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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 snippets, or one-liners, and adapting...

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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 good idea. It is better...

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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 programming. PowerShell tackles this paradox...

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PowerShell Data Basics: XML

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

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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 help out with this, Michael...

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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 that are now provided with...

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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 site. Know how to prepare...

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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 with Windows 7, or almost...

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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 complete indexed API in HTML...

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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 primary site to a replica...

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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 group of computers based on...

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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 setup and management of User...

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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 a number of alternative ways...

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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 be extended with whatever PowerShell...

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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 configured according to the business...

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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 appropriate when configuring the virtual...

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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 will exploit the best advantages...

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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 whole group of servers. Sean...

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Migrate to Office 365

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

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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 via a Web-based distribution point....

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