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PowerShell: Email me when Disk Space is running low on my Windows Servers (w/ SQL Server Integration)

Microsoft Geek October 31, 2019 No Comments

Have you ever ran into a situation where your disk space on your Windows Server were running low and you had to constantly remote into the server to check the…

Exchange Server 2010 Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell 101

How to Expand the Recipient Scope in Exchange 2010/2013

Microsoft Geek October 31, 2019 No Comments

You may find yourself in a situation where you have Exchange in a multi-domain environment, that when your running commands like get-mailbox it’s not displaying mailboxes across all the domains.…

Hyper-V PowerShell 101 Virtualization 101

Create and Configure Virtual Machine with PowerShell

Microsoft Geek September 6, 2019 No Comments

Create New Virtual Machine Let’s go to create the new virtual machine. Type new-vm -vmname test -memorystartupbytes 1GB Create Virtual Hard Drive new-vhd -path “C:\users\Public\Documents\Hyper-v\Virtual Hard Disks\test.vhdx” -sizebytes 20GB -fixed…

Active Directory 101

Document Active Directory using AD Topology Diagrammer

Microsoft Geek September 6, 2019 No Comments

I found the free Active Directory Topology Diagrammer (ADTD) tool which you can download it here. As stated in Microsoft’s description on the tool download page, ADTD connects to the…

Group Policy 101 Windows Server 2016

Configure Group Policy to deploy updates using WSUS 2016

Microsoft Geek September 6, 2019 No Comments

One of the first steps you will need to take during the initial configuration of a WSUS Server is to establish communication between WSUS Server and clients. As clients (endpoints)…

Windows Server 2016

The initial configuration of WSUS 2016

Microsoft Geek September 6, 2019 No Comments

After the WSUS installation has been completed on Windows Server 2016, you are ready to configure the initial WSUS settings. This is a necessary step that you can not skip…

General IT Stuff

PowerShell: Disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration

Microsoft Geek August 28, 2019 No Comments

Have you ever tried to get on the Internet on a Windows Server to download apps or access any web portal to configure an application and the IE ESC gets…

General IT Stuff Windows 10

How to Install Microsoft’s New Windows Terminal

Microsoft Geek August 8, 2019 No Comments

Check this out… ==================== First you will need to download Chocolatey ( https://chocolatey.org/ the package manager for Windows – Software Management Automation ). ***Before you start, make sure you have…

Virtualization 101 VMware

How to Deploy OVA / OVF Template Using VMware vSphere Desktop Client

Microsoft Geek June 17, 2019 No Comments

Deploy OVF Template Note: The current version of vCenter in the example below is version 5.5. To deploy an OVF template, open the vSphere Desktop Client. On the top-left, click…

General IT Stuff

DevOps Foundation Certification

Microsoft Geek June 12, 2019 No Comments

Feels really good getting this certification, it helps validate what I have been doing for the past year or so within DevOps. Description: The DevOps Foundation Certification course is an…

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PowerShell: Email me when Disk Space is running low on my Windows Servers (w/ SQL Server Integration)

How to Expand the Recipient Scope in Exchange 2010/2013

Create and Configure Virtual Machine with PowerShell

Document Active Directory using AD Topology Diagrammer

Configure Group Policy to deploy updates using WSUS 2016

The initial configuration of WSUS 2016

PowerShell: Disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration

How to Install Microsoft’s New Windows Terminal

How to Deploy OVA / OVF Template Using VMware vSphere Desktop Client

DevOps Foundation Certification

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