PowerShell Remoting Auth: Kerberos vs NTLM vs CredSSP
The 2 AM Call That Started This Post A managed customer paged us last quarter. Their nightly PowerShell job hit a remote file server, then tried to copy from a…
Invoke-Command at Scale: PowerShell Across 200 Servers
A client with 212 Windows servers across four regions asked us to push a single time zone correction before a quarterly close. Their previous vendor had quoted two engineers for…
Reading and Writing Windows Registry with PowerShell
After the third failed login script rollout in a single quarter, a financial services client brought us in to clean up their configuration management. The previous MSP had been pushing…
PolicyStore in NetIPsec Cmdlets: Local vs Domain Policies
When One Firewall Rule Breaks Forty Machines A financial services client called us on a Friday afternoon because half their branch office servers had stopped accepting inbound connections after a…
PowerShell WMI Service Management: Query, Start, Stop
When Get-Service Falls Short in Production Three months ago, a client with a fleet of 120 Windows Server nodes across four branch offices came to us with a recurring problem:…
Configuring AD Audit Policies with PowerShell and GPO
A Missed Event Log Cost a Client Their Domain Admin Last year, a mid-size logistics company we manage came to us after discovering that a domain admin account had been…
AD Server Parameter: FQDN vs NetBIOS Name Explained
While scripting a bulk user migration for a client last quarter, I hit one of those issues that wastes an hour before you realize what happened. Half the Get-ADUser calls…
Automating ODBC DSN Management with PowerShell Remove-OdbcDsn
Orphaned DSNs and the Ticket That Started It All The ticket read: “Application can’t connect to the database.” After remoting into the server, I ran Get-OdbcDsn and found seventeen ODBC…
Monitoring Disk Space and Sending Alerts with PowerShell
A Full Drive at 2 AM Is Never Just a Full Drive Last quarter, one of our managed customers had a file server hit 99% disk utilization on a Saturday…
Windows Admin Center: Browser-Based Server Management Done Right
The Ticket That Changed How We Manage Servers Last year, a logistics client with fourteen Windows Server instances across two sites called us in a panic — their lone sysadmin…