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. […]
PowerShell: Alert me when Certificates expires soon
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 😉
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.
PowerShell: Get all logged on Users per Computer/OU/Domain (Get-UserLogon)
Recently I was asked how to show all logged on users. So I had the idea to make a function out of it. And now I’ll share this function to the community. Who […]
PowerShell Function: Get-ADGroupMembershipperDepartment
In grown environments it often comes to a complete confusion. Employees in departments are group members in groups in which they should not be member of. If there is a clean and […]
PowerShell: Collect information about installed Updates (Hotfixes) on all Domain Computers
With WSUS you are able to document the updates status of your computers. But what to do if there is no WSUS available? In this article I describe how to get a […]



