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Restore the Microsoft PowerShell plugin to its default configuration
Every once in a while I mess up my Windows installation… you know, things stop working and stuff giving errors all over the place. Due to some projects I’m working on the last few months the...
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How is my WinRM service configured?
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to troubleshoot the WinRM service, specifically the fact that you get a message from your monitoring system that the WinRM service isn’t...
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A PowerShell oneliner that exponentially consumes all memory
Why would you want to write a script that intentionally consumes memory exponentially? I find that for demo and test purposes this is very useful, especially when it comes to demonstrate Dynamic Memory...
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Remove the saved state of a VM with PowerShell
Just now I read a post from Ben Armstrong (MSFT) talking about starting a VM which has a missing virtual hard disk. In there, he writes about removing a saved state of a virtual machine and he...
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I’ll be hosting a Microsoft Netherlands Datacenter Virtualization IT Camp...
Back in October I attended an ITCamp from Microsoft Netherlands, hosted by Daniel van Soest and Tony Krijnen (both IT Pro Evangelists in The Netherlands). This IT Camp was designed by Tony and Daniel...
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MCWho + MCMe = MCT
Helping people to understeand stuff and explaining complex things in a simple manner is one of the things I love to do and I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember. So ever since I was still...
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WSUS – Windows Updates Workflow
The last few weeks I’ve been working at a customer for patch management for the Windows Operating System in their environment through WSUS. For this, I’ve created a simple workflow that would be...
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PowerShell meets WSUS
Some of my blog/Twitter/Facebook followers may know that I’m currently in a project implementing Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). So naturallyI thought about how I could use PowerShell with it...
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Book Review – Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches
The last two days I’ve spend my time in the train towards and from my customer reading the Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches book, written by PowerShell MVP Richard Siddaway....
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Carsten Rachfahl interviews Ben Armstrong about Hyper-V and PowerShell
As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of PowerShell… but at a strong second place comes Hyper-V. Combine those two and it’s just magic! As it seems, Ben Armstrong whom is a Product Manager for Hyper-V at...
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WSUS clients not showing up in management console
This is something I’ve been struggling with for some time now. I also saw some clients appearing and vanishing from the console at, what seemed, random times. I was experiencing that most WSUS clients...
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Find all Organizational Units with GPO Inheritance blocked
… of course you can do this by clicking all around, but I found that using PowerShell is a lot easier in a large environment: Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Filter * | Get-GPInheritance | Where-Object...
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PowerShell – Find the name and time of the last logged on user
This one goes on the category of crazy-oneliners. After I finished writing it I looked back and saw just how crazy huge it was… Nevertheless, I still like to share: Get-WmiObject -Class...
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PowerShell – Remove the WSUS client settings from the registry
Whenever you’ve configured WSUS client settings on a Windows device, you can only remove those settings by using Group Policy by setting them to ‘disabled’ or by removing the registry settings from the...
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Make a Service Pack permanent by removing the installation files
Note that this is not something I would recommend in a production environment! But, for example, in a demo environment this can be useful to save some disk space So, whenever you’ve installed a Service...
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I’ll be speaking at the E2EVC Copenhagen in June of 2013
Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference (E2E VC) is the only event I want to visit ever since the first time I went to it back when it was held in London. VMWare, Microsoft, Citrix, AppSense, RES,...
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I’ll be speaking at the Danish PowerShell User Group in May 2013
A few hours ago I’ve posted that I’ll be speaking at E2E VC in Copenhagen. Well, since I’m there I though about speaking at the local PowerShell User Group so I contacted Claus Nielsen to see if he...
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When is the next Patch Tuesday?
This is a question I’ve just received from one of my customers. So, you can calculate this by using PowerShell my using this script. For your convenience, these are the dates for each Patch Tuesday in...
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PowerShell – Is my NIC configured to register in DNS?
Some time ago I got asked how one could find if a network interface card (NIC) is configured to register itself in DNS. In the GUI it’s a checkbox, a little hidden and you have to click a bit to find...
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Enable and disable MSI logging through PowerShell
This morning I was contacted by an IT Pro asking me if I could write some PowerShell code to enable and disable MSI logging. He both wanted to use it from a command line and needed it to be part of a...
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