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How to find different server types in Active Directory with PowerShell
Working as a freelancer is a great thing if you can handle it. Each day, each week something new happens and a new problem shows up on my d…
How to get Windows 10 Anniversary Update outside of Windows Update
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update is one of the biggest updates since the launch of Windows 10. It’s full of…
How to permanently disable UAC in Windows Server
User Account Control (UAC) is a feature in Windows that can help you stay in control of your computer by…
Install Windows 10 Anniversary Update on Parallels Desktop for Mac
On August 2nd Microsoft released Windows 10 Anniversary update with all brand new features. As I’m running Mac with Mac OS…
Install-Module: The term Install-Module is not recognized as the name of cmdlet, function, script file or operable program
Recently I was asked to implement PSWinReporting onto yet another domain. Happily I’ve started to install my 6 modules to…
Just different approach to Active Directory Password Notifications
A long time ago I’ve maintained a C# version of Password Expiry reminders. It was working based on HTML templates…
Manage NTFS permissions with Powershell
Managing NTFS permissions via GUI is not a trivial thing. One mistake and a lot of data is shared to…
Meet Emailimo – New way to send pretty emails with PowerShell
When reading this blog post, you may be thinking that there’s nothing new one can add to emailing with PowerShell as there were tons of art…
Microsoft discontinues Active Directory Replication Status Tool
Active Directory Replication Status Tool is very nifty application providing information about potential problems in replication between do…
Microsoft Outlook – Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.
When working on Windows Server 2016 on RDS session one of the users reported he cannot start Outlook. He gets…
Microsoft Word – How to remove last section break
Working with Microsoft Word sections allows you to create different visual pages in your document without much effort. Adding different…
Monitoring Active Directory Changes on Users and Groups with PowerShell
Working as Administrator with Active Directory can be rewarding. You can easily deploy new settings, make changes to users even…
Monitoring User, Groups Changes in Active Directory – version 0.8
💡 Little introduction Event Monitoring solution written in PowerShell is an event library (Get-EventsLibrary.ps1) script that parses Secur…
Office for Mac 2016 activation problem
Downloading Office for Mac 2016 from Office 365 subscription seems an easy task. Unfortunately it doesn’t always go as planned….
OfficeIMO – Free cross-platform Microsoft Word .NET library
I’ve created a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS) Word library based on Open XML SDK that heavily simplifies creating and modifying Wor…
Out-HtmlView – HTML alternative to Out-GridView
One of the most comfortable output’s in PowerShell to work and analyze data is Out-GridView. It’s handy as you can search, sort and have th…
Powershell – Change DNS IP Addresses remotely
Sometimes you need to update multiple computers with proper DNS settings. Instead of doing this one by one manually you…
PowerShell – Environment Path is missing or overwritten
I had a strange issue today when I was doing some development where suddenly my scripts would report inability to…
PowerShell – Everything you wanted to know about Event Logs and then some
If you feel this title is very familiar to you it’s because I actually have stolen the title from Kevin Marquette. I’m in awe of his posts…
Prepare Windows 10 Start Menu for all computers in Active Directory
Windows 10 in my humble opinion is very good system. It has it’s pros and cons but so does each…