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Easy way to create diagrams using PowerShell and PSWriteHTML
A few months ago, when I was working on PSWriteWord and PSWriteHTML, I thought to myself that in 2020 if I’ll get time, I’ll try to create PSWriteVisio. While I wasn’t s…
What do we say to health checking Active Directory?
Setting up a new Active Directory is an easy task. You download and install Windows Server, install required roles and in 4 hours or less have a basic Active Directory s…
Making PowerShellGallery modules Portable
I’m a big fan of PowerShellGallery. It’s easy to use, Microsoft owned, a place to host your PowerShell modules. Every time I release a new PowerShell module, it’s readil…
Comparing two or more objects visually in PowerShell (cross-platform)
For the last few weeks I’m working on a small project, that should be released within next few weeks (it is open source so don’t worry – you’ll get to play with it). Thi…
Formatting and minifying resources (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with PowerShell
When you work with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you often meet three versions on how those are stored in files – minified, formatted, somewhere in the middle (usually a to…
Getting Active Directory Last Backup Time using PowerShell
I shouldn’t be telling you that, but Active Directory Backup is an essential part of your Active Directory setup. When a backup of Active Directory happens, AD is aware…
Working with HTML in PowerShell just got better
Last few weeks, I’ve been working on making creating HTML based Dashboards, Reports, and Emails better. PSWriteHTML already allows fancy looking reports or emails withou…
Testing LDAP and LDAPS connectivity with PowerShell
One of the common ways to connect to Active Directory is thru LDAP protocol. There are a lot of applications that talk to AD via LDAP. By default Active Directory has LD…
Instant Replication between Active Directory sites with PowerShell
In Active Directory when you change something, it’s replicated to other Domain Controllers regularly. It’s a standard procedure that happens automatically in the backgro…
Executing hidden or private functions from PowerShell Modules
When you write PowerShell modules, there’s a high chance you will have conflicts with either existing system commands (you should avoid that) or with someone else’s modu…