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HVRemote reduces the manual configuration steps needed for Hyper-V Remote Management down to a few simple commands.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/HVRemote

It seems it’s not clear for everyone. When you download a compiled HTML Help file from the internet, the file get’s tagged as insecure. Now when you open the file, the content get’s block unless you remove the lock..

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To unlock the the file, just right-click it in explorer and chose properties. Under Genereal you’ll find an unlock button

that’s it. Now you can open the and read the file as usual..

Remote Access Without Admin Privileges

In PowerShell v.2, remote access is available only to users who hold local administrator privileges. So, even if you do have appropriate remote access to a machine, , you cannot remotely access the system if you are not an Admin. This is not a technical limitation, though, just a safe default. You should use this line to change it :

Set-PSSessionConfiguration -Name Microsoft.PowerShell -showSecurityDescriptorUI

Generate PC Lists

One easy way of creating lists of PC names or IP address ranges etc is a simple pipeline like this:

1..40 | Foreach-Object { ‘PC-W7-A{0:000}’ -f $_ }

Use the -f operator to format the number. In this example, it will always be three-digit.

You can use Sort-Object to sort simple variable types. Have a look at the following:

‘Tom’, ‘Chris’, ‘Judy’, ‘Alan’ | Sort-Object

Input can come from a different command. If you’d like to get seven random lottery numbers, you should try this:

1..49 | Get-Random -Count 7 | Sort-Object

You’ll find that when you feed complex objects into Sort-Object, you should specify the object property you want to sort on (or else Sort-Object will pick one by itself):

Get-ChildItem $env:windir | Sort-Object Length

Here are some more examples:

Get-HotFix | Sort-Object InstalledOn

Get-ComputerRestorePoint | Sort-Object Description

Today, when I started visual studio and wanted to Add new Item to an existing project / solution, I found that the Template for Silverlight Child Window was missing from my visual studio 2010 templates.

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There seems to be a known bug / issue in Visual Studio 2010 RC when dealing with Service References (to a WCF Service). The Collection Type of the Service Reference is set to custom and you start getting compilation errors like: Cannot implicitly convert type ‘SomeType[]‘ to ‘System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection<[Namespace].SomeType>’

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Ok, this one’s about managing your Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS). Today, most companies disable the Windows Firewall. Why? i think this has several reasons. One reason probably is that they think the LAN is safe and there is no need for a Firewall – negligent! Other reasons might be: laziness, missing understanding / know how, too less time.. Ok, in this post i want to write down some of my own experiences when managing the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS) but also i want to show you, that there are easy ways to manage the WFAS using the Netsh command line tool.

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Using Microsoft Exchange 2007 / 2010 Management Shell (PowerShell with extensions), you can pull out some very exciting statistics. That was never that easy in the pre Exchange 2007 era.

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Ok, this one’s is cool i think. Whenever i needed a large dummy file, i opened up notepad, write ASDFASDFASDFA CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-V,CTRL-V,CTRL-V,CTRL-V. CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-V,CTRL-V,CTRL-V,CTRL-V,CTRL-V.. Then i saved the file, opened up a CMD-Shell and wrote copy dummyFile.txt+dummyFile.txt+dummyFile.txt until the file was large enough.. ok, there’s fsutil.exe which does the same in a much more efficient manner.. OR, unleash the Power of .NET – no, you don’t have to start programming using Visual Studio, just open up PowerShell..

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