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PowerShell – Manage printers

At work a colleague of mine was looking to modify printer permissions on a Server 2008 R2 terminal server using PowerShell. And to be honest, it was more difficult to do than I had expected. So...

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Home LAB Setup guide – 07 Make your lab available over the internet

In the first part of this LAB setup guide, I described the hardware selection process. In the second part, I described the hypervisor selection and installation. In the third part, I described VM guest...

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LazyWinAdmin – a great powershell script for more efficient Windows management

The last couple of months I’ve been playing around a lot with PowerShell and I’ve also been trying to make some nice GUI versions for my script using PowerShell Studio 2012 from Sapien Technologies...

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PowerShell – Using PowerShell 5 to automate the installation of your favorite...

In this blog post I will explain why to automate installations of Windows applications and how you can do this. Why automate the installation of applications? But first, why is this useful? Well this...

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PowerShell – Get photos / images / pictures matching meta data tags

I’ve created a script Get-PhotoByTag that: Gets the tags for all photos / pictures / images in a folder. Gathers their meta data including tags. Allows you to specify which tags need to be in the meta...

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Introduction to PowerShell – Also relevant for NON Microsoft administrators

Today I had the privilege that many colleagues of mine from Open Line decided to sacrifice their free time and attend my session: “Introduction to PowerShell – Also relevant for NON Microsoft...

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PowerShell – Book review of : PowerShell Deep Dives

I’ve had the book PowerShell Deep Dives laying around since August 2013. I had read some parts of it because I follow many of the great PowerShell community members that contributed to it. But I...

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PowerShell – Book review of : Windows PowerShell Best Practices

Last week I completed PowerShell Deep Dives which got me excited again to read more about PowerShell. As such, I continued reading the next book on my reading list: Windows PowerShell Best Practices...

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Free PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) training on February 25th...

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) is hosting 2 PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) training classes on February 25th and February 26th: Getting Started with PowerShell Desired State...

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Microsoft Ignite 2015 : huge collection of information enhanced with more...

As some of you might know already, the Microsoft Ignite 2015 conference has started where Microsoft talks about where they’re going and what they’re doing. I watched the keynote, took many notes and...

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PowerShell – Get-EnumValue function to get possible values of properties /...

In my previous blog post I blogged about how to get the possible values of an attribute or property like by example the service starttype using enumerators. For future use I’ve created this function...

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PowerShell – WMF5 (including PowerShell) 5 can be deployed using WSUS again,...

A couple of weeks ago I was thinking that I should blog that it’s a pity that Windows Management Framework (including PowerShell) could be not distributed through WSUS anymore. In the past it was...

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PowerShell – Getting started with Visual Studio Code and GitHub

In the past years I’ve been creating scripts and storing them on my personal OneDrive that is connected to multiple desktops and laptops I use. Additionally, my Synology NAS syncs with OneDrive and...

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#PowerShell – Create a simple GUI form in seconds

As a PowerShell person I’m personally not a big fan of creating a GUI for PowerShell scripts. This is however something that is asked a lot when PowerShell scripts are created for by example...

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#PowerShell – Anybox module to easily create GUIs by @dm3ll3n

In my previous post #PowerShell – Create a simple GUI form in seconds I wrote about a script I made to easily create a GUI. After posting it, a colleague of mine said he had seen a great solution for...

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