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Why is this website so fast?
tom torggler
I have recently updated our website and have learned a few things while doing so.
So long, 2020
tom torggler
Goodbye 2020! What a year it has been.
Convert PowerShell Help to a Website
tom torggler
How to use the platyPS PowerShell module to convert comment-based help to markdown and easily host it on GitHub pages.
Using PowerShell and Azure Cognitive Services to convert text to speech
tom torggler
In one of our recent Microsoft Teams projects I needed some voice prompts for a customer service call queue.
Configuring policy-based QoS for Teams with Intune
tom torggler
Traditional Active Directory with group policy has no place in the big-picture of the modern workplace, so we need a novel solution to apply policy-based QoS to our Teams clients.
Send Check Point Logs to Azure Sentinel (beta)
tom torggler
Azure Sentinel is Microsoft’s new, cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) tool. In my simplistic point-of-view it is a security-focused, machine-learning-driven add-on for Log Analytics (OMS). Today we will be looking into ingesting Check Point Firewall logs into Log Analytics.
Create a SAS token for AzCopy
tom torggler
I’ve spent way too much time trying to figure this out, so here goes a quick note that hopefully saves someone a minute.
ntSystemsPSDrive: a SHiPS drive for the blog
tom torggler
Some time ago I wrote a post about Consuming ntSystems with PowerShell. It boils down to this: we have a json-based API that is available via https://ntsystems.it/api/v1/ and returns json elements for posts and pages on the blog. For more information check out the linked post. Then I wanted play around with the SHiPS module for some time and finally got around to doing it this past weekend. Now I’m happy to be sharing another method do consume ntSystems with PowerShell: It can be mounted as PSDrive.
Powershell Script to enable specific Office 365 Service
daniel nitz
Currently I’m in an Exchange Migration project to migrate all mailboxes from Exchange onPremise to Exchange Online. Yeah.. of course.. killing Exchange onPrem… again :)
Windows Server 2019 and RADIUS
tom torggler
First of all, happy new year :) Today we will have a quick look at Windows Server 2019, more specifically the Network Policy Server role.
Sending events to Splunk's HTTP Event Collector with PowerShell
tom torggler
Using Invoke-RestMethod to send events to a Splunk instance.
lost & found: FFmpeg and Skype4B, Security Baseline for RS5
tom torggler
A quick edition of lost & found on how to use FFmpeg on WSL to create audio files that can be used for Skype for Business announcements. And an observation about the recently published security baseline for Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019.
Remote EMS over IPMI serial-over-lan
tom torggler
Using standards-based IPMI to get some sort of out-of-band management for AudioCodes’ embedded server modules.
Network assessment with policy-based QoS and iperf3
tom torggler
In Skype for Business and, more recently, Teams deployments, a solid network and a good knowledge of it are fundamentally important.
Exchange Hybrid Observations
tom torggler
Like I did here with Skype for Business, I’m collecting some observations and useful snippets about Exchange in hybrid environments.
lost & found: Updates and no more tracking on ntSystems.it
tom torggler
I’ve recently updated the sources of the blog and moved to the gem-based version of the minima theme. This should make the site easier to maintain in the future.
Azure Functions: Building a Telegram Bot with PowerShell 2
tom torggler
Welcome back to the second part of our little fun experiment with Telegram and Azure Functions. In the first part we created the function app and the bot, now let’s hook them up.
Azure Functions: Building a Telegram Bot with PowerShell 1
tom torggler
Today I’ve got a fun one, we’re going to use Azure Functions to build a Telegram Bot with PowerShell. Sounds interesting? Well here we go. Before diving into the technical details, lets have a quick overview of what we’re trying to do.
lost & found: ntSystems Onion Service, Cloudflare DNS
tom torggler
It’s Friday and here’s another edition of lost & found.
Skype for Business Hybrid Observations
tom torggler
A collection of information about Skype for Business in hybrid environments.
Azure AD Connect: Failed to load configuration information
tom torggler
When upgrading Azure AD Connect (ADSync), the wizard fails with the error: “Failed to load configuration information from primary ADFS server”.
Tunneling SSH through Tor
tom torggler
I’ve been using Onion Services aka. Hidden Services to connect to remote machines for some time now. Tor clients can connect to such services through the Tor network, there is no need to know the IP address of the destination machine, likewise there is no need to configure inbound port mappings or firewall rules.
Testing CoinHive
tom torggler
I’ve recently stumbled upon coinhive and with all the recent fuzz about crypto currencies, I decided to have a look at it. So what’s that all about?
The Invisible Internet Project and WSL
tom torggler
The Windows Subsystem for Linux can be used to run quite a few interesting things on Windows, one of them is the Invisible Internet Project or i2p.
PowerShell and Variable References
tom torggler
I’ve come across an interesting behavior (or feature) of PowerShell the other day. As I don’t really understand what’s going on, I decided to write it up, maybe someone out there can help explaining this.
Jekyll on WSL
tom torggler
Today we are looking at running Jekyll on WSL or Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
Keeping track of PowerShellCore releases on GitHub
tom torggler
I’ve been using PowerShell Core on my MacBook for a while now. As the code is still in its early stages, there’s no way of managing/updating the software one is running, at least none that I would be aware of. I did miss some updates and, as a result, had problems with Visual Studio Code. So I’ve put together a quick function that checks the latest release on GitHub and can conveniently be put into my $PROFILE
.
Jekyll Fun: Consuming ntSystems with PowerShell
tom torggler
As you might have read before, our little blog is powered by Jekyll. Well I stumbled over the jsonify
filter the other day, and so I built a little “kind-of” API :) Sound interesting? Read on.
My takeaways from MS Tech Summit
tom torggler
Daniel and I have attended the Microsoft Tech Summit in Milan earlier this week. Overall it was a pretty good event, especially taking into account that it was free. The keynote was quite interesting, so much so, that I thought I’d share my takeaways.
Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner
daniel nitz
Today I was super excited about the first tests with the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner. Sometimes calculating the Bandwidth, Storage, local infrastructure needed for Site Recovery can be very tricky. Therefore, I’m happy that Microsoft released a helpful tool to get the right information needed.
Get Going with Go!
tom torggler
Everyone is talking about Go these days so I decided to have a look at it and see what it could do for me.
Get started with Azure ARM Templates
daniel nitz
To start with the deployment using Azure ARM Templates is quite easy. A first step can be to deploy an Azure SQL Database. But let’s start with a bit of background information:
Disable Azure Backup Protection for a VM with Azure PowerShell
daniel nitz
My Azure credits burn faster than expected :) So I decided to remove some VM’s and Backup that I used for a customer’s demonstration. Since I don’t use the Azure Portal for configuration anymore, I fired up Powershell and did the Job. With the following commands, I show you how to stop the Backup for a Virtual Machine and delete the associated Recovery Points.
Migrating from BlogEngine to GitHub Pages: Fixing the links
tom torggler
In this episode of our little series on migration we are having a look at the URL structure of Jekyll and some of the less visible stuff that was associated with the old ntSystems.
Introducing: TAK
tom torggler
Over the years I did create, find, copy, paste, quite a few lines of PowerShell code. Some of which I’m turning into re-usable functions and collecting in a module, creatively called “Tom’s Admin Kit” or TAK. I hope you find it useful. I try to credit the sources for the stuff that I just copied off of the interwebs, even though I don’t actually remember all of them.
AzureStack POC TP2 on VMware
tom torggler
I’ve been trying to make the Azure Stack Proof-of-Concept (Preview 2) run on VMware and here is what I found.
Migrating from BlogEngine to GitHub Pages: BlogML to Markdown
tom torggler
As promised here, I’m sharing the first part of our migration process from BlogEngine to GitHub Pages. A major part is, obviously, the migration of the content of the blog itself.
Welcome to our new blog!
tom torggler
This site has been running on Azure Web Sites for some time. As we are doing this for fun and are not making any money with the site (see any ad?) we had to use the “Shared” pricing tier which was economically acceptable but from a performance and feature point-of-view, well, not great. We used Cloudflare to get some caching and enable stuff like https and IPv6 for the site and it was OK :) Then came…
PowerShell on macOS
tom torggler
Just sharing some quick notes on how to run PowerShell (and dotnet core) on macOS Sierra.
Deploying Labs using Azure Resource Manager
tom torggler
I did a demo of Cisco CSR 1000v on Azure the other day and the easy deployment of a small test-network was part of that demo.
Veeam direct restore to Azure
Lync SDN API and Cisco WLC
Some days ago I had the chance to test Cisco’s Wireless LAN Controllers with the Lync Software Defined Networking (SDN) API.
Azure Backup - Part Three
lost & found: Nano Server, GitHub, PSGallery, Pester
Azure Storage Explorer, the easy way to manage your storage
Azure Backup - Part Two
Azure Backup - Part One
Hyper-Convergence with Nano Server: Part 3
Hyper-Convergence with Nano Server: Part 2
Azure File Services
Re-register Azure MFA Server
Hyper-Convergence with Nano Server: Part 1
In this post I’m walking through the steps creating the images for my Nano Servers and then deploying them. Like in this post, I’ll use WDS for the deployment, so some steps might already be familiar.
Install Office Web Apps Server 2013 on Server 2012 R2
Hyper-Convergence with Nano Server: Intro
lost & found: Onyx
Happy holidays and some numbers
lost & found: OpenLiveWriter, RackHD, EHC, diskspd
Domain-joining the vCenter Server Appliance 6
Azure Backup: Restore
Installing Nano Server using WDS and PxE
lost & found: TP4, TH2, Win32-OpenSSH, VS Code
Getting started with vCenter Server Appliance 6
Netscaler as ADFS Proxy
Azure Backup
Getting started with OSX
Moving on!
How to prepare for Exchange 2013 PF migration and what the Microsoft Guide doesn’t tell you
netsh trace and the Message Analyzer
Considerations when planning for DirectAccess
WMF 5 Preview: Update is not applicable to your computer
Windows 10 VHD Boot
lost & found: Windows Tech Preview, Delve, Sway and Keybase.io
SCVMM–HyperV Script to reboots VM’s with powershell
Lync 2013 backend on SQL Cluster with mixed authentication mode
Moving to Azure…
NoOp and NAT Traversal
IPv6 im Unternehmen
Work Folders Demo mit Microsoft Azure
ActiveDirectory DisplayName mit Umlauten und AudioCodes ISDN
Vor einigen Tagen bin ich in einem Lync Projekt auf das Problem gestoßen, dass bestimmte Benutzer keine Anrufe in das PSTN (ISDN E1) tätigen konnten. Der Kunde setzt ein AudioCodes Gateway ein, die Syslogs des Gatways sind zur Fehlersuche sehr gut geeignet. Das Gateway bekommt die SIP Signalisierung von Lync sowie die Q.931 Signalisierung aus dem ISDN mit.
App-V and the start menu folder redirection issue
Lync: SIP inter-domain federation with Cisco Unified Presence - 2
Lync: SIP inter-domain federation with Cisco Unified Presence - 1
Lync Conf 2014 Keynote
Exchange 2010 Update-HybridConfiguration
Lync 2013 Hosting Pack v2 and Skype federation
Lync Client certificate warning Exchange Autodiscover
Migration: ntSystems Mail von Aruba nach Office 365
Connect to Office 365 with Powershell
Import Certificate to RD
PAL: Performance Analyse
Windows Azure – Point to Site VPN
CNG Certificates and Lync/ TMG
How to build an UAG 2010 Array for Exchange publishing–Part 2
Connect Sharepoint 2013 with Exchange 2013 to sync tasks
ActiveSync devices ask for authentication
Lync 2013 Survivable Branch Server – Installation
Hyper-V General access denied error
Lync 2013 Survivable Branch Server – Planung
Lync Private Line
date_modified: Invoke-SEFAUtil
Exchange Unified Messaging Sprachauswahl
Lync Server Backup
Outlook Autodiscover and what to do when migrating from Exchange 2010 to 2013
Troubleshooting Sharepoint Error Messages
Lync: Music on Hold / Wartemusik
SIP: Anruf halten
Invoke-SEFAUtil – a PowerShell wrapper function
I had to use SEFAUtil to get some tasks done the other day. As I prefer using PowerShell over just another command line tool, I decided to come up with a quick wrapper function that is intended to make my life a little easier.
Your Windows phone does not support this server version…
Migrating from Exchange 2010 to 2013 – part 5
Web Application Proxy in Windows 2012 R2 preview
Lync and Exchange 2013 OWA integration
Migrating from Exchange 2010 to 2013 – part 4
Exchange 2013, Open Public Folder on Exchange 2010
Configure Exchange 2013 CAS Array with WNLB and enable Kerberos support for OA
Migrating from Exchange 2010 to 2013 – part 3
Exchange 2013 clean install but many MSExchange Common 106 errors
How to build an UAG 2010 Array for Exchange publishing–Part 1
Migrating from Exchange 2010 to 2013 – part 2
Migrating from Exchange 2010 to 2013 – part 1
What’s happening these days…
Joining WiFi before login on Mac OS X 10.8
Patching Office Web Apps Server
Prepare Windows Server 2012 for Lync 2013
Installing Lync 2013 Updates
ActiveSync, ForeFront TMG and AccountLockoutThreshold
Lync 2013 (Client) and LyncDiscoverInternal
Lync 2013 – Installation and Certificates
Lync 2013 – Prepare AD and build Topology
Lync 2013 – Voicemail Escape
Windows Server 2012 – Virtualized Domain Controller
PowerShell v3 Invoke-WebRequest
Microsoft NDES and Cisco IOS – part 2
Microsoft NDES and Cisco IOS – part 1
With digital certificates being the de-facto standard for authentication, a handy enrollment model is key (pun intended). Microsoft included it’s NDES or Network Device Enrollment Service as a Role in Windows 2008, it has been available as add-on for Windows 2003, too.
Get access to a Windows 2012 Server without a password
Sharepoint 2013 change default settings of “Upload Image” Pop-Up
Exchang 2013, Offline OWA
Windows Server 2012 – DirectAccess
Windows 8 – Windows To Go
SharePoint 2013 Search Center – Windows 8
Office 2013 Web Apps
Exchange 2010 and MaxInboundConnectionPerSource
Scheduled Jobs in PowerShell v3
Exchange 2010, Outlook doesn’t show attachments
GAL Photos reloaded–batch import
Server 2008 R2, Disk Management und DiskPart lässt sich nicht starten
My PowerShell Profile
VB.Net PowerShell Script starten
NPS Migration von Server 2003 nach 2008 R2
Automatic IOS configuration backup
Steve Ballmer on Exciting Times–Office 2013
Why am I learning PowerShell? And why do I think you should give it a try, too?
ActiveSync Organization Settings–Mobile Device Management
Passing an array to a {scriptblock}
We are still out there, somewhere…
Wireless Sniffing mit NetMon 3.4
Windows Server 8–Virtualized Domain Controller
Exchange 2010 Send on behalf for distribution Groups
Windows 8 to Go
Forefront TMG 2010 SP2–NLB Kerberos
Windows Server 8 CP–DHCP Server Failover
Wireshark und Windows 8
Windows Server 8 CP–AD Administrative Center
Windows Server 8 CP–Remote Group Policy refresh
Windows Server 8 CP –ServerManager
PowerShell loves WMI – OS Info
PowerShell Implicit Remoting
Exchange 2010 SP2 Installation
Windows PowerShell v3.0 (CTP 2)
Exchange 2010–Restore Mailbox Content
Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging–Cisco Call Manager 8.6
Citrix, Sprache des ICA Client ändern
Windows 8 - Installation in VHD
Windows 8–Developer Preview
Outlook 2003 / Exchange 2010 Probleme beim Öffnen freigegebener Kalender
PowerShell–Rekursiv nach Änderungsdatum sortieren
DigiNotar–nur ein Zufall!?
ESXi–Persistent Scratch Location
Citrix IMA Dienst startet nicht mehr
Citrix XenApp6 Fehler beim starten des Webservice
EX2k10 PST in Archive importieren
Lync Integration in Outlook Web App 2010
Cisco AAA
Cisco AAA–NPS RADIUS Server
One Note–Kleiner Tipp
Subdomain Certificate Enrollment
Installing vSphere PowerCLI
Upgrade Windows Server 2008R2 Sp1 - BlackBerry Monitoring Service startet nicht
Forefront TMG Console – Script Error
RemoteFX
SoftAP - Windows 7 Wireless Access Point
AppV Streaming Server
Create VMWare ESXi Flash Drive
SharePoint–Dienstkonto wechseln, Probleme mit Kerberos
Outlook–gesendete Objekte–Shared Mailbox
TMG–Fehler beim Ausführen von Abfragen im Log
Zertifizierungsstelle verschieben–neuer Servername
Signing PowerShell Scripts
PowerShell Scripts
TMG 2010 unable to authenticate users after reboot
Exchange 2010, change Display Name for outgoing Mails
Zertifizierung
Mail Sensitivity Header Exchange 2010 SP1
Sharepoint 2010, external List, BCS, SQL
Sharepoint Foundation 2010, insufficient SQL permissions
Migration ISA Server 2k4, 2k6 zu TMG, WPAD
Exchange 2010 Pfad einer Mailboxdatenbank ändern
Exchange 2010 SP1 Online Archive in eigene Datenbank verschieben
Exchange 2010 Zertifikat anfordern
Exchange 2010 SAN Zertifikat–Server 2008 PKI
WebDav, IIS7 publishing over ISA Server Part 2
WebDav, IIS7 publishing over ISA Server Part 1
Exchange 2010–Role Based Access Control
Shared Mailboxes und Auto Mapping E14 Sp1
E14 SP1 Import/Export Update
Sharepoint 2010, Fehler in der SQL Datenbank beheben
AppV 4.6–SCCM 2007R2 Streaming Applications
Sharepoint Web Apps lassen sich nicht installieren
AppV 4.6–SCCM 2007R2–Streaming Issue
Sharepoint Foundation Serach, 14
Exchange 2010–Database Restore
Import/Export Mailbox
AppV–Adobe Reader Sequencing Receipe
AppV–Sequencer
Keine Mailzustellung auf Öffentliche Ordner nach Exchange 2010 Upgrade (von Exchange 2k3)
AppV 4.6–Fehler beim Starten
Exchange 2010, w3wp.exe belegt sehr viel RAM
Exchange 2010–GAL Fotos
Sharepoint Foundation 2010, Fehler Web.config, requestFiltering
Upgrade Exchange 2k3 - 2010
Forefront TMG 2010–RSA Authentication Manager 7.1
Apple IPad
Exchange 2010 Entourage Web Services Edition- EWS Attachement Size
Exchange 2010 – Backup
Migration Sharepoint Services v3 zu Sharepoint Foundation 2010
Sharepoint Foundation 2010 Dateien lassen sich nicht öffnen
DistributedCOM Fehler 10016, fehlende Berechtigungen
Windows Virtual PC / interner DHCP Server
ntSystems - Update
Exchange 2010 – SafeList Aggregation
TPM / BitLocker Schlüssel in AD DS speichern
WSUS auf neuen Server verschieben
Buchen einer Ressource in Outlook 2010 mit Exchange 2k3
NLB – Unicast vs. Multicast, Konfiguration, Port Rules
Installation der Sharepoint Services 3.0 auf Server 2008
Office 2010 fertig!!
Programme vom Server Core / Hyper-V Server deinstallieren
Exchange 2010 - Active Sync funktioniert nicht
WDS Remoteinstallationsordner verschieben
WSUS content / database auf anderes Volume verschieben
Forefront 2010 – Dienste starten nicht automatisch
WDS TFTP TimeOut
Terminal-Lizenzserver, 4105
BOOTMGR is missing
Exchange 2010 – This Attachment was removed
NVSPBIND für Hyper-V
WSUS auf anderen Server verschieben
WPAD und Server 2008
Hyper-V Server / Core Bindungen der Netzwerkadapter aufheben
BlueScreen “Stop 0x0000007E” beim aktivieren der Virtualisierungs-Technologie
Server 2008 Core / Hyper-V Netzwerkschnittstelle umbenennen
disclaimer
Zertifizierungsstelle verschieben (Backup/Restore)
Domain Controller umbenennen
Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010
Exchange 2010 – Anonymous Relay
Ersten WS08R2 DC im vorhandenen Forest installieren
Exchange 2010 – Edge Subscription
Exchange 2010 – Get-OwaVirtualDirectory Access Denied
DHCP Fehler 1003
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
Microsoft TechDay Dezember 2009
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 V1 vs. V2
Netlogon Fehler 5719 auf Server (nicht DC)
Windows 7 – Update von RC (7100) auf RTM (7600)
Windows 7 Bootloader, OS hinzufügen
Servergespeicherte TS-Profile, Fehler 1543
Netzwerkprobleme lassen Dynamics abstürzen
Upgrade auf Windows 7
Sharepoint LogFiles verkleinern
Exchange 2010 – Dynamic Signature
Fehler bei HP Netzwerkkarten Update
“DATA ENCRYPTION” Fehler bei RDP Verbindung
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2008; storflt kann nicht geladen werden
Active-Directory-Verwaltungscenter
Language Pack für Windows 7
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Cluster
AppLocker
Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 und Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 in Deutsch auf TechNet/MSDN
Windows Virtual PC – UnDo und Differencing Disks
Windows Virtual PC
BitLocker To Go
Windows 7 - Sicherheitsproblem in UAC
Windows 7 Neuerungen auf den ersten Blick
RemoteApp mit Zertifikat
Doch kein Windows 7 E
Microsoft Roadshow zu neue Produkte
Windows Home Server PP3 (Beta) – Windows 7
Server Logs in SQL Datenbank importieren
Mehrere externe IP’s am ISA Server
Ein paar Infos zu “DirectAccess”
Windows 7 – Nativer VHD Support
Windows 7 – Installation mit USB Stick
MSAT deckt Schwachstellen in der IT Umgebung auf
Windows 7 – RTM Verfügbarkeit
Zertifikat für Makros der Domäne bereitstellen
Delta CRL “Unable to Download” IIS 7
Drucken mit Internet Explorer 8 nicht mehr möglich
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