Blog Categories Business Management Cloud Datacenter & DevOps Concurrency Culture Hybrid Work Manufacturing Security Data & AI Digital Transformation Modern Applications Organizational Change Management Secure Modern Workplace Service Management User Experience News News Expertise Azure DevOps Blockchain Dynamics 365 Office 365 Power BI ServiceNow SharePoint SQL Server Series Beer 30 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Tech Talks with Nathan Lasnoski Most Recent Most Popular Running the Data Migration Assistant - Part Three - Jupyter Notebook This is the third in a series of blog posts on Microsoft's Data Migration Assistant. It covers running the DMA using PowerShell from a Jupyter Notebook. by Frank Gill Sep 3, 2020 Running the Data Migration Assistant - Part Two - PowerShell In the previous post, I introduced the Data Migration Assistant (DMA) from Microsoft. In this post I will introduce PowerShell modules from Microsoft that can be used to run the DMA against an inventory of instances and databases. by Frank Gill Sep 2, 2020 Resize a SQL Server Transaction Log File Using PowerShell This post contains a PowerShell script that identifies SQL Server databases with a VLF count that exceeds the limit passed in. It can output that list or resize log files identified to reduce the VLF count. by Frank Gill Sep 17, 2019 Restore an Availability Group Database with PowerShell This post contains a script that automates the restore of a SQL Server Availability Group database by Frank Gill Sep 9, 2019 How to Delete Users From Azure AD After AD Connect instance has been deleted Directions guiding you to delete duplicated objects or "orphaned" objects from Azure AD after the instance of AD Connect has been deleted. by Jack Bumgarner Jul 15, 2019 Fixing Invoke-WebRequest How to speed up build times up to 25% with one line of code. by Nathan Stachowiak Apr 1, 2019 SharePoint Online PowerShell Script Creation for Lists and Permissions SharePoint Online PowerShell script for creating Lists and Permissions. by Hozafa Motiwala Oct 31, 2018 Disabling Windows Update in Windows 10 IoT Core If you’re working with Windows 10 IoT Core on your devices and have wondered how you can disable Windows Update, well wonder no more! This article will detail out the steps needed to disable this service. by John Adali Mar 27, 2018 Managing Azure Automation Deployments with VSTS Discover ways to manage and deploy Azure Automation artifacts with VSTS by Michael Dugan May 17, 2017 WSUS/SUP software updates sync failing because of “Upgrades” classification At a client recently my Configurations Manager software update sync to Microsoft was failing. This happened after I chose the classification “Upgrades” in the SUP (Software Update Point) properties. After about 5 minutes the sync failed. The following is what helped me fix this issue. by Marcus Musial Feb 28, 2017 12 Topics Categories Business Management Cloud Datacenter & DevOps Concurrency Culture Hybrid Work Manufacturing Security Data & AI Digital Transformation Modern Applications Organizational Change Management Secure Modern Workplace Service Management User Experience News News Expertise Azure DevOps Blockchain Dynamics 365 Office 365 Power BI ServiceNow SharePoint SQL Server Series Beer 30 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Tech Talks with Nathan Lasnoski
Running the Data Migration Assistant - Part Three - Jupyter Notebook This is the third in a series of blog posts on Microsoft's Data Migration Assistant. It covers running the DMA using PowerShell from a Jupyter Notebook. by Frank Gill Sep 3, 2020
Running the Data Migration Assistant - Part Two - PowerShell In the previous post, I introduced the Data Migration Assistant (DMA) from Microsoft. In this post I will introduce PowerShell modules from Microsoft that can be used to run the DMA against an inventory of instances and databases. by Frank Gill Sep 2, 2020
Resize a SQL Server Transaction Log File Using PowerShell This post contains a PowerShell script that identifies SQL Server databases with a VLF count that exceeds the limit passed in. It can output that list or resize log files identified to reduce the VLF count. by Frank Gill Sep 17, 2019
Restore an Availability Group Database with PowerShell This post contains a script that automates the restore of a SQL Server Availability Group database by Frank Gill Sep 9, 2019
How to Delete Users From Azure AD After AD Connect instance has been deleted Directions guiding you to delete duplicated objects or "orphaned" objects from Azure AD after the instance of AD Connect has been deleted. by Jack Bumgarner Jul 15, 2019
Fixing Invoke-WebRequest How to speed up build times up to 25% with one line of code. by Nathan Stachowiak Apr 1, 2019
SharePoint Online PowerShell Script Creation for Lists and Permissions SharePoint Online PowerShell script for creating Lists and Permissions. by Hozafa Motiwala Oct 31, 2018
Disabling Windows Update in Windows 10 IoT Core If you’re working with Windows 10 IoT Core on your devices and have wondered how you can disable Windows Update, well wonder no more! This article will detail out the steps needed to disable this service. by John Adali Mar 27, 2018
Managing Azure Automation Deployments with VSTS Discover ways to manage and deploy Azure Automation artifacts with VSTS by Michael Dugan May 17, 2017
WSUS/SUP software updates sync failing because of “Upgrades” classification At a client recently my Configurations Manager software update sync to Microsoft was failing. This happened after I chose the classification “Upgrades” in the SUP (Software Update Point) properties. After about 5 minutes the sync failed. The following is what helped me fix this issue. by Marcus Musial Feb 28, 2017