Michael Sorens 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
Joseph Moody Managing Printers with Group Policy, PowerShell, and Print Management Just because it is possible to do many configuration jobs 'click by bleeding click', doesn't mean that it is a... 24 April 2014 10 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
Nirmal Sharma A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part II A Hyper-V replica installation provides rapid disaster-recovery by asynchronously replicating a VM running at a primary site to a replica... 12 September 2013 14 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
Nirmal Sharma A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part I A Hyper-V replica installation provides a great opportunity for providing rapid disaster-recovery by asynchronously replicating a VM running at a... 10 June 2013 34 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
Nirmal Sharma Hyper-V Migration Technologies Hyper-V has become far more sophisticated since the release V3 of Windows 2012, but it means that there are now... 21 March 2013 29 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
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part III A configuration of Hyper-V networking across two or more Hyper-V Hosts is the most complex type. It needs to be... 14 February 2013 17 min read
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 2 Hyper-V Networking can be configured to meet a wide range of requirements, but it isn't always obvious which choices are... 10 January 2013 16 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
