What happens when you run a PowerShell Command? How does it work? There is a small but very informational Cmdlet, which helps you to look behind the scenes. The command is called […]
PowerShell: Looking behind the Scenes (Trace-Command)
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Check Version of PowerShell (localhost and remote hosts)
In this blog post I show how to find out the Version of PowerShell on the localhost and on remote computers.
Copy-Item and Remove-Item: Automate copying and deleting operations
It can happen that files have to be deleted regularly or copied somewhere else. This is no problem in itself, as long as you know a little about scripting. But many people […]
PowerShell: Encrypt and store your Passwords and use them for Remote Authentication (Protect-CmsMessage)
When it comes to certificates, many people flee. The topic is not very popular, but everything is not as bad as feared. In this article I will show you how to store […]
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