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A collection of 24 posts

Azure Featured

How to check if an Azure Marketplace image is marked for deprecation

How to check if an Azure Marketplace image is marked for deprecation.

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Querying DNS Records with PowerShell

In this blog post explore how you can use PowerShell to query DNS records.

Azure Bicep Featured

Create your first Azure Bicep Template

Join me in as I walk you through deploying creating your first Azure Bicep template and deploying it to Azure.

Exchange Online

Install Exchange Online PowerShell modules

Join me as I look at how to install the latest Exchange Online PowerShell modules on your local computer and start to interact with your Exchange environment.

PowerShell

Script the install of software

Help to speed up the installation of software on your machine using PowerShell, Windows Package Manager or Chocolatey.

Windows Server Featured

Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification

Join me as I take a look at the new Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification.

Windows Package Manager Featured

RunAsRadio: Windows Package Manager

Join me as I have a chat with Richard Campbell at RunAs Radio about Windows Package Manager.

PowerShell

How to use PowerShell's Grep

Join me as I look at how you can use grep within PowerShell

WinGet

Keep your software up to date with Windows Package Manager

Join me as I look at how you can use Windows Package Manager to keep all the software installed on your machine up to date.

PowerShell

Install PowerShell 7 with Windows Package Manager

Join me as I use Windows Package Manager to install PowerShell 7

WinGet Featured

PowerShell autocomplete and Windows Package Manager

Join me as I install auto complete into my PowerShell environment and use it to help me with my Windows Package Manager commands!

Hugo

How to install Hugo on Windows 10

Join me as I install Hugo on Windows 10

Automation Featured

Installing software with Windows Package Manager

Join me as I look at Windows Package Manager (WinGet) to install software.

PowerShell

Run Windows Update From PowerShell

Join me as I use a PowerShell modules to trigger checking for Windows Updates and install them.

PowerShell Featured

How to Install winget (Windows Package Manager)

Discover the power of WinGet! Learn how to install and utilize Microsoft's Windows Package Manager effortlessly.

PowerShell Featured

Customise Windows Terminal

Join me as I talk you through how to customise your Windows Terminal console and share my configuration.

Troubleshooting

“WARNING: Unable to download the list of available providers. Check your internet connection.” Unable to update PowerShell Packages

Join me as I try and understand why I can't get any PowerShell modules to update on this demo server that I have spun up!

Microsoft 365 Featured

Find devices attached to Microsoft 365 mail accounts

In this script I look at retrieving the list of users who have mobile devices attached to their Office 365 account.

PowerShell

Enable Telnet with PowerShell

Every now and again you need to troubleshoot firewall rules and Telnet is a great tool to help understand if a port is open or not between two devices. However Telnet is not enabled by default anymore, it has been like that since Windows Server 2008. The following Powershell commands

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Configure non-integrated DNS zones with PowerShell

I've been looking at scripting out the build out of my Azure Lab so I can build it, use it for a purpose then rip it down and start again to use it again.  One of the scripts that I've pulled together is configuring non-integrated DNS

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How to Run PowerShell Commands on Remote Computers

Powershell Remoting can allow you to run individual commands or run full Powershell sessions on remote systems.  Unfortunately by default it is locked down, so before you try to use it you need to enable it.  Within a domain this is an easy process. 1. On the computer you wish

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Configuring Zone Transfers using DNSCMD

In this blog post I share how you use DNSCMD to configure Zone Transfers.

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Connecting to Azure with PowerShell and controlling your VMs

I have a small lab setup within Azure and over the past week I have been working quite a bit within that lab perfecting a couple of PowerShell scripts. As I have limited credits available to me within Azure I am always careful to ensure that my Virtual Machines (VMs)

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Retention Policy PowerShell Commands

PowerShell queries to understand who has retention policies applied to their mailbox or not.