Consider the following scenario: There’s a switched on client computer in a branch office and you want to connect to that computer via remote desktop. Remote desktop is disabled by default on all Windows operating systems. There’s no user logged on this client computer and no one can help you to enable remote desktop. What […]
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I make no secret of it: Now we come to my favorite topic: PowerShell Remoting. I love it. I hope you’ll love it too. If you are a passionate Systems Engineer or Developer you’ll find a lot of tips and tricks in this part to make work life easier and more efficient. But first a […]
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Without any doubt, you should have an eye on the disk space of your servers. I’ve seen so many servers crashing due to dropping disk space over time, because of saving more and more files and data or because of Windows Updates. They were running Exchange, SQL, AD and all of them were important servers […]
This article describes how to use a graphical menu to discover and administer your Active Directory Environment. It’s like sconfig, but much more powerful when it comes to automation with Active Directory.
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Sometimes it could happen that your computer lost connection to other hosts or the internet. What is the first you should do? For example, you could try to reach other hosts or your default gateway. Sure, you could use the bottom up method by climbing up the ladder of the OSI Model and check your […]
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What if you are not satisfied with the default output of PowerShell? Well, there are many ways to come closer to the desired result. In this blog article I am going to create Custom Objects with PowerShell.
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While doing Exchange or Office 365 migration the best way to monitor migration progress is using powershell commands, but in order to do that you might have to keep entering the same commands repeatedly.
To get hands free below script can be used with appropriate time to repeat the command itself in loop.. e.g.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> while ($true)
>> {
>> Get-MigrationUser | where {($_.BatchID -eq "migration-users-batch1") -and ($_.Status -eq "Synced")} | measure-object
>> sleep -seconds (60*5)
>> }
..just change the third line with your powershell command and time (60 sec * 5 Minutes) required to repeat the command.. to end press CNTR + C.
