Admins Toolbox – PowerShell oneliners
Microsoft's PowerShell can be an awesome tool to manage the Windows operating system, as well as the Azure cloud. What is PowerShell used for? Put simply, Microsoft created PowerShell to [...]
CM Tech Preview 1708 – Make Scripts Work for You!
Greetings everyone, If you haven't heard by now, the newest branch of SCCM 1706 brought the concept of managing PowerShell scripts within the Administrators console that can be executed against [...]
The Value of Managed Services
[br] Today we are going to tell you a little story and see if it rings true for your organization. This is a story of a fictitious company named Contoso. Although [...]
Patch or Petya: There Are Only Two Choices When It Comes to Security
Cyberattacks don't appear to be going away anytime soon. This is what businesses need to do to mitigate IT security threats.
Use PowerShell to find unmanaged computers
Greetings fellow IT geeks. Today's post is centered around PowerShell and a recent request we had from a client. The Issue So like many companies out there, there can be many [...]
Finding Duplicate UPN’s 2 Domains – Powershell
Hello All I was recently working on a project to migrate users from legacy domain to a primary domain. One of the many challenges is finding conflicting UPN between the two domains. UPN [...]
Blog The Case of NIC Teaming VS Sysprep
Hello again all and I hope everyone had a great set of Holidays! Today I'll be blogging about an incident I ran across with sysprep on a bare metal host. [...]
PowerShell Training: Switch Parameter Validation
Summary There are many ways to validate the presence of a [crayon-5c0e7f9e0e1e2303863326-i/] parameter within a PowerShell script or function, but some are definitely better. This post provides a PowerShell function [...]
Why Can’t we all just get along? AKA Task Sequences vs PowerShell (32/64 bit)
Once Upon A Time.... I was recently in a situation where I needed both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerShell scripts to be able to read/write Task Sequence Variables. After trying various [...]
PowerShell Training: Sorting Version Numbers
Summary Sorting version numbers as strings can fail to order them correctly, but the [crayon-5c0e7f9e1e30a169190410-i/] type accelerator can be used to sort them correctly. Introduction Here at Model Technology Solutions, [...]
