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Pre-load awesome background images for Microsoft Teams Virtual Background using PowerShell
Microsoft Teams officially rolled out Virtual Backgrounds back in March, around the time COVID-19 went crazy in the United States. With COVID-19 came a slew of people working from home,...
How to check Exchange Online Distribution List activity over 30, 60, 90+ days?
All growing and/or large organizations will experience this. We have all of these Distribution Lists, but does anyone even use them or know why they were created 5, 10, 15...
Tracking and Automating Business Processes
As businesses grow, it becomes challenging to keep up with business processes. To keep up with a constant flow of tasks associated with these processes, you need to track them,...
Using PowerShell with RESTful API's - BirdDogHR API Module
In the last few months at work, we have been concentrating on integrating different cloud-hosted systems with our on-premise systems. Integration usually means using some ETL Tool to interact with...
Building a Desired State Configuration (DSC) Lab
Recently I presenting at the Indianapolis PowerShell User Group and talked about Desired State Configuration. The presentation was 100% demonstrations, and I decided it would be a good idea to......
PowerShell: Check for user accounts running Windows Services
Recently I worked with a client to validate that if a user account were to be disabled that it wasn't going to break any of their currently running applications. You...
GriffinMonitor Module v1.5 - Additional Functionality
This evening I've decided to add additional functionality to the GriffinMonitor Module. I noticed that I am filling up my storage on my lab server fairly quickly. With that in...
Exploring Windows Management Framework 5.0 May 2014 Preview
The Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview was released in early April, and an update to it was posted during Microsoft TechEd in May. Some major things are changing with PowerShell;...
Monitoring Storage Pool Health - GriffinMonitor Module
There have been times in the past (more than I like to remember) where I've had a hard drive fail, a raid 5 fail, and eventually I am sure I'll...
PowerShell Summit Round Up
I've been fairly distant from my blog for quite a few months... work has been very busy and preparing for the PowerShell Summit really took quite a bit of time....
PowerShell Summit: PowerShell Makes SharePoint oh so Magical - PowerPoint
My second session of the PowerShell Summit 2014 covered Automating the installation of SharePoint 2013 SP1 using multiple community based tools. Once we installed SharePoint we started exploring how...
PowerShell Summit: PowerCLI - Automating Your VMware Environment Reporting - PowerPoint
This morning I presenting PowerCLI - Automating Your VMware Environment Reporting at the PowerShell Summit 2014. Below is the PowerPoint that was used during this presentation, with additional slides...
IndyPoSh and Indy VMUG PowerShell Basics v3 and v4
Hello everyone! Long time no post; more details surrounding that will be coming! Tonight I would like to share the PowerPoint I used for the IndyPoSh/Indy VMUG presentation I presented...
Get Most Used Document Libraries and Lists in SharePoint
Lately I have been putting a lot of my time into developing useful PowerShell scripts for managing Windows environments. While working on these scripts I've developed some really cool 1-liner...
PowerShell One Liner for Count of all Documents in SharePoint 2010 Farm
Last week I had a client reach out to me, asking for a count of all documents in their SharePoint 2010 internal farm. They were planning on implementing Metalogix StoragePoint...
IndyVMUG Conference PowerCLI - Community Session Slides
Today I presented Intro to PowerCLI at the IndyVMUG Conference. As promised I am posting the PowerPoint slides that were used during that presentation. This session covered the basics you...
PowerShell v4 Desired State Configuration Deep Dive
During my time at Microsoft TechEd many new things were announced. My all time favorite announcement was PowerShell v4. There are many great things coming out with PowerShell v4, things...
PowerShell v4 Ping and Telnet Replacement
**Note: Article Written on Server 2012 R2 Preview Build, the functionality may change when released.** ** meeting and I was tasked with getting the survey for our meetings setup. I did not want to follow the......
Storage Space Virtual Disk Disconnected on Restart
So I recently had to rebuild my Server 2012 virtual server. I had storage spaces setup and after I finished the install the Virtual Disk was not mounted. I realized...
Backup Linux using PowerShell
As a follow up to [Backups are Important! Here is How I do it!](http://mattblogsit.com/oob/backups-are-important-here-is-how-i-do-it "Backups are Important! Here is How I do it!") I decided I should...
Setting up a HomeGroup with Windows 8
While recently blogging about using my Surface to share media from my desktop to my Xbox it occurred to me. Some people may not know how to setup a HomeGroup, and...
#60Days2MCSE I Failed
Today is the day that I was hoping to call myself an MCSE, I am thrilled to hear that some who have taken the challenge have completed it and I...
#60Days2MCSE Challenge – Week 6 Update
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#60Days2MCSE Challenge – The Plan – The Resources
On April 15th **[@MichaelBender](http://twitter.com/#/MichaelBender)** challenged the readers of MS Learning’s **[Born To Learn](http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/)** blog. The challenge is to complete...
Making a Windows 8 Slate
Back when Windows 8 was shown off at the Developers conference someone I work with mentioned it in a meeting, I went into depth about what I knew about it...
How to Install Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit As A Virtual Machine
Tonight Windows 8 was released (LEGALLY) at least the Developer Preview edition was! You are able to get your own copy at [http://dev.windows.com/](http://dev.windows.com/). I have an interest in...