About 2 years ago, at MMS 2017 Michael Niehaus showed a proof of concept, it was an extension to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. The idea was to replace the VB code with PowerShell. […]
OS Deployment – PowerShell Deployment Extension for MDT
Nice to Know – Learn PowerShell from Windows Admin Center
Windows Admin Center is great, it is actually fantastic to be honest. I have been working with it for a long time and in one of the latest releases the have added […]
PowerShell is King – Test-NetConnection is annoying, gives me warnings, I don’t want that
During a conversation someone told me that Test-NetConnection is kind of annoying when scanning for systems and some of them are not online, or missing from DNS or something like that. And […]
Nice to Know – Mass upgrading Windows 10 Using PowerShell
Someone asked med a while back – Is it possible to upgrade our Windows 7,8,8.1 and unsupported Windows 10 machines to a supported version of Windows 10 without a deployment solution? ….(thinking) […]
PowerShell is King – A Data Deduplication script that runs the Optimization,Garbage Collection and Scrubbing in a single sweep, including progress
I use Windows Server 2016 on all my lab machines, therefore I also use Data Deduplication to save space. But I don’t run it in the background, i run it basically when […]
PowerShell is King – New-VIARandomPassword
Long time ago i needed a function that creates random passwords that can be used when creating accounts, we have been using this for a long time, a few minutes ago Johan […]
PowerShell is King – Building a Reference Image Factory (v 3.2)
The Image Factory has been re-worked and updated. It also has moved to GitHub https://github.com/DeploymentBunny/ImageFactoryV3ForHyper-V/ Concept and flow The idea is the same, we use MDT, create refimages task sequences that runs […]
PowerShell is King – Find VM Configuration files (.vmcx) that have not been imported/registered
Sometime you need to move a large number of VMs, or you need to recover from a broken hyper-v host, or similar. If you have a few VM’s, that will be easy, […]
