PowerShell One-Liners: Variables, Parameters, Properties, and Objects

PowerShell isn't a conventional language, though it draws inspiration widely. Many people learn it, and use it, best by collecting...

24 April 2014 18 min read

Michael Sorens

PowerShell One-Liners: Help, Syntax, Display and Files

PowerShell is designed to be used by busy IT professionals who want to get things done, and don't necessarily enjoy...

04 April 2014 16 min read

Michael Sorens

PowerShell Data Basics: XML

To master PowerShell, you must know how to use XML. XML is an essential data interchange format because it remains...

03 January 2014 13 min read

Michael Sorens

PowerShell Data Basics: File-Based Data

One of the frustrations of anyone beginning with PowerShell is the simple task of getting data in and out. To...

03 December 2013 25 min read

Joseph Moody

Managing Active Directory with PowerShell

For the busy administrator of a windows domain, any regular task or housekeeping process should be automated, and the Cmdlets...

11 November 2013 12 min read

Joseph Moody

Group Policy and WMI, A Wonderful Combination

If you're faced with having to deploy software to those PCs that are, say, from a particular manufacturer, are laptops...

25 July 2013 9 min read

Michael Sorens

How To Document Your PowerShell Library

PowerShell provides comment-based help for functions and scripts with Get-Help, but when you want to document modules or generate a...

25 June 2013 16 min read

Joseph Moody

More Advanced Deployments with Group Policy Software Installation

Group Policy Software Installation (GPSI) allows for a high level of control on what can be installed where on a...

09 May 2013 9 min read

Joseph Moody

Eliminating Viruses with UAC and AppLocker

It is important to prevent computer viruses from infecting a network within an organisation; Joseph Moody walks us through the...

23 April 2013 10 min read

Joseph Moody

Getting Better Mileage by Extending Active Directory Users and Computers

Active Directory has more uses than it is usually credited with. The 'Active Directory Users and Computers' console can even...

15 February 2013 8 min read

Buck Woody

Distributed Computing – Hybrid Systems Considerations

When the Cloud was new, it was often presented as an 'all or nothing' solution. Nowadays, the canny Systems Architect...

11 July 2012 16 min read

Sean Duffy

Building a Daily Systems Report Email With PowerShell

A combination of PowerShell and HTML can provide the basis of an easily-scanned report on the basic state of a...

16 March 2012 20 min read

Jaap Wesselius

Migrate to Office 365

If you are using Exchange Server 2003, it is worth considering a move to Office 365 instead of Exchange 2012....

08 March 2012 10 min read

Krishna Kumar

Creating and Configuring a Custom Offline Address book with Web-Based Distribution in Exchange 2010 Using PowerShell

The offline address-book (OAB) of Exchange is available when the user is not connected, Since Exchange 2007, it is updated...

04 March 2012 9 min read

Buck Woody

The ASs of Distributed Computing

What's The 'Cloud'? nothing more than one or more of three different types of distributed service, conceptually similar to any...

27 February 2012 16 min read

Wesley David

How to Kill a Company in One Step or Save it in Three

The majority of companies that suffer a major data loss subsequently go out of business. Wesley David remembers vividly the...

07 February 2012 14 min read

Johan Veldhuis

Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 4

Having migrated the rest of our users and legacy resources across and started getting ready to decommission OCS 2007 R2,...

06 February 2012 14 min read

Matt Simmons

Physical Network Layout for the Reluctant

How do you select the hardware for your network, and connect it all together? How do you then test your...

13 December 2011 50 min read

Antoine Khater

Extending Exchange 2010 Shadow Redundancy Cross Forest

When a customer asks for an Exchange Server feature that you have no idea how to implement, and you just...

01 December 2011 8 min read

Matt Simmons

Logical Network Layout for Small Networks

Matt examines what it's like to design a network from the ground up, as well as dealing with an existing...

28 November 2011 30 min read

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PowerShell One-Liners: Variables, Parameters, Properties, and Objects

PowerShell One-Liners: Help, Syntax, Display and Files

PowerShell Data Basics: XML

PowerShell Data Basics: File-Based Data

Managing Active Directory with PowerShell

Group Policy and WMI, A Wonderful Combination

How To Document Your PowerShell Library

More Advanced Deployments with Group Policy Software Installation

Eliminating Viruses with UAC and AppLocker

Getting Better Mileage by Extending Active Directory Users and Computers

Distributed Computing – Hybrid Systems Considerations

Building a Daily Systems Report Email With PowerShell

Migrate to Office 365

Creating and Configuring a Custom Offline Address book with Web-Based Distribution in Exchange 2010 Using PowerShell

The ASs of Distributed Computing

How to Kill a Company in One Step or Save it in Three

Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 4

Physical Network Layout for the Reluctant

Extending Exchange 2010 Shadow Redundancy Cross Forest

Logical Network Layout for Small Networks