powershell
2018
Using Powershell and WMI to get the MAC address of Remote workstation
·306 words·2 mins
system-administration
tech
gwmi
powershell
sysadmin
technology
wmi
It has cropped up from time to time that we need to retrieve information, in this example, the MAC address from remotely located workstations.
Forcing a firmware update on a Chromecast with Powershell
·236 words·2 mins
tech
chromecast
json
powershell
technology
You probably took one look at the title and thought “what in the blue hell is this person on about?
2017
Legacy BIOS and UEFI PXE coexistence
·701 words·4 mins
system-administration
tech
bios
dhcp
powershell
pxe
sccm
sysadmin
technology
uefi
windows-server-2012-r2
More and more enterprises are moving towards the modern UEFI devices in their fleet, whether that be desktops, laptops or convertibles.
How to restore a tree of objects from the Active Directory Recycle Bin
·710 words·4 mins
system-administration
tech
active-directory
powershell
sysadmin
technology
In a previous post I detailed how to setup the Active Directory Recycle Bin and restore single deleted objects back in your Active Directory.
Export users of one AD group and import to another
·196 words·1 min
system-administration
tech
active-directory
powershell
sysadmin
technology
windows
It’s quite common for members of one Active Directory security group to be replicate in another.
Testing your PowerShell code in different versions from the one workstation
·283 words·2 mins
system-administration
tech
powershell
sysadmin
technology
windows
I hit a brick wall today while smashing together various PowerShell code snippets for a script I am working on (that I’ll share later).
2014
Ping a set of hosts with Powershell
·368 words·2 mins
system-administration
tech
ping
powershell
sysadmin
technology
test-connection
windows
You may find yourself one day having to ping a set of machines on a regular basis.
2013
Switching between Windows Server 2012's interface levels
·622 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
minimum-server-interface
powershell
server-core
sysadmin
technology
windows-2012
One of the much touted features of Microsoft’s latest incarnation of the Windows Server release, Server 2012 is that administrators can freely switch between levels of interface available to the user.
Give a computer account Send-As permissions in Exchange Powershell
·189 words·1 min
system-administration
tech
exchange
exchange-2007
exchange-2010
powershell
sysadmin
technology
Take for instance the File Server Resource Manager that is a feature of the File Server role.
How to setup and restore a object from the Active Directory Recycle Bin
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system-administration
tech
active-directory
powershell
sysadmin
technology
CTRL+Z, the undo button, the recycle bin, shadow copies; The human element in the world of IT can some times be our undoing; This goes along way to explain the push to automate EVERY facet of the our IT systems.