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Lately, I’ve been working at converting a lot of my server configuration scripts into DSC configurations. After all, what better way to learn than by updating your existing methods? I recently ran into an issue, however, while converting my SCCM Distribution Point deployment script into a …
Hey now! The PowerShell team published a preview version of PackageManagement for Windows PowerShell v3 and v4. As it happens, I have a Windows 7 SP1 box running PowerShell v3–why not run a little experiment? `$PSVersionTable.PSVersion Major Minor Build Revision 3 0 -1 -1 `## Preparing the …
Name changes are a common occurrence in the world of IT and usually the primary concern is the e-mail address. Exchange e-mail address policies will handle this for us but often times the Sip Address and User Principal Name are left behind. I tackle these changes with an automated way of changing …
I am back this week with a quick write up on how to export your network subnets from Active Directory Sites and Services. Active Directory Sites and Services subnet assignments are important for healthy replication and for location based services to function properly. The need for this information …
Hey there! I thought we could test PowerShell Direct together today. Here’s the elevator pitch: In Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, we can send PowerShell commands from the Hyper-V host directly to its corresponding virtual machines (VMs), even in the absence of guest VM networking. Yeah, …
Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, October 13th at 8:30pm Central Time when Timothy Warner will present “Pattern Match Like a Pro: Using Regular Expressions with Windows PowerShell”. Many Windows systems administrators are intimidated with regular expressions due to its …
Have you ever wondered what LDAP queries were hitting your domain controllers? Even outside of fun investigations, it can be insightful to get a sampling of queries hitting your domain controller. The more services you have integrated with Active Directory, the more likely a vendor or sysadmin …
Our October 2015 puzzle might take us beyond the realm of one-liners, but it circles back to the August 2015 theme of retrieving information from the web. This is another scenario that actually has a lot of real-world applications, in that there’s a lot of practical uses in the work …
Well this is week number two in my quest to post an article once a week and I am back with a common request for Exchange administrators. There are a lot of scenarios that bring up a need to remove an e-mail or e-mails from all mailboxes in your environment. Perhaps there was a disgruntled employee, …
Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 is a very popular method to create VHD’s with. However it’s not a module, and in it’s current form cant be added to one. So I have started a new project on GitHub called WindowsImageTools and posted the results to the PowerShell Gallery. It has a few …
