by Edward van Biljon | Dec 6, 2023 | PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
If you are like me and work 99% of the time in PowerShell, you always want to do things in PowerShell. This includes adding roles/features, extracting information or simply just opening stuff. I use Telnet a lot, comes in very handy when you checking email servers and...
by Edward van Biljon | Nov 23, 2023 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019, PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
I put together a simple script that will add an Accepted Domain in Exchange 2019 from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) instead of using the GUI. The script does require manual input of the following fields: DomainName – This is the domain you want to add to...
by Edward van Biljon | Nov 19, 2023 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
Graphical User interfaces (GUI) are nice but I also prefer working in PowerShell as you can just get so much more info than the GUI. Recently I was working with groups and it was a bit of a pain to keep having to open the window in Active Directory Users and Computers...
by Edward van Biljon | Nov 18, 2023 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
When running installations, some systems are set to lock after a certain period of inactivity even though the installation is running in the background. Recently I was testing CIS Group Policy policies and my labs kept locking and it becomes frustrating to keep having...
by Edward van Biljon | Nov 14, 2023 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
As an Admin, looking at Event Viewer becomes a normal thing, especially when you have issues or simply looking for intrusion like in my case where events are written to the different logs. To manually go through hundreds of thousands of logs is time consuming so I...
by Edward van Biljon | Nov 6, 2023 | PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
PowerShell has the ability to perform so many functions, from WMI queries to fetching information etc. On Windows Server Core, whether it is Windows Server 2022, 2019 2016, because many of the GUI features are not available, you cannot just open a browser to do...
