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How to find different server types in Active Directory with PowerShell
Working as a freelancer is a great thing if you can handle it. Each day, each week something new happens and a new problem shows up on my d…
How to get Windows 10 Anniversary Update outside of Windows Update
If a staged rollout is delaying a Windows 10 feature update, you can still install it manually with Microsoft installation media or the Med…
How to permanently disable UAC in Windows Server
Learn how to permanently disable User Account Control in Windows Server by updating the required registry settings and rebooting safely.
Install Windows 10 Anniversary Update on Parallels Desktop for Mac
On August 2nd Microsoft released Windows 10 Anniversary update with all brand new features. As I’m running Mac with Mac OS…
Install-Module: The term Install-Module is not recognized as the name of cmdlet, function, script file or operable program
If Install-Module is not recognized at all, the usual cause is that the machine is missing the PowerShellGet tooling that newer Windows Pow…
Just different approach to Active Directory Password Notifications
A long time ago I’ve maintained a C# version of Password Expiry reminders. It was working based on HTML templates…
Manage NTFS permissions with Powershell
Manage NTFS permissions with PowerShell more safely by auditing ACLs, changing access, and avoiding risky GUI-only permission changes.
Meet Emailimo – New way to send pretty emails with PowerShell
Meet Emailimo, a PowerShell module for building readable HTML emails with tables, links, colors, and cleaner templating than hand-written m…
Microsoft discontinues Active Directory Replication Status Tool
The old AD Replication Status Tool was a convenient GUI for spotting replication problems, but modern AD troubleshooting should focus on su…
Microsoft Outlook – Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.
When working on Windows Server 2016 on RDS session one of the users reported he cannot start Outlook. He gets…
Microsoft Word – How to remove last section break
Working with Microsoft Word sections allows you to create different visual pages in your document without much effort. Adding different…
Monitoring Active Directory Changes on Users and Groups with PowerShell
Working as Administrator with Active Directory can be rewarding. You can easily deploy new settings, make changes to users even…
Monitoring User, Groups Changes in Active Directory – version 0.8
💡 Little introduction Event Monitoring solution written in PowerShell is an event library (Get-EventsLibrary.ps1) script that parses Secur…
Office for Mac 2016 activation problem
Downloading Office for Mac 2016 from Office 365 subscription seems an easy task. Unfortunately it doesn’t always go as planned….
OfficeIMO – Free cross-platform Microsoft Word .NET library
OfficeIMO is a free cross-platform .NET library for creating Word documents with Open XML SDK while hiding much of the low-level plumbing.
Out-HtmlView – HTML alternative to Out-GridView
One of the most comfortable output’s in PowerShell to work and analyze data is Out-GridView. It’s handy as you can search, sort and have th…
Powershell – Change DNS IP Addresses remotely
Use PowerShell to change DNS server addresses on remote Windows machines with a safer pattern that validates adapters and returns the final…
PowerShell – Environment Path is missing or overwritten
If PSModulePath is suddenly missing default module locations, PowerShell can stop discovering built-in or installed modules even though not…
PowerShell – Everything you wanted to know about Event Logs and then some
If you feel this title is very familiar to you it’s because I actually have stolen the title from Kevin Marquette. I’m in awe of his posts…
Prepare Windows 10 Start Menu for all computers in Active Directory
Prepare and standardize the Windows 10 Start Menu for Active Directory computers with a repeatable deployment approach and centralized cont…