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PowerShell – Installing and Finding Modules (PowerShellGet)

Jan 12, 2017 | Azure, Scripts, Windows Server | 3 |

Install-Module is a wonderful new cmdlet that comes with PowerShell v5 and can be found in Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0. This allows us to skip the whole search the Internet to find modules and pull them from pre-configured repositories. By default, your machines should be configured to look at https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/ .

EmoPowerShell Validate Parameters for you

Jan 6, 2017 | Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

When writing PowerShell scripts, one of the most time consuming tasks is validating input and handling invalid input. PowerShell does have built in mechanisms to deal with this and ease these tasks so that we can focus on creating a production level script.

Free – Azure Training!

Jan 5, 2017 | Azure, Certification, Windows Server | 0 |

On-going training is something that anyone in IT needs. IT changes as fast as the clouds come and...

Comparing Office 2016 and Office365 ProPlus

Dec 29, 2016 | Azure, Office365, SCCM | 0 |

With the widespread adoption of Office365, a popular question that comes our way is whether to...

PowerShell – My way to prepare a SQL Server VM

Dec 22, 2016 | Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

As I get called on a lot of to do SQL Server installations, I’ve come up with what I’ve found works best for me. Every location has different infrastructure, security, networks and their way of doing things. Since I’m the one doing the installation, and I know I’ll get called back in the future at some point to upgrade, troubleshoot or manage the SQL Server environment, I like to have a set of standards. Documentation, I actually do enjoy writing it (yes I may be sick), but having a self-documenting PowerShell script is even better!

Master PowerShell Tricks Volume 1 – Kindle Version is now Available

Dec 19, 2016 | Books, MVPDays | 0 |

Well fearless @mvpdays followers it is official we are in print on Amazon. Kindle version of...

PowerShell – Start-Service, Stop-Service, they work, but not always well enough!

Dec 16, 2016 | Scripts, Windows Server | 1 |

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.

Hyper Converged for the best price possible – E-Book

Dec 12, 2016 | HyperConverged, MVPDays | 0 |

Well based on some extremely wonderful feedback from our attendees of the North American MVPDays...

Master PowerShell tricks Volume 1

Dec 12, 2016 | MVPDays, Scripts | 0 |

Update…. Order your copy today. Our E-Book is available on Kindle from Amazon Below is a...

It’s that “Time” Again – Windows Server 2016 Time Changes

Dec 9, 2016 | Hyper-V, Windows Server | 0 |

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!

Windows Azure Pack (WAP) Overview

Dec 5, 2016 | Azure, Hyper-V, SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

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?

PowerShell – Is your AD Sites and Services missing subnets?

Nov 30, 2016 | Azure, Scripts, Windows Server | 2 |

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.

Massive Savings on Hyper Converged Infrastructure with Project @Data_Raft #S2D

Nov 29, 2016 | HyperConverged, S2D | 0 |

Many customers and friends have been asking me why I am so passionate about the developments with...

Countdown to Orlando MVPDays

Nov 24, 2016 | MVP, MVPDays | 0 |

We are less than 1 week away from our last stop on the North American MVPDays Community roadshow....

Why Do Hyper Converged Installs fail?

Nov 24, 2016 | Hyper-V, HyperConverged, S2D | 0 |

About two years ago the term Hyper Converged infrastructure was not common in most discussions...

Hyper-V Operational Training Part 2

Nov 24, 2016 | Channel9, Hyper-V | 0 |

Welcome to our second in a series of Hyper-V Operational Training. This training started prior...

Hyper-V Operational Training – Part 1

Nov 23, 2016 | Channel9, Hyper-V | 0 |

Welcome to our first in a series of Hyper-V Operational Training. This training started prior to...

Huge Milestone – Episode 50 – MVPDays Countdown Show – Orlando

Nov 23, 2016 | Channel9, MVPDays | 0 |

Wow I can’t believe we finally did it. 50 Episodes are up and live at...

PowerShell – Copy directories/files to a list of remote computers

Nov 23, 2016 | Scripts, Windows Server | 1 |

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!

Nov 18, 2016 | Azure, Design, HyperConverged, Windows Server | 3 |

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.

Azure Stack – @Data_Raft

Nov 10, 2016 | Azure, Design, HyperConverged, Windows Server | 0 |

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.