Microsoft MVP Award (Most Valuable Professional) : Windows PowerShell
Again!? Waouh… Last year I didn’t believe it in the first place. Then, I were grateful and a bit taken aback… This …
PowerShell V4 New Features
This course provides an overview of new features in PowerShell 4.0. It is aimed at IT Pros already using PowerShell 3.0 who …
//publish/ – Hackathon
Your unfinished passion project. The game that’s missing a final level. The app in need of a few testers. Join your peers …
Breathe in, we’re safe!
Information on Microsoft Azure and Heartbleed
The Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160) has received a significant amount of attention recently. While the discovered issue is specific to OpenSSL, many customers are wondering whether this affects Microsoft’s offerings, specifically Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Account and Microsoft Azure, along with most Microsoft Services, were not impacted by the OpenSSL vulnerability. Windows’ implementation of SSL/TLS was also not impacted.
//learn/ – Global Community Webcast Event
//learn/ is a collaborative effort by Microsoft and Microsoft MVPs to help our developers across the globe to build Windows Platform Apps. Learn from our MVPs as they deliver informative sessions, in your local language (see below for language tracks), on the latest topics and start building your app today!
CBT Nuggets – Windows PowerShell v2-v3-v4 Ultimate Training
Here’s another great course: CBT Nuggets tutorial “Windows PowerShell v2-v3-v4 Ultimate Training” with Don Jones.
This PowerShell video training course with Don Jones covers everything an administrator can do with any current version of PowerShell. Read more…
Play by Play: Discovering PowerShell with Mark Minasi
Play by Play: Discovering PowerShell with Mark Minasi
Windows Server guru Mark Minasi shows how to learn PowerShell from PowerShell, using the built-in intelligent features and help commands.
MVA – Microsoft Virtual Academy
Successful technologists never stop learning and great technology never stops evolving. Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) offers online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help technologists continually learn, with hundreds of courses, in 11 different languages. Our mission is to help developers, knowledgeable IT professionals and advanced students learn the latest technology, build their skills, and advance their careers. MVA is free of charge, and the entire service is hosted on Windows Azure.
In other words, free training courses by experts and members of the products team as short videos or slide presentations. So if you do not know about Microsoft Virtual Academy, you have to. And if you already knew about, you’d probably still have something to learn on it; so, go! Now!
Check-PasswordExpiration
Because ‘Password never expires’ is a really bad option for an administrator…
For those who use their Active Directory account (the administrative one…) to connect to remote server roles through an MMC, this script can be very useful. Indeed, it allows you to be notified by email one week before the expiration of the password (by default, configurable).
Because if you do not connect directly to any server, you will never have the information about the expiration of your password, only a message stating that your account is restricted, but whitout telling you why.
ISESteroids – ISE editor add-on
ISESteroids™ is a truly revolutionary new add-on for the Windows PowerShell ISE editor.
You love the PowerShell ISE editor because it is lightweight and fast? But you are missing a lot of professional features? Then ISESteroids is perfect for you!
No need to install additional software. No Administrator privileges needed. Simply load ISESteroids™, and your ISE editor is supercharged.
Get-VMsByClusterNode
Here’s a very simple but usefull function to have a view on which Virtual Machine is currently running (or not, there a State column!) on which node of a MSCS failover cluster.
Royal TS
As a sysadmin, I learned that I need good tools to be efficient; that’s why I love PowerShell!
Royal TS is offering a unique, powerful and very flexible solution for managing Remote Desktop (RDP), Terminal (SSH, Telnet, etc), VNC and many more connections on Windows and OS X. You can share your configuration in a team without sharing your passwords and no database backend is needed.
Invoke-Sqlcmd
The Invoke-Sqlcmd cmdlet is a SQL Server cmdlet that runs scripts that contain statements from the languages (Transact-SQL and XQuery) and commands that are supported by the sqlcmd utility.
Great! Let’s use it.
But…
The term ‘invoke-sqlcmd’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2014
This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for March 2014.
With the release of the bulletins for March 2014, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued on March 6, 2014
http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/advance | http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms14-mar
RegEx (Regular Expression) online tools
There are many tools to build and test regular expressions. The purpose here is not to draw up a complete list of such tools, but to share the best of the ones I know, ordered by preference (ie completely subjective!)