Automate Network Captures: Start and Stop-NetEventSession
The Call That Changed How We Handle Network Troubleshooting The call came in at 11pm. A manufacturing client had intermittent network drops hitting their production floor — three times in…
PowerShell ThrottleLimit: Optimizing Concurrent Network Operations
When Your Automation Script Takes Down the Network Three hundred endpoints. One script. A network switch gasping under the load. We inherited exactly this situation from a previous vendor during…
Add-NetEventPacketCaptureProvider: PowerShell Packet Capture
When You Need Packets and Can’t Install Anything A financial services client we support had intermittent TCP resets appearing on a Windows Server 2022 application node. No packet analyzer on…
New-NetEventSession: Network Event Capture in PowerShell
The Packet Loss Nobody Could Find The call came in on a Tuesday morning. A financial services firm we support had been logging intermittent packet loss across their Hyper-V cluster…
PowerShell -AsJob: Run Long Network Tasks Without the Wait
When Your Script Blocks for 20 Minutes A managed services client we support runs a Windows environment across three sites — roughly 400 endpoints. Their network team had a PowerShell…
InterfaceAlias vs InterfaceDescription: Targeting NICs in PowerShell
Wrong NIC, Wrong Config, Very Bad Day A healthcare client came to us after a PowerShell script someone wrote six months earlier started throwing errors across 40 Windows Server boxes.…
Set-NetIPsecMainModeCryptoSet: Enforce IKE Encryption in PowerShell
During a network security review for a logistics company we took over last year, we pulled their Windows Server 2025 IPsec policy and found the main mode crypto set negotiating…
IPsec Main Mode Crypto Sets: PowerShell Hardening Guide
A financial services client we took on last year had been running IPsec between their domain controllers and application servers for three years. Solid concept. The execution was a different…
PowerShell CimSession: Remote Network Cmdlets at Scale
Forty Servers, One Afternoon, One Script We got called in after a client’s previous MSP left them with no documentation and no standardized network adapter configuration across their server fleet.…
Get-NetAdapterRsc: Configure Receive Segment Coalescing in PowerShell
When Network Throughput Hits a Wall A financial services client called us last spring with a familiar complaint. Their Windows Server 2025 nodes were bleeding throughput under sustained traffic loads…