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Analyze DHCP server with PowerShell
A DHCP server is a critical component of the IT infrastructure in most environments. In addition to monitoring, which ensures the basic availability of the service, you may also want to check the status of the IP scopes or leases. PowerShell provides several cmdlets for this purpose.
Virtual training in the age of COVID-19
In this article, I'll try to condense my experience over the last few years (and especially the last few months) in delivering IT training remotely—the good, the bad, and the downright ugly—into some tips and tricks. I'll also have some suggestions for learners on how to get the maximum...
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10: vSphere, Linux support, P2V, Wasabi
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10 was recently released. In this review of new features, we take a look at the new capabilities and functionality, including VMware vSphere 7 support, new web UI, enhanced physical-to-virtual (P2V) features, and Wasabi cloud storage.
VMware disk modes: Which one is best?
This post explains the difference between different VMware ESXi disk modes that your virtual machines (VM) can be configured with. Each of these modes may be useful in certain situations and architecture, depending on what you want to achieve. VMware disk modes are directly related to snapshot technology.
Azure Arc: Manage multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments
Do you work with multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments? Microsoft has introduced a new solution called Azure Arc to help consolidate control of all your resources. With Azure Arc, you can use Azure tooling to control and manage even on-premises and edge environments. Let's see how.
Synchronize password hashes using Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect)
If organizations do not want to transfer their password hashes to the cloud in a hybrid AD configuration, they can use ADFS for authentication. A compromise with less overhead would be to sync the passwords only of selected users with AAD Connect.
vSphere 7.0 – Upgrade virtual VM hardware and VMware Tools
This is the last phase of our upgrade process. In our last two articles, we successfully upgraded our vCenter Server from 6.7 to v7.0, and we then used vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade our ESXi cluster from ESXi 6.7 to v7.0. Today's post will discuss the upgrade of virtual...
SmartDeploy: Rethinking software deployment to remote workers in times of a pandemic
The next few months give you the unique chance to rework legacy processes and reimagine desktop management for remote works amid a pandemic. SmartDeploy can help you do that.
Automatic renewal of Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with Cloudflare using Ansible
Let's Encrypt offers a free, easy way to have SSL certificates that are generally secure and don't produce warnings in your browser. However, with certificates expiring every 90 days, manually updating them could become a tedious task, even more so if you have to deploy the same certificate on...
Automate Windows without network connectivity with Ansible
You may think that network connectivity is a prerequisite on a target Windows machine before you can perform automation. However, as we will see, you can automate Windows without network connectivity with Ansible using modules that allow interacting with your Windows machines in another way.
Pooling printers to load-balance print jobs
In environments where many documents, or long ones, are printed, you can avoid wait times by assigning several physical printers to a shared logical printer. The print server then automatically distributes the jobs to printers that are idle.
How to restore corrupted VMware VCSA 7.0 to a clean state
In our previous post, we discussed the supported ways of backing up VMware vCSA. Today, we'll look at the restore options.
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Administrators of Windows Server 2012 R2 might be facing a serious problem (not sure, how many will see this), which German blog reader Axel R. recently drew my attention to by mail. If updates are managed with WSUS, there are problems since July 1, 2020, because of deactivated TLS 1.0/1.1 support.0 -
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Analyze DHCP server with PowerShell 11 hours agoVery good article thanks.
Can I add that the command to to load PoSh DHCPServer module is :
Add-WindowsFeature -Name DHCP –IncludeManagementTools
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Thanks for your interesting article. In the last few months I have attended several online courses and webinars and I agree on interactivity and audience engagement. These concepts are a great way to make training interesting and keep the focus on the lesson, just like classroom training.
Another point is the impact of the lockdown on IT, it has certainly increased the demand for online training for many IT people and not oly. It has proven that it is easely possible to effectively distribute remotely knowledge to many IT people.
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Hi Allan,
Interesting observation, I think it depends on what's happening at the time. If I'm presenting and conveying theory information, yes I agree with you. But there are many times in modern learning when it's less about "the lecture" and more about facilitating exploration and learning by the students themselves. And certainly in this part of a learning experience (in a physical classroom) I do want the learners to interact amongst themselves, many times students have experience and skills to contribute to the overall learning and I'd like to replicate that experience in a virtual classroom.Hope that makes sense,
Paul
0Allan Weaver commented on Virtual training in the age of COVID-19 2 days, 4 hours ago
I can't think of anything more disruptive in a classroom than students chatting amongst themselves - especially privately.
I never was allowed to do that when I was being taught any subject, and while I never taught computer subjects officially, I did not allow it when I taught unofficially.
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PowerShell Forum 2 days, 20 hours agoExcellent help, Leos. You are a real Pro, it works like a charm. Great help. Thank you so much.
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Leos Marek replied to the topic Unable to export to a Excel file or CSV in
PowerShell Forum 3 days, 4 hours agooh and remove the -autosize parameter
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PowerShell Forum 3 days, 4 hours agoReplace Format-table with Select-object and you are all set.
any formatting using format commands is for display only.0 IQ started the topic Unable to export to a Excel file or CSV with the PowerShell cmdlet Export-Csv in
PowerShell Forum 3 days, 6 hours agoHow to export the output of the Get-ADUser cmdlet to an Excel file? Excel-CSV is not showing the output as expected. It's showing ASCII characters. On the other hand, if I use Out-File C:ADUsers.txt to generate a txt file it works fine. But I need to generate a CSV or an Excel file. How can I do this?
I am using Export-Csv -Path c:tempUserData.csv.
import-module activedirectory Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties * | sort-object -property SamAccountName | Format-Table -property ` @{Name="Logon Name";Expression={$_.SamAccountName}}, @{Name="First Name";Expression={$_.givenName}}, @{Name="Initials";Expression={$_.Initials}}, @{Name="Last Logon";Expression={$_.LastLogonDate}}` -AutoSize | Out-File C:ADUsers.txt1+Rahul commented on Remote Desktop can’t connect to the remote computer: Reasons and solutions 3 days, 8 hours ago
You can obtain a free hostname from a dynamic DNS service provider like Dynu and then use that hostname to access your PC in your home network using RDP. I have both RDP and VNC access to my machine at home so that in case RDP fails, I am able to access using VNC.
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