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PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 4

Apr 12, 2017 | PatchSolution, SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

The previous posts on The Patch Solution have outlined the though process and goals to a patching strategy. Now it’s time to start taking that strategy and putting it into practice. Now that we have defined some of our goals (See

The Patch Solution – Part 3 post), we can start looking at how we reach those goals. In my opinion, one of the easiest goals to attain is reporting. This gives you an attainable goal which is completely measurable and trackable. Simply run a report, see where you’re at, update a few machines, run a report and see where you got to. The solutions that we try and come up with at TriCon Elite is all about being free and giving back to the community. We like to strive for secure and simple. For The Patch Solution, we opted to use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

SCCM PowerShell and Connect to Multiple SCCM Sites at once (DEV/Prod)

Apr 11, 2017 | SCCM, Scripts | 0 |

There have been quite a few times that I’ve needed to do some comparisons, or even move some objects from one SCCM environment to another. The System Center Configuration Manager console has quite a few options for exporting objects, or saving things to CSV, but then you still need to import it. Check out the rest of this blog post to see how easy it is to report, compare or recreate things between your SCCM environments with PowerShell.

PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 3

Apr 9, 2017 | Design, PatchSolution, SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

So far in this blog series (See previous post: PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 2),...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 16 #StorageSpacesDirect #mvphour

Apr 8, 2017 | S2D, Scripts | 0 |

As you read in Part 15 of this blog Series we are able to create some great Gold Images with Big...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 15 #StorageSpacesDirect #mvphour

Apr 7, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

We have been having some great feedback over the past few weeks on the blog series and especially...

PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 2

Apr 7, 2017 | PatchSolution, SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

In the previous part of this blog series (PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1) we introduced The Patch Solution. Simple, elegant, but yet empowering! In this post, I want to talk about some of the issues I’ve seen and heard about around patching. After you understand this, you’ll have a deeper understanding of The Patch Solution.

PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1

Apr 6, 2017 | PatchSolution, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

Over the last few years, we here at TriCon Elite have been using what we call “The Patch Solution”. Boring name, but it also fits its purpose. Who loves deploying patches and reporting? There are many ways to patch your Windows Servers, but our slim, simple, PowerShell solution was created to solve a few key areas, for free. It has been released to the community for quite some time, but keep reading on why you should use it too!

PowerShell – Add a Direct Member to a SCCM Collection

Apr 3, 2017 | SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

One of these tasks was to add a computer directly to a SCCM collection. According to their requirements, they had to use direct membership and could not do a WMI call. So I created the following script and added it to their task sequence.

Connecting on-premises to Azure using Windows Server 2016

Mar 31, 2017 | Azure, Windows Server | 2 |

One of the most powerful features of Azure is it’s ability to seamlessly integrate with your...

Going to VeeamOn in New Orleans?

Mar 31, 2017 | Veeam | 0 |

I wanted to do a shout out to all you folks that are registered for VeeamOn, to consider coming to...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 14 #StorageSpacesDirect #mvphour

Mar 31, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

In this blog post in the series we will have a look at some of the different Vendor Designs that...

Workaround for Storage Spaces Direct – Unspecified Media Type

Mar 31, 2017 | HyperConverged, S2D | 13 |

With the release of our Master Storage Spaces Direct book on Amazon we have been getting a lot of...

Need Leverage for your next Hardware Purchase?

Mar 30, 2017 | Hyper-V, HyperConverged, S2D | 1 |

Negotiate your Maintenance Contracts One of the games our industry has played for as long as I...

S2D on Fanless Hardware

Mar 29, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with the Airtop-S Fanless Server from Compulab....

Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

Mar 29, 2017 | Azure | 0 |

One of the things that almost everyone asks me when starting cloud adoption, is what the...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 13 #StorageSpacesDirect #mvphour

Mar 29, 2017 | Channel9, S2D | 0 |

Recently at the MVPDays Roadshow in Western Canada I had a chance to deliver a session with a few...

Deploy OMS Step by Step – Quick, Easy, Free

Mar 29, 2017 | OMS | 0 |

Operations Management Suite is Microsoft’s Azure-based Cloud monitoring solution. As is the...

A bit of a RoCE start…

Mar 29, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

While presenting about S2D (Storage Spaces Direct) during MVPDays, I was asked if the benefits of...

Harnessing the Power of #PowerShell #DSC to build my #RDS Farm Part 1 #mvphour

Mar 29, 2017 | Scripts | 0 |

So, I have a new project coming up where I will be required to manage, maintain, and support an...

PowerShell –Managing the Datadog Cloud Service

Mar 28, 2017 | Scripts, Windows Server | 2 |

PowerShell to the rescue again! Datadog is a Cloud service for aggregating real-time metrics, events and logs from all your servers. The easiest way is to install an agent and let it report via HTTPS directly to the internet or via a web proxy. Another cloud aggregation solution that I’m more familiar with is Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS). Both of these services provide access via PowerShell.