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Diagnostic tools and utilities to help you cure your ailing PC
Doctors have stethoscopes and surgeons their scalpels, but tools for troubleshooting problems with desktop and laptop computers are a bit less well known. That’s why I’ve kept a running list over the...
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Avoid traffic jams with Microsoft’s Windows Server QoS Policy
Today’s complex enterprise IT networks carry a lot of different kinds of traffic. These typically include your ordinary local area network (LAN) traffic such as web browsing, file transfer, database...
View ArticleNifty little time savers: The power of PowerShell logical operators
If you are just learning PowerShell scripting or have been using PowerShell scripting for quite some time, you must have realized that it’s quite difficult to design a PowerShell script without...
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Product Review: SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 12.3 & Network...
Product Review: SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 12.3 and Network Configuration Manager 7.8 Learn more: Click here Download a free trial: Click here ‘Deeper visibility. Smarter scalability’ As IT...
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More PowerShell one-liner commands
In a previous article, we showed how you can use PowerShell simple commands to execute an action quickly rather than writing several lines of code. We explained how you could use the Export-CSV...
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Automating application packaging with PowerShell
Packaging enterprise software applications for deployment is something that can keep many administrators lying awake at night staring at the ceiling. Today’s enterprise applications are often large,...
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PowerShell power lesson: This is no ordinary variable
If you follow my work on this site, then you know that I write a whole lot of PowerShell-related content. One of the expressions that I tend to use in my PowerShell scripts on a regular basis is dollar...
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Help corner: How to manage large email attachments
Every once in a while I hear from someone who does IT support for a business or organization and who says they need help dealing with huge email attachments they send or receive regularly. For example,...
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Quick and easy way to get Active Directory group membership
Microsoft provides PowerShell commands for all roles and features including Active Directory. There are 900-plus PowerShell cmdlets provided for Active Directory alone, which can be used to access and...
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Have Microsoft patches reached a painful tipping point?
When it comes to patching the Windows Server platform, various versions of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and other Microsoft applications, it almost seems to me like Microsoft is broken. In the...
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Comparing ISATAP with other IPv6 transition technologies
A few weeks ago our own Lavanya Rathnam here on TechGenix published an excellent article explaining how ISATAP can be used to help transition your organization’s IPv4 network infrastructure to IPv6....
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PowerShell quick hits: Cmdlets and scripts for managing Windows Failover
Microsoft provides PowerShell commands for all roles and features including Windows Failover. Windows Failover can be managed using Failover Cluster Manager as well as PowerShell cmdlets that ship with...
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How to get a handle on Microsoft Windows patch management
In a previous article here on TechGenix, I argued that Microsoft’s approach to patch management has reached a tipping point because the pain of patching Windows operating systems and applications has...
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PowerShell aliases: My never-ending love/ hate relationship
When it comes to PowerShell, I have always had something of a love/hate relationship with aliases. On one hand, many of the PowerShell aliases that exist are completely cryptic and I think that they...
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Deploying Local Administrator Password Management (LAPS)
One of the nightmares of every security professional is having all workstations and servers sharing the same local administrator name and password, and as soon as the password is known then all...
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Tools for your toolbox: Quick Active Directory PowerShell commands
Microsoft provides PowerShell commands for all roles and features including Active Directory. There are more than 900 PowerShell cmdlets provided for Active Directory alone that can be used to access...
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Making your private store play nice with Windows Update
The private store is a feature of Microsoft Store for Business that you can configure during your sign up process. The private store allows your users to view and download Windows 10 apps that your...
View ArticleBasic Active Directory replication troubleshooting using PowerShell
Almost all roles and features that ship with Windows have the PowerShell modules included. Active Directory PowerShell provides necessary modules to manage Active Directory and its components including...
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Network monitoring in a hybrid world: Talking with SolarWinds’ Chris O’Brien
Network monitoring and troubleshooting has evolved quite a bit from the old days when I used to scroll through endless events in log files or slap a Fluke on a cable. Today’s business networks often...
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Think beyond the letter: Navigating drives with PowerShell
Most of us who have worked with computers for any length of time have probably been conditioned to think of a drive as a letter that has been mapped to a physical or logical storage device. In...
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