Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Identifying read-only domain controllers

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
11 Mar, 2014
- Active directory
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When you get a list of domain controllers using the AD module, one of the properties each DC has is the IsReadOnly property.

#PSTip How to disable DNS registration with PowerShell

Emin Atac
2 Min To Read
07 Mar, 2014
- Tips and tricks
- Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Today, a colleague in the network team asked if we could disable the default DNS registration flag (shown below) because our computers are not allowed to update DNS servers directly.

#PSTip GitHub PowerShell syntax highlighting in Markdown

Carlos Perez
2 Min To Read
06 Mar, 2014
- Tips and tricks

GitHub, a service for hosting development projects that can be written in many programing and scripting languages has its own extensions to the popular Markdown style.

#PSTip Installing and setting up AWS PowerShell Tools

Ravikanth C
2 Min To Read
05 Mar, 2014
- Aws
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. I have been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and for me the default management tool is their PowerShell module.

#PSTip Restarting PowerShell as an administrator

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
04 Mar, 2014
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. I bet this sounds familiar to you. You start working in the PowerShell console or in the ISE, and then at one point you figure out that a command you’re executing fails because your session is not …

#PSTip Setting Hyper-V client settings

Shay Levy
3 Min To Read
03 Mar, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. When working with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 and higher, you can set various Hyper-V host settings via the Hyper-V Settings dialog.

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