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Moving to a Windows Phone–Part 3–The Move Over

As many of you will know, I engaged in a contest to get you all to click, click, and click . If enough of you clicked, the story was that Microsoft would give me a new Windows Phone. I accepted that challenge and promised that in return for the phone...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2013 10:32 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: iPhone, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Nokia, replacing an iPhone, Lumia 820

Sometimes Things On the Internet are NOT TRUE

Randy Cassingham runs a blog site offering a weekly newsletter entitled: This Is True . I’ve been a subscriber for many years have have enjoyed his allegedly true tales. His home page claims his newsletter reports ‘bizarre-but- true news items from legitimate...

Published Mon, Mar 25 2013 11:46 AM by Under The Stairs

Unified Remote Access and Deployment

I’ve just finished looking at a recently published book: Windows Server 2010 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment written by Erez Ben-Ari and Bala Natarajan. Erez has written several books related to this subject for Packt and is a PSS engineer...

Published Mon, Mar 25 2013 5:39 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Unified Remote Access, URA

Moving to a Windows Phone–Part 2

As I recently posted, I’ve won a Nokia Lumia 820 from our good friends at Microsoft – now I have to use it (for at least 3 months). As I flew back home yesterday from a training gig, I pondered on what I actually needed in a phone. I’d had the iPhone...

Published Thu, Mar 21 2013 4:12 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Windows Phone

Moving to a Windows Phone–Part 1

As many readers of this blog have noticed, I was issued and have accepted a challenge from Microsoft. Microsoft UK is promoting ways for IT Pros to get copies of Windows Server and System Center. Their challenge was to get people to...

Published Mon, Mar 18 2013 11:16 AM by Under The Stairs

Finding Office 365 Cmdlets–It shouldn’t be this hard

I’m working on some courseware for Office 365, Microsoft’s online office product. I have a small business subscription ( www.reskit.net , for example is the hosted SharePoint external facing site), and you can get me at tfl@reskit.net . I love the product...

Published Sat, Mar 09 2013 6:16 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Office 365, Office 365 cmdlets

WMI Explorer–Where’s It Gone–A Temporary Solution

As a trainer, teaching PowerShell, I use WMI Explorer heavily. For those who may be unfamiliar, this is a PowerShell script that displays information about WMI on a system. Written by MOW, a PowerShell MVP, it is for me the best tool I can find for displaying...

Published Sat, Mar 02 2013 3:27 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: WMI, WMI Explorer, WMI Training, PowerShell WMI explorer, WMI PowerShell Script

Help Send Me To Teched?

Microsoft has given the UK MVPs a challenge – and I love a challenge. They, Microsoft UK, is hoping you’ll take a look at System Centre and Windows Server. They have three sets of goodies for you: An eval copy of System Center – software to enable private...

Published Wed, Feb 27 2013 12:29 PM by Under The Stairs

MSDN/TechNet Library–The Classic Skin is No More

For those of you who use the MSDN and TechNet library content, you may have noticed that Microsoft has changed the UI of these subsites: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library and http://technet.microsoft/com/library . . These are essentially the same site...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2013 7:03 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: MSDN, TechNet, Community Content, MS fails to listen to users (again), MSDN Library, TechNet Library

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices–A book by Ed Wilson

Ed Wilson, aka Microsoft’s The Scripting Guy, has written a number of PowerShell books (for MS Press). This book, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices , is one I’ve been slowly reading through. Although this book is a couple of years old, the advice...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2013 6:13 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, book, The Scripting Guy, PowerShell Best Practices, Ed Wilson

PowerShell Remoting – The Double Hop Problem And A Solution

I’ve been doing quite a bit of work lately with remoting – running scripts and script blocks on other machines. As part of my series on developing a Hyper-V VM lab, I’ve scripted the installation and configuration of a mini network. One of the patterns...

Published Sun, Feb 10 2013 6:41 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell V3, Setting up CredSSP with PowerShell V3, CredSSP

Working with Base64 Strings in PowerShell

Base64 is an encoding method that enables transfer of arbitrary binary data through restrictive networks. The most obvious, to me anyway, case of this is email. The SMTP protocol was designed to transfer 7-bit (aka ASCII) characters. If you want to transmit...

Published Thu, Feb 07 2013 1:12 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, PowerShell V3, ETS, Base64, Extensible Type System

Building A Hyper-V Test Lab on Windows 8 – Part 5 Configuring DC1

Introduction This the fifth part in a multi-part set of articles on building a test lab with Hyper-V and PowerShell. See the following prior articles in this series. The purpose of these scripts/articles Creating a reference VHDX Creating Virtual Machines...

Published Mon, Feb 04 2013 7:26 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, scripts, script, Hyper-V, PowerShell V3, Deployment Scripts

Building A Hyper-V Test Lab on Windows 8 – Part 4 Creating a DC

Introduction This the fourth part in a multi-part set of articles on building a test lab with Hyper-V and PowerShell. See the following prior articles in this series. The purpose of these scripts/articles: http://www.tfl09.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/building...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2013 9:08 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Hyper-V, PowerShell V3, Deployment Scripts

Improving PowerShell with 3rd party Modules

PowerShell is an awesome product with amazing potential. But as we al know, the product team can not do everything and neither can the various product teams at Microsoft. As has been quite evident since Monad first peeked it’s head outside Redmond, the...

Published Tue, Jan 22 2013 4:24 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, module, third-party, add-on

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