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Using Pester for Infrastructure testing

robert — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:37:32 +0200

Recently the company I am working at was running into performance issues which became a pain to sort out as it was so sporadic (lasted like 5 mins max every time), but when it happened it affected the entire company.

DuPSUG Basics - Deux

robert — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:10:59 +0200

Today was another great day with other PowerShell enthousiasts where I got to share some tricks of the trade. During DuPSUG’s second Basics event, I was once again able to provide a session, this time about “Improving your Scripts”. I had a blast and I hope others did too and as promised I’ve made my code available on GitHub on the general DuPSUG GitHub. I’d like to thank all the people attending today’s session for your time and patience, all other speakers for sharing their time, code and tricks and of course @EJHeeres for arranging the event perfectly.

Youve got the Power!! plan….

robert — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:17:13 +0200

Today I was playing around on some machines on which I noticed the Power Plans were set incorrect, Balanced on a server :'( Now of course I can do this manually, or I can use PowerShell instead! Tools not scripts Since I want to use this more often and want to create my own “toolbelt” [aka module with common tools], I’ve decided to make the solution as advanced functions, not just scripts.

Invoke-Command wrapper function

robert — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:00:52 +0200

A quick post this time about something that might be helpful for others, something that saves me from typing too much 🙂 I’ve noticed over the last week that I’ve been doing various remoting commands through Invoke-Command to the same machines, which require additional credentials to access. Why re-type something when you can automate it 🙂 Before I used to have to do the following: 1 2 3 4 5 $SCCMServers = 'CM01.

SCCM: Code breakdown - Deploy Application to Device Collection

robert — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:00:22 +0200

As you might have noticed, I’m having fun playing around with SCCM lately and have really noticed that PowerShell is king here. While the application has great potential, I personally feel that the GUI is lacking functionality which you can only obtain through PowerShell. Of course this isn’t a problem, merely a challenge in some cases, but I feel that they could’ve stepped up a bit. It at least explains why I see so many SCCM admins playing around with PowerShell.

Script Dumpster: Setting Proxy server settings

robert — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:45:04 +0200

OK, so I’m at my new job and for the first time in years, I have to deal with proxy servers again… Since I’m used to having full admin rights on my machine and unrestricted internet, this was somewhat of a shock, while perfect for my productivity as well 😛 Unfortunately for them, I have since been informed that a special IT proxy is available, which provides this access, hence me being able to update my site again 🙂

VM Lab - Switch it up

robert — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:00:33 +0200

Back again for another part in my VM Lab series. So far I’ve created the folder structure which we will use to store our ISO files, VHD files [including template VHDs and Unattend.xml files] and VM’s. In order to manipulate the ReadOnly status of various files [such as the template VHD’s and Unattend.xml files], I’ve provided simple functions which will assist us. Now we need to make sure that the final piece of the infrastructure is ready: the Hyper-V VM Switches.