I needed to run some simple tasks from a PowerShell session on a remote Windows computer. I thought this would be no problem – just fire up the PowerShell container that Microsoft provides and start a remote session but of course it is never that easy. I will be using […]
Read moreThese steps allow you to connect to Exchange Online using PowerShell inside a Docker container from a Linux host. in my example I am connecting to Exchange Online from Ubuntu 21.04. For the Docker container image I am using the official Azure PowerShell container from Microsoft (mcr.microsoft.com/azure-powershell). The account I […]
Read moreThese steps will configure IPv6 on a network adapter using Powershell. Adding an IPv6 address Make sure Powershell is launched with Administrator permissions. Get the ifIndex for the network adapter that you want to configure the IPv6 address on: In this case we would like to add the IPv6 settings […]
Read morePowershell can be used to search for content (with regex support) for files in a path by using Select-String: The output of the command looks like this for any results:
Read moreThe PowerShell cmdlet Get-ADComputer can be used to retrieve the details for a computer account. You can use a filter if required. The usage of this cmdlet is like this: If no filter property is provided you will be prompted for the filter when running this cmdlet. Examples Some examples […]
Read moreTo test a users credentials you can start a process using Start-Process with the -Credential flag. As an example, to start cmd.exe and prompt for the username and password:
Read moreSome load balancers may require you to create a loopback interface on a Windows server or servers. The loopback device then gets the load balanced IP added to it; that IP is used for the inbound load balanced connections. The loopback adapter is used so that no ARP replies are […]
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