Monitoring Azure Resource Costs with PowerShell
Find out which resource groups are eating your Azure budget, straight from PowerShell, no portal clicking required.
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Check MECM Software Update Deployment Status with PowerShell
One object per update deployment with targeted, compliant, failed and unknown counts, so you can spot the deployments that need you.
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Exporting Active Directory Computer Objects to CSV
A computer inventory straight out of AD, with OS build, last logon, password age and OU in one tidy CSV, ready for audits or a stale-machine cleanup.
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Find Out Why a Windows Machine Rebooted with PowerShell
Pull shutdown, startup and crash events from the System log so you can tell a planned restart from a power cut, and see who or what asked for it.
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Exporting Active Directory OUs to CSV (With Paths You Can Actually Read)
Dump every OU in the domain to a spreadsheet, with a readable path, depth, GPO link count and, if you want, how many objects live in each one.
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Chasing ClientOtherError in Azure Files: Is It Your SDK or Your Code?
What ClientOtherError really counts in Azure Files metrics, how to find which calls cause it, and what to look for in the client library code making them.
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Audit a Windows Service Across Many Computers with PowerShell
Feed it a list of computers and a service name, get back one row per machine saying whether it's installed, running, and how it starts.
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