Hey guys and girls,

Unfortunately I haven’t really had much time to blog due to some busy times [work, work, work, family, friends, work], but I’ll try and update more regularly with the content I use at my daily tasks.

This might mean that I will also end up posting some non-PowerShell related posts in case I think they’re interesting enough for other people. Judging by personal experience the last few weeks, I will also try and post some “checklists” which I found out for recent cases at work, simply by combining multiple articles and/or Best Practice guides.

Step right up, step right up….

A quick post on behalf of my colleague, 365Dude, who’s presenting a session at this year’s Experts Live 2015.

He still has 3 tickets available in case someone is interested in going to this year’s convention, November 19th. Be sure to drop him an e-mail if you’re interested in going!

And even if you’re not interested in an Office 365 session, have a look at the program to see what might else be of your interest!

The Problem

Have you ever created a new user or computer object, but you’re unable to find them in the Default Computers/Users container? Perhaps someone moved the default location to another Organizational Unit [i.e. to make sure GPO’s applied correctly] .

In this case a quick and simple script will check which containers are configured for this task and it will check if they’re using default values or not.

The Script

Now that I have my Lab configured and set up to accept remoting from my Client machine, I want to set up a small Hyper-V lab onto this Host.

Since my goal is to manage as much as possible through PowerShell, my current setup will run into the following problem: I can remote into my lab host, but due to single-hop remoting, it is not recommended to daisy chain sessions.

In case you DO want this, you can look at the following articles that will give you more insight on multihop remoting. A small insight on what is required:

The Problem

Today I ran into something simple….but I just wanted to get it solved through PowerShell and make the solution re-usable.

We had found a machine in Active Directory which didn’t turn up in the physical inventory check… And worse of all, the machine was active!

The Script

This script simply checks if machines with a specific name [or in a specific OU] is online at the moment. If it’s online, it will try and figure out who’s actually logged on to the machine.

The Problem

A customer required the inventory of product keys for various products on all network systems. I had used a tool which scanned all machines and nicely produced a .csv file for each machine it had scanned.

Ideally I wanted to have a single .csv file which I could then filter against, either using Excel or PowerShell.

The Function

Check the examples notes on how to use the function.