If you haven’t caught the PowerShell bug yet, NOW IS THE TIME! Here are 5 Basic PowerShell commands to get you started. Get-help Like the man command in UNIX, Get-Help in PowerShell contains helpful information about every cmdlet in PowerShell. Not only does the help feature contain information, but it also contains examples on how to [...]

Since getting my job with Microsoft, I’ve been asked numerous times about how I did it.  What’s the secret? How did I get noticed?  Because of this, I decided to write about my interviewing experience with Microsoft.  Hopefully it might help someone else in the future. How did you get noticed? I applied.  That’s it.  [...]

Ever want to send an email with PowerShell?  Well now you can! Simply add the code below to the end of a PowerShell script.  PowerShell will then use the Net.Mail.SmtpClient object to send the email. That’s it! Don’t forget to but in your appropriate information. [...]

Excuse me, do you have the time?  Well you better if you are a Active Directory administrator.  Next to DNS, time synchronization is one of the most important dependency of Active Directory.  By default, Active Directory will tolerate a plus or minus of five minutes between the clocks of your network.  If the time exceeds [...]

Domo arigato, Mr. Robocopy? Ok. I know that,s a bad play on words, but in today’s post I want to cover a tool that is often forgotten- Robocopy. Recently I needed to copy over 50,000 folders from an old file server that was getting decommissioned. On top of that, I needed to make sure all [...]