One of the things that is really cool about the Windows Task Scheduler is that there are so many different ways you can trigger an action. One of them is on ...
I know this is probably a niche use case, but being able to run PowerShell scripts to talk to Exchange is something that I spent some time devising and have ...
One of the basics of PowerShell that is often overlooked (I say that because I often overlook it) is the difference between the While loop and the Do-While l...
One of the big projects I’ve been working on this year is to translate my AD PowerShell skills to Azure AD. The really cool part of this process is the adven...
I’ve been working on automating the onboarding process at my new job using PowerShell, but specifically attempting to do as much of it as possible in PowerSh...
I recently started to dig into the Microsoft Graph PowerShell module initially to do some Azure AD stuff, but ultimately to unlock the full potential of the ...
I did a livestream recently where I created a function to parse an HTML table and convert it to a PowerShell object. If you followed along, you probably noti...
Does anyone actually like scrolling through the Event Viewer? Well the filtering is nice, but why make yourself do all that work? Besides, what is login type...
For this week, I’m going to share another classic for me, my Format-Bytes function. This is one of those helper functions I’ve got that I scoff at because it...
Before you read through this post, I heavily encourage you to read my previous post on Tracking down account lockout sources because I’m going to be referrin...
Update: I had a question about checking other DCs beyond just the PDC, according to Microsoft:
Last week we took a look at using Delprof2 to enumerate remote or local user profiles. If you aren’t familiar with that post, I would highly recommend you re...
Much like my past posts on finding logged on users and logging them off, we are going to wrap an executable so that we can use it with PowerShell and the pip...
If you read my last post, you probably caught onto some of my nostalgia. Well, since I cut my PowerShell teeth in the service desk, I’ve got a lot of tools I...
Hey! I’m pulling out a time-tested PowerShell function from my days on the service desk today. Sure it is an old script, but there ain’t a faster way to get ...
I have a problem, well probably lots of them, but today we are going to talk about one in particular: my AC unit does not have a thermostat. It is old enough...
There are a mountain of different ways to get logged on users, but I have a favorite! Using qwinsta, the only problem is that it returns a string and PowerSh...
Lets take a look at working with zip files in PowerShell using .NET or the newer Archive module. System.IO.Compression.ZipFileExtensions::ExtractToFile($zip...
Opinion alert! Disclaimer: This is, of course, my opinion, but hey, its good stuff to know, so bear with me.
This is the absolute simplest blog post you will ever read on how to build a basic PowerShell module. I won’t be getting into advanced module building, autom...
This post kicks off a series of blog post that I’ll be doing on how to get started building PowerShell tools in between issue resolution, phone calls, and wh...
One of the things I discovered with doing a lot of PowerShell is that I ended up with a TON of snippets, notes, and random .ps1 files that could be a script,...
Why I’m starting a blog
First Post Hello! And congratulations for reading my very first post. This is really just to test my ability to read documentation. Heck, I could be doing th...
One of things that bugs me is when I have to do something outside of PowerShell. It make me sad when I have to physically stand in line at the Post Office, o...
I really enjoy livestreaming. And when I got asked if I had a post detailing my setup (thanks Chrissy LeMaire) I realized that something like that would have...
This year marks the 4th year that I intended to attend the PowerShell summit. I say ‘intended’ because last year the pandemic cancelled the summit, which mad...
This is definitely not a PowerShell post, but over the last several months I have grappled with what turned out to just be stress. Here’s my story.