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Windows 8.1 - Shutdown and Shutdown

Hey there, when i watched the last edition of “[The Defrag Show](http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-Defrag-Show/Defrag-Migration-Documentation-Folder-...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, December 9, 2013

PowerShell Desired State Configuration - My first experiences

During the past weeks I have been reading and listening about PowerShell Desired State Configuration a new feature introduced with PowerShell 4.0 whic...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, November 16, 2013

PowerShell Script - Are we running as Admin?

While exploring some of the new cmdlets that come with Windows 8.1 I came across [Test-NetConnection](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn372...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, November 8, 2013

PowerShell Script - Get-ComputerGeolocation

**28-OCT-2013 Update**: I have updated the script to retry when the status of the location provider is in initializing mode. The below script uses the...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, October 27, 2013

How to build a site Windows 8.1 tile for your blog

With just a few clicks and pasting 3 lines of code you can create a Windows 8.1 live tile for your blog. Here’s what you need to do. Navigate to [http...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, October 20, 2013

Windows 8.1 Command Prompt or PowerShell

If you have used the Windows 8.1 preview build, you will have noticed that the X-Menu by default had PowerShell enabled instead of the Command Prompt....

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, September 9, 2013