Set default printer with PowerShell
Closely related to my previous post, this simple script uses a WScript.Network COM object to set the default printer. The comment block is longer than the scrip...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
Add network printer with PowerShell
This is my PowerShwell translation of my colleague’s VBScript solution for mapping network printers with a script. For use with Group Policy, it will prob...
Select SSL Cert used by Remote Desktop on Server 2012
Great question and answer on Server Fault: Where THUMBPRINT is the thumbprint of the desired certificate.
Quick tip – Human readable folder sizes in Excel
From the school of There’s Probably a Better Way, But… I was taking the output of SysInternals’ du.exe utility and wanted to email it to a col...
Updating firewall rules with netsh
I needed to adjust the scope of a built-in firewall rule in a couple of servers, restricting the remote IPs to a list of UVM subnets in CIDR notation. The netsh...
Remote Desktop Gateway
In order to connect to the Remote Desktop service on centrally managed servers from on or off campus, you need to use the Remote Desktop (RD) Gateway feature of...
Outlook 2013 at UVM
UPDATE! All UVM email accounts have been migrated to Microsoft Exchange, and so this guide is no longer necessary. Outlook 2013 and 2016 setup is very easy, and...
Software updates user experience
As we transition from Windows Automatic Updates to the more capable System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM or ConfigMgr), the timing and the appearance of al...
Who’s logged into Server 2012?
I’m severely disappointed that Microsoft has removed from Server 2012 the tools required for managing and configuring Remote Desktop for Administration. O...
Mark Minasi’s talk: The Case for Powershell
With Mark’s permission, I’m mirroring the video of his recent web talk “The Case for PowerShell: Why You Should Learn-PowerShell So You Needn&...