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Adam Bertram wrote a new post 4 years, 1 month agoCreate a certificate-signed RDP shortcut via Group Policy
Identity and Access Management (IAM) in AWS enables managing users, groups, and their permissions. With IAM, we can create users, remove them, and assign permissions to different services. By using the AWSPowerShell.NetCore module, we are able to perform these tasks from the command line. With reusable code, the administrator can automate and perform these tasks faster.
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Monitor web server uptime with a PowerShell script 4 years, 1 month agoThere are many different tools to monitor whether a web server is running or not. However, if you and/or your team know PowerShell and, perhaps, already have some PowerShell scripts to manage web services, using PowerShell to monitor uptime may be a good option.
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How to build a PowerShell inventory script for Windows Servers 4 years, 1 month agoWith the help of a little PowerShell script, you can easily create an inventory of your Windows machines. In this post I demonstrate how you can remotely retrieve available memory, disk space, and computer names of all the Windows servers in your network.
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Working with Windows Performance Counters in PowerShell 4 years, 2 months agoPerformance counters are a useful way to track server performance metrics and monitor resource usage. Back in the day, I used to use the perfmon* utility. This allowed me to tap into the performance counters in Windows and display all kinds of metrics and data. Nowadays, though, I turn to PowerShell.
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Updated some terminology, fixed an error in the script and inserted a note about removing diff disks with running VMs.
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Cleaning up lingering Hyper-V VHD snapshots 4 years, 2 months agoSnapshots or checkpoints in Hyper-V allow you to create point-in-time instances of where your virtual machine (VM) was including memory. Snapshots are great for quickly reverting changes to multiple points in time but, if not managed properly, can soon turn into a headache.
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Manage Active Directory user SPNs with PowerShell 4 years, 2 months agoService principal names (SPNs) are attached to user and computer Active Directory (AD) objects; you can add, remove, or modify them at will. One way to manage SPNs is to use the ActiveDirectory PowerShell module. This module contains the Get-Ad* and Set-Ad* cmdlets capable of reading and writing SPNs on user and computer objects.
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Adam Bertram wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
Install and use tcpdump for network analysis
What can you do when your virtual machine (VM) is unresponsive? Sometimes, one of your VMs stops responding, and no matter what you do, you just cannot access or restart it to fix the problem.
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Free network performance monitoring with iPerf and PowerShell 4 years, 3 months agoLearn how to extend the functionality of the popular network performance measurement and tuning tool iPerf with the help of PowerShell.
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Use PowerShell to test if a Windows server is pending a reboot 4 years, 3 months agoUse PowerShell to test if a Windows server is pending a reboot
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Adam Bertram wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
Create and restore Azure virtual machine snapshots
MaxPowerSoft Active Directory Reports Professional provides auditing and reporting help in your Active Directory environment.
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Installing service packs on a SQL cluster with PowerShell 4 years, 3 months agoIn this post, you will learn how to automate installing SQL server service packs on a SQL cluster with the help of PowerShell.
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Adam Bertram wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Scan for Windows updates on Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Systems Manager
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based client management solution that manages PCs and mobile devices. This article shows you how to register the tool for a free 30-day trial and set up users via the Office portal. Device management then takes place through the Azure portal.
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Adam Bertram wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Activate an offline Windows Server using the Windows Product Activation Center
The last time I looked at Veeam Free Edition, several key features you might expect from a backup program were missing, like incremental backups and scheduling. I accepted this though, since the product was free. This has all changed with the new Community Edition, which has full feature parity with Veeam Backup & Replication (B&R) Standard.
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Out of disk space? Enable circular logging in Exchange Server 2016 4 years, 4 months agoAre you running out of disk space on your Microsoft Exchange Server? If so, enabling circular logging may be the answer.
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Adam Bertram wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Activate a VM using Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)
Windows 10 1903, also known as the May update, introduces some substantial improvements. These include new functions as well as changes to the service model and best practices. In addition, they’ve made some improvements to the user interface.
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Adam Bertram wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Create and deploy a CloudFormation template to AWS
For testing Hyper-V, it sometimes helpful if you can run a Hyper-VM inside another Hyper-VM. In this post, you will learn how to set up nested Hyper-V virtualization.
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Adam Bertram wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Configure DHCP scopes in Windows Server
The primary goal of the ESXi hypervisor is to distribute physical resources to virtual machines (VMs) while ensuring fairness of consumption. Shares, reservations, and limits settings allow you to prioritize VMs that are more important when resources are under contention.
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Build an Active Directory user activity report with PowerShell 4 years, 4 months agoSorry about the code error. I've got it updated.
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Build an Active Directory user activity report with PowerShell 4 years, 4 months agoMonitoring Active Directory users is an essential task for system administrators and IT security. In many organizations, Active Directory is the only way you can authenticate and gain authorization to access resources. Some resources are not so, yet some are highly sensitive. Using PowerShell, we can build a report that allows us to monitor Active Directory activity across our environment.
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