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PowerShell - How to qukckly access the Azure Management Portal

Whenever I worked with Azure, first thing i usualy did was fire a web search to get the url for the Azure Management portal. I know I could bookmark i...

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

ConfigMgr PowerShell Script to check if Application or Program is allowed to run in TS without being deployed

Kind of a long title for a blog post, but I could not come up with something shorter to describe the content of this blog post. The below script shows...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, November 7, 2013

PowerShell Script to detect ConfigMgr Task Sequence unfriendly Software Updates

**Update**: 15 Une 2014 - Added [KB2965788](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2965788) If you’re dealing with ConfigMgr and OS Deployment task sequences...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, November 5, 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