Automation

If you are using PowerShell scripts to automate tasks in your environment, sooner or later, there's a good chance that you will need to deal with elevating privileges to access resources that require a different set of credentials than those being used to run the script. For example, you might need to access a file… Read More

PowerShell scripts can use a lot of resources. And that can be a problem if you need to run a script on a production server without impacting performance.

Manipulate PowerShell object output using calculated properties.

In the latest preview version of Windows Package Manager, you can install Microsoft Store apps from the command line.

Here is how to create and run Puppet Bolt tasks.

Puppet Bolt tasks are scripts that you can run on Linux or Windows systems. A task contains a script, completely unmodified, written in any language supported by the remote system on which the task will run.

PowerShell 7 (PS7) is based on .NET Core 3.0 and Microsoft is aiming to provide much greater compatibility with Windows PowerShell modules, as much as 90 percent.

In this post, I will explain how you can implement disaster recovery failover for an application that has been built on Azure’s App Services and Azure SQL. Business Continuity One of the great things about Azure is how easy it can be to solve some of the old business & technology challenges, especially if you… Read More

WorkSpace One, vSphere, Cloud Management are the hot buzzwords leaving VMworld and Mike breaks down the latest on these products following the conference in Las Vegas.

he VMworld 2018 Day 2 keynote took a different turn than the previous day but was still packed with updates and announcements.

VMWorld is happening this week and if you missed the action from day one, here's a brief summary of everything that was announced.

Let's discuss the Auto-Shutdown settings in the properties of an Azure virtual machine, how to configure them, and whether you should use this feature or not.

In today's Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to get started with the Chocolatey package manager for Windows.

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

In this “how to” post, Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure Automation to scale up (increase) or scale down (decrease) the size of an Azure virtual machine.