overview of their environment I always check a lot of things before writing a report and a recommendation about which steps we need to take. In this blog post, I will show you a script that gathers information about the Active Directory Domain which saves a lot of command-line checking and starting up Management Consoles 😉

Exchange. Setting the value to $null didn't work, and I showed him how to remove it another way. This blog post will show a few ways to add, remove, or replace a value using Active Directory and Exchange Online as examples.

more difficult for users to add printers to their workstation, this blogpost describes how you can add printers using Endpoint Manager and PowerShell in a easy way.

third-party, but Microsoft signed are safe(r). In this blog post, I will show you how you can scan your system for non-Microsoft signed Windows Services and create a report on those.

the older versions here. This blog post will show you how to check for updated modules.

Manager, or by using command-line tools like subinacl.exe or icacls.exe. In this blog post, I will show you how to set NTFS permissions in two different ways using PowerShell 🙂

version 7.) However, you want to configure the devices' security and log settings. In this blog post, I will show you how to do that using Microsoft Intune or Group Policy.

give you a good insight into traffic from the systems to the local network or internet. You can do this with DNS auditing on your Windows server or in your local Pihole server, but that's not always available

tested. In this case, the new servers were not deployed in that specific network yet. But... We did want to test the connections before deploying the servers 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way how to create listening ports on a machine in order to test the connection from another network using netcat on Linux or portqry on Windows.

been missing two things I often use: Notepad and Windows ISE. In this blog post, I will show you how to start Windows Sandbox and automatically install your preferred editors and tools using WinGet and PowerShell.

Administrators group on their Intune devices, and... That's where Custom Compliance policies come in 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you how to automatically check the Administrators group and mark the device as non-compliant if needed.

They come to you telling you that it doesn't work anymore. 🙁 The module you used has become deprecated, cmdlets don't all work anymore, etc. In this blog post, I will show the three most prominent modules that have become deprecated and where you can find good information about the successor to adjust your scripts.

Obsidian. But when working in a Windows Terminal or a standard PowerShell prompt, it's nice to display those .md files in those, too, with all the formatting that Markdown gives you. In this blog post, I will show you how 🙂

running? I will show you three ways to do that in this blog post.

small blog post 🙂 I had to export a registry from a client on which regedit tools were blocked. Exporting using PowerShell is an option, but the format isn't that great by default. In this blog post, I will show you how to export it to a friendly format.

what destination for Microsoft services like Exchange Online, Teams, Endpoint Manager, and so on. Microsoft publishes this on their website but in the blog post, I would like to show you a nice way of outputting

and use your GitHub repository.

2.0 of course and I was just a beginner. I'm getting better at it and the newer versions of PowerShell (And Visual Studio Code) have a few nice formatting tricks. This blogpost will show you a few ways to make your scripts look better and more importantly. A lot more readable!

disposal and have helped me a lot! You can install it using the Microsoft Store method, it will be updated like that too, but for your management server, it's nice to have an installer that works without the Microsoft Store 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way to install or update your SysInternals Suite.

services." (CVE-2013-1609, CVE-2014-0759, CVE-2014-5455) These might be reported for things like Dell services, and you can fix them manually by editing the Registry on the affected device. But... There is an easier way 🙂 This blog post will show you how to create a Proactive Remediation in Intune for it.

It seems that that things are changed now, it was there in VSCode preview versions together with the PowerShell preview extension. All the How-To's I found showed me that way of getting it installed/configured. So I played around a little bit with Jupyter and the PowerShell kernel installation and got it working in VSCode, in this blogpost I will show you how to install and configure everything 🙂

show you how the additional requirement rules work and how you can use PowerShell for those.

is installed on a system. In the blog post, I will show you how they work and why they are more flexible than file and registry checks. What are detection scripts in Intune?

SharePoint data to an Azure Subscription. There was no PowerShell module to query and configure things, but that has changed because the Beta module was released three days ago. In this blog post, I will describe my first experience trying to use the new module.

Microsoft has some excellent features that will make your scripts more readable and consistent formatting-wise. In this blog post, I will show you my configuration and the options I use.

in them, making running them from a command line easier. This blog post will show you the parameters I use in most of my scripts and how they work.

blog post will show you the parameters I use most for version 5 or 7.

blog post, I will show you how to do that 🙂

show some simple examples of what you can do with them 🙂

post, I will show you some examples and why they are so helpful!

correct data type. This blog post will show you how that works and which data types I mostly use for my scripts.

show you what they are and how they work.

will show you a few ways to do that.

you what it does, what you can use it for, and how I use it.

registry, variables, etc. In this blog post, I will show you what a PSDrive does and some examples of its use.

out-dated or not that smart to use them anymore performance wise. In this blogpost I will share a few of them 🙂 (These are just a few, will write a new blogpost with others in the future)

specific actions in the Azure / Entra ID portal in the past. But you can also use it for Intune 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you how this works.

is and how it adds to / replaces the current PowerShellGet v2.2.5.

and cmdlets that require different permissions. In this blog post, I will show you how to query the permissions for a cmdlet, multiple cmdlets, or all cmdlets from a specific Microsoft Graph module.

always curious about what WinGet will download and how it does the silent install of the specified software. In this blog post, I will show you an easy way of retrieving that data 🙂

machines with Attack Surface Reduction enabled for Macros. (Work-around "Setdefender ASR rule 92e97fa1-2edf-4476-bdd6-9dd0b4dddc7b to audit only unit issue is resolved.") This blog post describes how you can recreate the missing shortcuts and deploy this using Intune or run it manually on the affected system(s).

sometimes... That's not what you want. You could break your workstation with PowerShell code, and your workstation is not clean with all features installed, or settings enabled that your target systems don't. And that's where Visual Studio Code and its Remote SSH extension come into play. This blog post will show you how to combine that with a Windows Sandbox instance.

because the cmdlet is not recognized 🙁 But which module should you install to get the script working? Or does your script install or import all the required modules? In this blog post, I will show you how to check from which module(s) the cmdlet(s) originate and if they are present on your system or if you should install them.

permissions. One of the replies I got about that was: How about the Container permissions, those are important too 🙂 And that's correct, they are! In this blog post, I will show you how to create a report on those (Script is based on the OU report)

Role Based Access and delegating permissions on Organizational Units (OU's). But one of the first questions was. What are the current permissions and what should we remove and where? In this blogpost I will show you a way to report on the current permissions so that you can remove them where they shouldn't be granted

this is a blog post for you 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way how you can use the API from Coinmarketcap to show you the latest stats in every newly started PowerShell session.

because of that I use mxtoolbox.com a lot for querying of MX, SPF, DMARC and DKIM records. Wouldn't it be convenient to get a simple overview of those records in a PowerShell function? This blogpost will show you how

commands, script blocks, etc., that you have used. This can be very helpful if your computer or servers are hacked at your office. Or, if you just want to check things 😉 In this blog post, I will show you how to retrieve all those events locally and remotely and save those in an Excel sheet.

*something* to find them and Get-Help afterward for more information on those results. That or using Google for more information... In this blog post, I will show you a way to create a report with all that information in one overview 🙂

You can also use those tools in a local container and connect to it using the command line or Visual Studio Code. In this blog post, I will show you how to install everything and connect and use it locally.

always a good start to pinpoint issues on your system. In this blog post, I will show you how to search, find easily, and export Windows Event Log information.

download and process in larger environments, wasting CPU and time. This blog post will explain how to speed up scripts by filtering server-side before downloading all results and filtering afterward.

IP-Addresses. Nice to know those in secure environments where not everything is allowed to go onto the internet, but how can you test if they are accessible? This blog post will show how to test most of these services using PowerShell.

them. In this blog post, I will show you a few and explain them.

is... I read the NPS logs, and they were DTS Compliant formatted, a bit of a pain to read and search ?? So, I used PowerShell to create a nice log for me in either a GridView or ... Continue reading Use PowerShell to create report of a DTS Compliant NPS log

variables in the remote session which makes things a lot easier. In this blog post, I will show you how 🙂

applications. (I don't need all my functions and scripts being loaded in every PowerShell session or by a Scheduled Task) In this blog post, I will show you how to change your PowerShell profiles and make them specific for an application.

will help you find out why things are not working as you expected. This small blog post will show you how to get more verbose and debug information.

you need to use credentials in a script to connect to a server, service, etc. In this blog post, I will show you how you can use Export/Import-Clixml to do that.

file. There are different parameters for it, and in this blog post, I will show you what you can do with those 🙂

that matches the parameter..." Strange error because the parameter is there... Or is it? In this blog post, I will show you how Get-ManagementRole works in Exchange and how it can help you with issues like this.

objects there are in a specific directory, how much space something takes up on a hard drive, etc. In this blog post, I will show you how the Measure-Command and Measure-Object cmdlets work and how you can use them to your advantage.

but no. 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you how to use it and that it might come in handy!

or check things, and you can do this using PowerShell Direct. In this blog post, I will show you how to use PowerShell Direct with a few examples.

perfect solution without any license requirement. But yeah... I also wanted to use PowerShell on that, this blog post will show you how to install and use PowerShell on chromeOS Flex.

on those too. In this blog post, I will show you two ways in which you can install PowerShell on your Linux machine and yes, I know... There are different Linux Operating Systems with different package managers, in my case I used Ubuntu 22.04 🙂

slots managed by the Ubiquiti UISP software running on my VPS in Docker. In this blog post, I will show you a few examples of how to query it using PowerShell.

built-in PowerShell ISE is usually there for you on Windows, but there's a nice PowerShell module that you can use called PSEdit. In this blog post, I will show you how to use that as an alternative to VSCode.

easier. Even though it shows you things that you shouldn't do, for example using aliases, you can get even more tips and hints to make your code even better. This blog post will show you how to use the PSScriptAnalyzer module which can give you some additional hints that Visual Studio Code doesn't show you.

Windows Sandbox. You can look at this as a throwaway Windows VM, you start and use it, and afterward, there's no trace of it anymore, making it ideal for testing! In this blog post, I will show you how to test PowerShell scripts and Intune packages in Windows Sandbox.

multiple If, and even Elseif. But there is another option, Switch. In this blog post, I will show you how you can use Switch and make your scripts more readable in the process 🙂

with Administrator privileges, you can add checks for that in the script itself or... You can use the built-in #Requires statement for that. In this blog post, I will show you how.

(My favorite!), and it did not cross my path earlier. In this blog post, I will show you how it works and why it's a great tool to optimize your script performance!

test VM for a customer if you want to have it up-to-date before going through the Windows Autopilot process, for example. In this blog post, I will show you how the module works with a few examples of how I use it.

information when things don't work. The Trace-Command cmdlet is a valuable tool that gives you much information about what's going on behind the scenes. In this blog post, I will show you how to use it.

and... It's still there, even in Windows Server 2022. I will show you what it is and how it works in this blog post.

Edge Browser, Teams and Outlook of course ?? ) that I start after logging into my laptop. It's a Terminal application which allows you to have multiple PowerShell (Or cmd, ssh or even WSL linux sessions) open. In this blogpost I will show you some configuration settings to make it your go-to app for command-line stuff ??

taking away your focus. You can try using the script in this blog post to keep focused on your task, when the count-down timer is done your programs will be available again

Microsoft Teams think I'm away while I'm not / My PC isn't locked yet... I read a few solutions, setting your status duration to a date in the future, etc... Didn't work 🙁 What does work is running my simple PowerShell scripts, which I will show you in this blog post 🙂

non-compliant Intune devices. The report should give insight into what device has what issue with which setting; the person asking the question was already working on a Microsoft Graph script but couldn't find a suitable way. In this blog post, I will show how to create this report. There are other scripts out there, but I always like a challenge (And Microsoft Graph can be quite a challenge sometimes 😉 )

local or domain account configured. They needed this report because they are switching to more strict Group Policies and they needed to know what user accounts should have the "Log on as a batch job"

you want to start it with certain options (Connect a folder on your harddrive or start without a network connection) and you have to create a custom configuration file (.wsb) with those options. This blogpost shows you how to start Windows Sandbox using PowerShell with parameters without the need of creating multiple configuration files.

some scripts, changed a few things, and updated some of the blog posts. Check them out if you haven't already 😉 (Check the sidebar for categories)

doesn't connect anymore, shows warnings that some commands are deprecated and now what?! In this blogpost I will show you a way to update all your modules to the latest version and also remove unused older versions.

PowerShell; I did that because there is so much material to learn from and use as a reference/help system. In this blog post, I will show you your options at Microsoft Learn to improve your PowerShell skills.

learning all the PowerShell commands as a Linux admin was difficult. PowerShell was built to make it easier for Linux admins to transition to it. In this blog post, I will show you how aliases work and how they help Linux Admins get started with basic PowerShell tasks.

list.

there now, and I thought... Ok, can I Toot in Mastodon using PowerShell? This blog post will show you how 😉

customize Windows Terminal in many ways, and in this blog post, I will show you how to change the background in your Profiles to a fixed or randomly selected one.

wanted to create a simple test exam quiz for myself with multiple-choice questions. This blog post will show you how to do that using an Excel file with questions and A, B, C, and D answers including the correct answer to check on.

on and some were used only once 😉 In this blog post, I will show you my current list of modules and tell you why I use(d) them...

show you how to get one each time you start a new PowerShell session.

some responses about the login banner screen. In this blog post, I will show you an easy way to pimp your PowerShell Console 😉

blog post, I will show you a few that are nice to play while waiting for your installation to complete or your code to compile 🙂

sending this to the laptop of a colleague and having fun while he's trying to figure out where the voice is coming from ?? How it works There is a System.Speech assembly which can be used to

Stream Deck Mk 2 Studio Controller with 15 buttons), mainly because of the Microsoft Teams support, but you can use it for PowerShell too! In this blog post, I will show you a few examples.