Null is null. Dividing by zero is not allowed, say the mathematicians. What about null in PowerShell? Is null equal empty? What is $null? Why a method IsNullOrEmpty? In this blog post […]
PowerShell: $null vs ::IsNullOrEmpty
PowerShell: Manipulating Strings with Trim, TrimStart and TrimEnd
In PowerShell it’s easy to manipulate strings, especially to cut off some characters from a string. These three methods are your friends when it comes to trimming: Trim, TrimStart and TrimEnd. In […]
MS Teams: Create Teams and add Members based on Group Membership
So, you are about to move to the cloud and now you want to create teams for your organization based on the group membership of your users. You also want to name […]
Configure Network Configuration (IP-Address, DNS, Default Gateway) with PowerShell
Today I would like to give a tutorial for a basic network configuration on Windows systems using PowerShell. We start with a fresh installation of a Windows operating system. Retrieve Network Adapter […]
How to create a NAT-Switch on Hyper-V with PowerShell
NAT is a technology to convert IP addresses. If you have a test environment then it might be necessary that your VMs need an internet connection and that you don’t want to […]
Neuer Udemy Kurs: Automatisierung mit PowerShell (1/2): Grundlagen
Liebe Follower! Hurra! Mein erster Udemy Kurs ist online. Kurssprache ist Deutsch. Der Kurs richtet sich an PowerShell Neulinge, oder auch an Personen die PowerShell von Grund auf Lernen möchten. Link: https://www.udemy.com/course/automatisierung-mit-powershell-1_3-grundlagen/?referralCode=C4E70BD40A116B304842 […]
Test-Environment: Building an Active Directory OU structure with Groups and Users with PowerShell Automation
You have just started learning something new and you are now about to bulid up a test environment with Windows Server ? For a good test environment, you will need a Domain-Controller […]
PowerShell: Install Software via Online Repository (Chocolatey)
Chocolatey is an Online Respository for popular software products. Online repositories provide a convenient way to install software, such as Adobe Reader, WinZip … It is also possible to install multiple software […]
Nächster Abendkurs (31.05.2021 – 23.06.2021 18:00 – 21:30) : Einführung in PowerShell via MS Teams (DE)
Liebe Follower! Der nächste PowerShell Kurs findet vom 31.05.2021 bis 23.06.2021 jeweils abends montags und mittwochs statt. Mehr Informationen finden Sie hier: PowerShell Training – Patrick Grünauer (sid-500.at) Ich freue mich auf […]
Enable Remote Desktop remotely with PowerShell (Enable-RemoteDesktop)
Forgot to enable remote desktop? This is bad. The only solution is to go back to the remote computer and then enable RD. Not really. In this blog post I will show […]
PowerShell: How to create Logging for your PowerShell Scripts
So you have already created your first PowrShell scripts? Now you want to enhance this scripts with error logging ? If your answer is yes, jump in this this article. I will […]
PowerShell Einsteiger Kurs (29.03. – 01.04 09:00 – 17:00 via MS Teams) mit Durchführungsgarantie | Trainer: Patrick Grünauer
Liebe Follower! Der nächste Powershell Kurs findet am 29.03. – 01.04. 2021 statt. Dieser Kurs hat Durchführungsgarantie und wird von mir persönlich durchgeführt. Sprache: Deutsch Hier ein Überblick der Agenda: Einführung in […]
Microsoft 365: Find Users Last Logon Time (Orphaned User Accounts)
You want to find out the last logon time of your Microsoft 365 user accounts? If so, the right way to do this is using PowerShell. In this blog post I will […]
PowerShell Cheat Sheet: Connect to Microsoft Cloud Services (Az, AzureAD, Exchange, MSTeams)
Recently, I’ve been working on a cheat sheet to collect all the commands needed to connect to Microsoft cloud services. Now I am happy to share this information here on my blog […]
PowerShell: Securing Passwords in Scripts by encrypting with the Security Identifier (SID)
Months before I wrote a post about passwords in scripts. In this post I solved the “problem” with encryption using certificates. This time I will show how to encrypt passwords in scripts […]
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