Hi, if you are a Microsoft Band (2) owner and like PowerShell (who doesn´t ?!?) this webtile might be something for you. It grabs the RSS data from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/ and displays the title and first 160 characters of the blog text on your Band (2) It also notifies you if there are some trigger words…
some thoughts about getting stuff done in business
Today I want to share some thoughts about getting things done in business. Let´s assume you work in a business with working processes and an (IT)environment that is well known. This business has a goal: making money Now you have to bring in new technology into this environment. You have found a way to do…
PowerShell Conference Europe 2016 #PSConfEU
Today I want to share where I will be April 20th – 22nd 2016: In Hannover, Germany, at the PowerShell Conference Europe 2016. Why will I go there? I was attending the PowerShell Summit Europe this year and found it amazing to speak with all those genius people attending the Summit. I mean, I´m reading content and…
updated: Surface Dock and Mini Displayport Adapter
So you got yourself a new Surface Dock for your Surface Book, Surface Pro 4 or Surface Pro 3. Now you are happy to connect everything to your external screen(s) via your Mini Display Port Adapter which you connect to your Surface Dock. And nothing works. You take your adapter to your Surface, plug it in and…
Maker World – Ein Familienausflug
Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit habe ich irgendwo Werbung für die Maker World in Friedrichshafen gesehen und dachte mir “hach, das wär ja mal interressant”. Schließlich habe ich mir zum Start des Raspberry Pi einen solchen besorgt, ihn aber nach einem müden Versuch mit XMBC in den Keller gelegt.Vor ein paar Tagen kam mir wieder ein Plakat oder…
Installing Novell ZEN-Works Client in SCCM OSD Tasksequence
Hi there, I know, I know, why would you install the ZENworks Client when you got SCCM? Well, sometimes that´s just the way it is… Installting the ZENwork Clients is not as easy as it may seem. There is an installer that brings everything needed and so I started by just running that installer during…
PowerShell interactive filter with Out-GridView
Recently, during the first meeting of our new south-german PowerShell Usergroup, Rolf Masuch showed us a nice feature which I didn´t know: Using Out-GridView as interactive filter. Here is how to do it: The magic parameter is –PassThru ! If you want the user to select, let´s say, some services to stop, you just can…
#Pictures Funken 2015
Sysmon v2.0 – new version of a small but great tool
Yesterday Microsoft released Sysmon v2.0 which was again put together by Mark Russinovich (@ and Thomas Garnier under the famous label of Sysinternals. Here is a blogpost about the first release of Sysmon from my blog. New in version two are: Include a session GUID in each events to allow correlation of events on same…
Sysinternals Sysmon – a great way to see what´s happening on your system
Two days ago Mark Russinovic released a new tool call sysmon in his Sysinternals Suite (which is owned by Microsoft now). This tool can help you getting an overview about things that often happen on your system while it is or is getting compromised by creating events for specific things like the change a…