Force Multiplication through IT Automation
Jason Hofferle
My list of free PowerShell eBooks has been very popular, so I decided to compile a list of paid PowerShell books. I own several of these books myself, and I thought it would be helpful to have links to the publisher page for code examples, bonus chapters and errata. My top recommendation is Windows PowerShell [...]
The 2012 Sarasota IT Pro Camp at Keiser University was a great success, mainly due to the hard work from the organizers and volunteers. I want to thank all the attendees for coming out, and especially those that came to my remoting session. Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Slide deck for Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Layman’s [...]
Many of the resources and discussions about PowerShell are geared towards enterprise IT staff responsible for supporting servers. With entire books written about using PowerShell to manage Exchange, vSphere, and other enterprise technologies, it’s easy for end-user support personnel to get the impression that PowerShell isn’t something they need to know. I’m here to tell [...]
A common way to add domain groups to the local administrators group on a computer is with the net command. This worked well for me until I ran into groups with names longer than 20 characters. That’s right, the NET.EXE /ADD command does not support names longer than 20 characters. If net localgroup /add is [...]
Two-factor authentication with smart cards is becoming more common, but it can be a real pain when the computer is broken and Windows is refusing to allow a local account to logon for troubleshooting. The security setting Interactive logon: Require smart card may prevent console logons, but if the registry can still be accessed over [...]
One of the differences between the VMware View cmdlets and PowerCLI is that the View cmdlets can only be run on the connection server itself. Despite the lack of a Connect-VIServer equivalent, with PowerShell Implicit Remoting it’s still possible to use these cmdlets from a workstation. First, PowerShell Remoting needs to be enabled on the [...]
Thank you to everyone that attended the Orlando IT Pro Camp. It was a great opportunity to learn and network with other IT Professionals. Here are the slides and resources from my sessions. Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Slide deck for Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Layman’s Guide to PowerShell 2.0 Remoting Ravikanth Chaganti Administrator’s Guide to [...]
I’m usually pretty happy with the default PowerShell prompt that displays the current path, however sometimes I just want a generic prompt for screenshots or a demonstration. With an infinite number of custom PowerShell prompts possible, it became apparent that the appropriate prompt depends on the current task. By copying the Set-Prompt function into $Env:UserProfile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1, [...]
Checking boxes gets old quickly, and I’ve installed and checked those little boxes for the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) on Windows 7 enough times for it to be annoying. I just wanted a static script with the names of the features to enable, but Xenophane’s Blog has some examples of extracting the output of [...]
