PowerShell – Start-Service, Stop-Service, they work, but not always well enough!
Well as the title suggests, I’m happy with the code, but I always find myself adding more and more code around the cmdlets. Service control in Windows has been pretty straight forward for the past few decades. Obviously PowerShell can control the state and configuration of services, but one thing I’ve always run into with service control is reacting to how the service stops and starts and also managing the state of dependent services. I’m sharing some short code functions that I use.
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It’s that “Time” Again – Windows Server 2016 Time Changes
Well I recently blogged about time syncronization issues in Windows Time Sync – The fixes!. This troubleshooting still works on Windows Server 2016, but hopefully we don’t need to do it as often!
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Windows Azure Pack (WAP) Overview
Do you empower your customers whether they’re colleagues, internal departments or even 3rd party entities to provision virtual machines, databases or websites in your data center?
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PowerShell – Is your AD Sites and Services missing subnets?
This has been a very common pain point for Active Directory administrators. AD is perfectly planned according to Microsoft’s best practices and successfully deployed. But as time goes on, network admins change the network topology, devices are added here and there and if there is no formal process of adding new networks, AD Sites and Services will mostly likely not be updated to reflect these changes.
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PowerShell – Copy directories/files to a list of remote computers
How often are you given a list of servers and you need to quickly copy files to them? I used to always take the wonderfully format list given to me and format them into a PowerShell array buy putting quotes around each of them and commas. Example:
$Computers = @(
“Server01”,
“Server02”,
“Server03.mydomain.local”,
“Server06”
)
Windows Time Sync – The fixes!
As many of you know when running a simple standalone machine at home, at work, in a datacenter or in the cloud, time keeping can be tricky. Very odd though, it’s been around for over a decade and people/enterprises still can’t seem to figure out how it really works or how they should configure it.
Every Windows computer has a lovely service on it that is called W32Time with a description that reads “Windows Time Service”. This service is set to manual, and for all intents and purposes can be left that way.
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Azure Stack – @Data_Raft
The goal of this project is to bring affordable Hyper-Converged infrastructure to environments of all sizes using 100% native Microsoft technologies and a few cool Open Source tools too. The cost to you is FREE.
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@MVPDays – Seattle 2016
What did you miss by not attending #MVPDays, Seattle 2016?
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