TechReady At Microsoft we have an internal event called TechReady that happens twice each year. It is similar to our public TechEd event. Approximately 5,000 Microsoft technical field people from all over the world gather to learn the details of the latest product releases and dialog with the product...

This weekend I'll be celebrating Christmas in the US. Today Santa brought me a 1500VA 865W UPS for my home lab server. Now I don't have to worry about those winter power hiccups rebooting all of my HyperV guests. Best of all the scripting elves will be able to write presents without interruption. ...

Update: To see all articles in this series click here . In the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow. No matter where you are in the world let us all give thanks for PowerShell. If Windows were the pumpkin pie, then PowerShell would be the whipped cream on top. If Active Directory were...

This post is part three in a series on documenting and remediating SID history in your AD forest. Go back and read part 1 and part 2 if you haven't had a chance yet. In today's episode we will document the domain SIDs so we know from where this latent access originates. Rosetta Stone Many AD admins...

More bad Chuck Norris one liners: You don't get access unless Chuck Norris says you get access. The Chuck Norris array starts and ends on 1, because Chuck Norris is never a zero. Chuck Norris' PowerShell console NEVER shows red text. This is part two in a series on translating SIDs...

SID Walker First things first: If Chuck Norris wrote a PowerShell script it would be a one-liner, because Chuck Norris can do anything in one strike. Chuck Norris does not have SID history, because there is only one Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris' ACL only has one ACE: Chuck Norris –...

Wouldn’t you know it. The very same day I posted the SID history script I found a shorter way to do it. I'm calling a "do over". I love the PowerShell.com email tip-of-the-day. On that particular day the tip was how to use the ExpandProperty switch on the Select-Object cmdlet. This was new for...

Update: To see all articles in this series click here . No matter how bad he wants to an elephant simply cannot drive a Volkswagen. He just won’t fit in that space. People can drive VWs, because that is who the VW was designed to accommodate. There is nothing worse than frustrated elephants...