I recently got a question on Twitter if I could create a PowerShell script to download files from TechNet Edge. I thought this would be useful for many other people as well, so I have spent some time this weekend working on this script. I wanted to make the script as generic and re-usable as [...]

System Center Virtual Machine Manager has since the beginning had excellent automation capabilities in form of Windows PowerShell. In fact, everything that is performed in the SC VMM Console generates a PowerShell command which is being invoked as a job. A very useful feature in the SC VMM Console is the “View Script” button, which [...]

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The Microsoft Scripting Guys is hosting the 2012 Scripting Games April 2 – April 13 2012. The Scripting Games started out several years ago as a scripting competition based on VBScript. After the introduction of Windows PowerShell the Scripting Games did both a VBScript and a PowerShell track for a few years, until last year [...]

AntiAffinityClassNames is a cluster group property in Windows Failover Clustering used to identify cluster groups that should not be hosted on the same node. When working with clustered Hyper-V environments there is a 1:1 relationship between a cluster group and a virtual machine, and thus we can configure Anti-Affinity for virtual machines using the AntiAffinityClassNames [...]

On a default Windows installation there is a number of Windows services and scheduled tasks. These are configured to run with a specified set of credentials like LocalSystem, LocalService or NetworkService. New services is typically created when installing applications, which in a domain environment often require a domain account configured as the run as account. [...]

On January 13th – 14th the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) was arranged in Oslo, Norway for the first time. The goal for the conference is creating a premier event for all IT-professionals in the Nordics, and the first edition of NIC was a great success with a number of excellent speakers.   Demos, slides and [...]

On January 1st last year I was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for my contributions in the PowerShell community. The MVP Award is valid for 1 year, and is based on the contributions for the past year. On January 1st this year I was re-awarded for my 2nd year as an MVP: Dear Jan Egil [...]

For a Windows administrator, working with network adapters is a common task. A common approach many companies use is configuring servers with static IP addresses (IPv4) and clients using DHCP. The IP address is just one of many properties of a network adapter, as we also have properties like subnet mask, default gateway, DNS server [...]

The Test-Connection cmdlet in Windows PowerShell was introduced in version 2.0, with the purpose of sending ICMP echo request packets ("pings") to one or more computers as stated in the cmdlet`s documentation. The cmdlet has a number of useful parameters, for example –Count to specify the number of request packets to send (the default is [...]