PowerShell Group Membership to CSV file

I love the new PowerShell 3.0 Active Directory commands.  I find that I rarely need to use 3rd party cmdlets anymore. Today I was tasked with pulling group membership from a specific group in Active Directory and exporting specific data on each group member to a CSV...
Restart Windows 8 from your Desktop

Restart Windows 8 from your Desktop

You can make Windows 8 logoff, shutdown or restart as easily as did other versions of windows in the past.  All you need are shortcuts that run the shutdown.exe command with the right parameters. Right-click your desktop and select New Shortcut.       Either type or...
PowerShell Security Warning

PowerShell Security Warning

You may get the following security warning in Powershell even though you have your execution policy set to unrestricted.   Security warning Run only scripts that you trust. While scripts from the internet can be useful, this script can potentially harm your computer....

Hypervisor Breaks after replacing HDD with SSD

When you replace a bootable HDD with a bootable SSD, your boot configuration may not get copied over.  The default boot configuration may not load hypervisor.   You will get this error from Hyper-V Manager when attempting to start a Hyper-V machine: An error occurred...
Restart a Windows 2008 R2 server via Task Scheduler

Restart a Windows 2008 R2 server via Task Scheduler

There are many reasons you may need to restart a server via task scheduler.  My favorite reason is so I can reboot the server after patching without having to work late.  🙂 This example will restart a server every morning at 6:00 AM Monday through Friday, but will not...