

Nov 04, 2020
Using PowerShell to find dead computers in Active Directory (AD)
Teaching a System Center Configuration Manager class a couple of weeks ago I was asked if there was a PowerShell command to find dead or stale computers in Active [...]


Oct 27, 2020
PowerShell Basics series - PowerShell Blog Index
For quite some time now I have been posting a number of blogs around the theme of “PowerShell Basics…” as I believe that it is now critical that any IT professional [...]


Sep 28, 2020
Using PowerShell to upload files to your Azure Storage Container
More and more people are starting to use Azure as a platform for their applications, these applications might want to get information from files. If this is a [...]


Feb 19, 2021
PowerShell Profiles – Have it Your Way
Did you know that PowerShell straight out of the box can have not 1 but 8 different profiles (at last count)! These profiles are a feature of the hosting applications – [...]


Oct 08, 2020
Deleting an undelete-able site collection
If you create site collections using a batch script, and if one of those was unreachable. As the site creation process may have failed thus any resources will not be [...]


Jul 17, 2020
Introducing PowerShell for Office 365!
As some of you may have already been aware, Microsoft has just released a website dedicated to PowerShell for Office 365. This website, is aimed at IT Administrators who [...]


May 22, 2021
New Hyper-V cmdlets in PowerShell 4.0
Whilst there have some great new features, updates and bug fixes in PowerShell 4.0, I think the new Hyper-V cmdlets added in PS 4.0 have been largely overlooked. [...]


Apr 27, 2021
Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows Server 2012
Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) were first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 (and Windows 7) and what a great leap forward for administrators they were – finally, we [...]


Sep 05, 2020
Passwords and alternative credentials in PowerShell
On a number of PowerShell courses, I have been asked by students what is an easy way to use or save alternative (usually Administrator) credentials when remoting into [...]


Jun 24, 2020
Manage your administration with ADAC and PowerShell
You may find that during your day to day administration, you will be creating, renaming, and moving objects from one Organisational Unit (OU) to another. Now, this [...]


Apr 22, 2021
PowerShell is for infrastructure types...right.
In today's post, I would like to have a little discussion about PowerShell. Now I can already hear a number of you saying "What are you doing talking about PowerShell? [...]


Apr 15, 2021
Designing Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging Integration with Lync Server 2013
In this blog post, I will cover the unified messaging (UM) integration between Lync Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2013. In Exchange Server 2013, the UM platform is [...]


Apr 10, 2021
Dual boot Windows 8.1 on Windows 7 using Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
Many IT guys and girls may know the way to dual boot Windows 8.1 on Windows 7 by creating a new partition, but that way has some disadvantages and is riskier than the [...]


Apr 08, 2021
Scripting in SQL Server 2014
Today, I'm going to go into a little more detail with a topic I've previously covered, that is, scripting. There have been a few blog posts about PowerShell and I very [...]


Feb 25, 2021
Get-Help – the PowerShell Way
Some of you may have noticed in a number of my previous blogs that I am a big fan of PowerShell and you are right. I have followed PowerShell from its early days of [...]


Jan 13, 2021
PowerShell's Remote Control in a Nutshell
Remote control of servers and workstations can be implemented in a number of ways. For example, administrators and help desk support personnel have been using Remote [...]


Dec 04, 2020
Quoting in PowerShell for newbies
Quoting in PowerShell and embedding strings of text or evaluating expressions and variables in cmdlets are one of the main things that tend to trip up most newbies. [...]