Sometimes it could happen that your computer lost connection to other hosts or the internet. What is the first you should do? For example, you could try to reach other hosts or […]
PowerShell Function: Testing the Default Gateway with Test-Gateway
PowerShell: Building Objects with Custom Properties with Select-Object
What if you are not satisfied with the default output of PowerShell? Well, there are many ways to come closer to the desired result. In this blog article I am going to […]
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: Looking behind the Scenes (Trace-Command)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 😉
