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Category Archives: PowerShell
A quick look at the Microsoft Intune Cookbook by Andrew Taylor
Introduction There are plenty of really good books recently released right now covering Microsoft Intune, and this one is no exception. This book is called Microsoft Intune Cookbook and it’s from fellow Microsoft MVP, Andrew Taylor. The book is designed … Continue reading
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Saving electricity in your home lab using Powershell – part 3. Using WOL to wake the lab on demand
Introduction In the previous blog posts we learned how to run scheduled tasks to save (hibernate) all running virtual machines and then power off the hyperv lab to save electricity. Next we added another task/script to resume all the previously … Continue reading
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Saving electricity in your home lab using Powershell – part 2. Starting the previously running vms after power on
Introduction In a part 1, I showed you how you can automatically power off your hyperv-lab using a scheduled task and Powershell, I modified the original script in that blog post to also write the current running VM’s to a … Continue reading
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Saving electricity in your home lab using Powershell – part 1. Automating graceful shutdown
Introduction I saw a tweet from well known Irish MVP Rory Monaghan here where he was explaining how he automates shutting down his home lab to save on electricity costs. I thought to myself that’s a great idea ! The … Continue reading
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Providing access to your Azure tables data via a SAS read only token
Introduction In an earlier blog post I showed you how you can let your users use a self-service app to Retire their old PC’s, when getting their shiny new Windows Autopilot PC. If you are not familiar with Retire My … Continue reading
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Problems setting a timezone using Set-TimeZone
Introduction This is just a quick post to give some detail about a problem I dealt with, because when searching for it I got no direct hits to my specific problem, at least not for “Singapore Standard Time”. We prompt … Continue reading
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Upgrading the SQL Server 2012 Client Agent with PowerShell to support TLS 1.2 for SCCM installations
Introduction This is a quick post to highlight a small update to my Install SQL Server 2017.ps1 script used to install SCCM 1902 with SQL Server 2017 on Windows Server 2019 published recently. I’ve added a new section to deal … Continue reading
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How can I install System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 on Windows Server 2019 with SQL Server 2017 – Part 5
Introduction This multi-part guide will show you how to install the latest baseline version of Configuration Manager from Microsoft. The latest available baseline version is System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 as of April the 10th 2019. I … Continue reading
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How can I install System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 on Windows Server 2019 with SQL Server 2017 – Part 4
Introduction This multi-part guide will show you how to install the latest baseline version of Configuration Manager from Microsoft. The latest available baseline version is System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 as of April the 10th 2019. I … Continue reading
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How can I install System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 on Windows Server 2019 with SQL Server 2017 – Part 3
Introduction This multi-part guide will show you how to install the latest baseline version of Configuration Manager from Microsoft. The latest available baseline version is System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 as of April the 10th 2019. SCCM … Continue reading
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Microsoft releases PowerShell Intune samples on GitHub
Introduction Microsoft have just published some new PowerShell Intune samples on GitHub. You might also want to follow Dave on Twitter. Downloads You can download the PowerShell samples here. the readme.md file contains information about how to use the scripts … Continue reading
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Install SQL Server 2017 PowerShell script – download it here
Introduction In case you missed it I wrote a PowerShell script to install SQL Server 2017 CU5 here. You can install SQL Server 2017 with SSMS and Reporting Services using this PowerShell script. The original blog post was created to … Continue reading
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Where can I find indexes of the windows-noob.com step-by-step guides
Introduction windows-noob.com has been around for many years, and during that time I’ve written hundreds of step-by-step guides with screenshots. You may not be aware, but I’ve created indexes of these guides that cover multiple versions of System Center Configuration … Continue reading
How can I automate the deployment of Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update) using MDT and PowerShell ?
Introduction Microsoft released the new Surface Pro and recently a new operating system, Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update). Now you can automate the installation of it using PowerShell. This script has been written to allow you to automate … Continue reading
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How can I quickly create a Hyper-V Virtual Machine using PowerShell
Introduction This is an extremely quick post to help you create Hyper-V virtual machines using PowerShell. The script assumes you’ve already installed the Hyper-V feature in Windows. You can define a bunch of variables *highlighted in red below* such as … Continue reading
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