurch ruhiger und doch […]
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 😉
Do-Speak: Start talking with Remote Computers (System.Speech)
In this article I’ll show you how to use a very simple command that works for the local computer and remote computers and lets your computers speak.
PowerShell: Retrieve and store hardware information of domain computers
WMI is a powerful feature. In this article, I will retrieve the memory (RAM) of all domain computers and store the output in a file.
My name is Patrick Gruenauer. Microsoft MVP on PowerShell. Have fun reading.
