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Active Directory Domain Services Section (Part 2) - Start it from your Client Computer (without RSAT)

Active Directory Domain Services Section (Part 2) – Start it from your Client Computer (without RSAT)

I’m happy many of you liked my little, humble script that enables you to play around in Active Directory. Well, this blog post will be a short one, because all I wanna do is to show you how to start it comfortably from your Client Computer. This avoids logging on to a Domain Controller and is a user-friendly feature for my community out there.

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Graphical Tool for AD Overview: Active Directory Domain Services Section

Graphical Tool for AD Overview: Active Directory Domain Services Section

I hesitated for a long time. It’s done, it’s not done… should I add more menus… But at some point it’s over. It has to be published. The following article describes the use of a set of advanced functions. This function presents a menu with a lot of scripts in it. It’s like sconfig, but in relation it’s much more powerful when it comes to Active Directory administration.

The function has grown and…

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Active Directory: Ändern des Anzeigenamens von Benutzern auf "Nachname Vorname" (Display Name, Name)

Active Directory: Ändern des Anzeigenamens von Benutzern auf “Nachname Vorname” (Display Name, Name)

Es hat seinen Grund warum manche meiner Beiträge dann doch noch auf Deutsch veröffentlicht werden. Active Directory Benutzerobjekte haben Attribute. Und diese Attribute haben Voreinstellungen wie z.B. den Anzeigenamen und den Full Name des Benutzerobjekts.

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Microsoft Azure: Managing your Azure Ressources with your Smartphone App (iPhone/Android)

It’s inexplicable to me, but my students have always been the most attentive to remoting. I don’t mean the traditional remote connections from computer to computer with remote desktop or the other stuff, but the connections with the smartphone. For some time now it has been possible to control your cloud computer or cloud resource via an app. The app is called Microsoft Azure. Let’s try it out.

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PowerShell: Fehlermeldungen mit SilentlyContinue unterdrücken

Manchmal möchte man gar nicht wissen, wenn es etwas nicht funktioniert. Man möchte es auch nicht sehen. Wenn dieser Zustand eintritt, dann hilft der Parameter SilentlyContinue. Es wird dadurch ruhiger und doch weitergemacht. Die PowerShell wird zur Ruhe-Oase …

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Hyper-V: Backup VMs to a shared folder with Windows Server Backup and a Scheduled Task

Hyper-V: Backup VMs to a shared folder with Windows Server Backup and a Scheduled Task

Last week I had the task to backup Hyper-V VMs. No Replica, no Clustering, a simple backup with Windows Server Backup. The problem was that a repeating backup job had already been set up. Windows Server Backup allows only one job in the graphic user interface. So, the task was to create a scheduled weekly job with the command line.

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Test the reachability of all Domain-Controllers: Test-AllDomainController

As the headline says, with this small script you are able to test all your Domain-Controllers with a single command Test-AllDomainController. The simple things are the best, by all means 😉

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Do-Speak: Start talking with Remote Computers (System.Speech)

Do-Speak: Start talking with Remote Computers (System.Speech)

In this article I’ll show you how to use a very simple command that works for the local computer and remote computers and lets your computers speak.

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PowerShell: Retrieve and store hardware information of domain computers

PowerShell: Retrieve and store hardware information of domain computers

WMI is a powerful feature. In this article I am going to retrieve information of the installed memory (RAM) of all domain computers and store the output in a file.

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Mein Blog: Das Internet hat nicht auf mich gewartet (Teil 8)

Mein Blog: Das Internet hat nicht auf mich gewartet (Teil 8)

Es tut gut mal wieder auf Deutsch zu schreiben. In regelmäßigen Abständen werde ich über die Entwicklung meines Blogs berichten. Das ist es was ich mir vorgenommen habe. Um den Lesern einen Einblick zu gewähren wie es denn so läuft. Nach dem englischen Beitrag The Internet has not waited for me (Part 7): A Review of the Year 2017 haben wir den Februar hinter uns gebracht.

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PowerShell: Get all logged on Users per Computer/OU/Domain (Get-UserLogon)

Recently I was asked how to show all logged on users. So I had the idea to make a function out of it. And now I’ll share this function to the community. Who logged on to which computer and when? That is the question for this article. Actually, the main question is: Who is currently logged in?

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Check Version of PowerShell (localhost and remote hosts)

Check Version of PowerShell (localhost and remote hosts)

In this blog post I show how to find out the Version of PowerShell on the localhost and on remote computers.

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Copy-Item and Remove-Item: Automate copying and deleting operations

Copy-Item and Remove-Item: Automate copying and deleting operations

It can happen that files have to be deleted regularly or copied somewhere else. This is no problem in itself, as long as you know a little about scripting. But many people don’t get that far, they just buy the next product, hopefully not Total Commander, but “Super Copy”. The Ask Toolbar will then be installed at the same time. Later on, there is a lot of discussion about the vulnerabilities of…

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PowerShell: Encrypt and store your Passwords and use them for Remote Authentication (Protect-CmsMessage)

When it comes to certificates, many people flee. The topic is not very popular, but everything is not as bad as feared. In this article I will show you how to store your password or passwords in encrypted form on your hard drive. Due to the public/private key process, the user holding the certificate (specifically the privat key)  is the only one who can open the file and read the passwords.…

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PowerShell Function: Get-ADGroupMembershipperDepartment

In grown environments it often comes to a complete confusion. Employees in departments are group members in groups in which they should not be member of.

If there is a clean and tidy Active Directory environment, then you can use the database perfectly for queries. For example, if the name of the department is in the department field, the group membership of this user can be queried. This article…

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PowerShell for Beginners (Part 11): Having fun with PowerShell Drives

PowerShell for Beginners (Part 11): Having fun with PowerShell Drives

Last time we filtered objects with the filter method and with Where-Object.  In this part I would like to go back to the basics, to go back to something we haven’t learned so far. What I am talking about is working with PowerShell Drives. But first, let’s look at the exercise from the last part.

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PowerShell for Beginners (Part 10): Filtering and Where-Object

PowerShell for Beginners (Part 10): Filtering and Where-Object

We have already learned a lot about PowerShell. Last time we worked with WMI: PowerShell for Beginners (Part 9): Get it all from Windows with PowerShell and WMI Now, in my opinion, it is the best time to focus on the topic “Filtering with PowerShell”. But first, let’s look at the exercise from the last part.

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