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Month: March 2024

Use PowerShell to create report of a DTS Compliant NPS log

One of our customers had issues authenticating clients using NPS. One of the first things you do is... I read the NPS logs, and they were DTS Compliant formatted, a bit of a pain to read and search 🙁 So, I used PowerShell to create a nice log for me in either a GridView or an Excel file. In this blog post, I will show you how!

Harm Veenstra Formatting, Logs, Networking, Security 1 Comment March 28, 2024February 22, 2025 4 Minutes

Disabling Idle Power Save using Intune and PowerShell

One of our customers sought a solution to disable Idle Power Save on their Realtek USB GbE network adapters using Intune. Because of that setting, their users were disconnected from their Remote Desktop sessions multiple times during the day. This blog post will show you how to disable that setting using Intune, a Windows app (Win32), or a Remediation script.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 6 Comments March 21, 2024March 22, 2024 4 Minutes

250.000 visitors!

This site just reached a new milestone: 250.000 visitors! It started on April 21st, 2021, and it's been almost two years already now 🙂 In this blog post, I will link to other milestones and tell you how things are going for me now... (Spoileralert: Great 🙂 )

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell 3 Comments March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 2 Minutes

PowerShell 5 and 7 command-line parameters

You can start PowerShell 5 (powershell.exe) and PowerShell 7 (pwsh.exe) and specify parameters. This blog post will show you the parameters I use most for version 5 or 7.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment March 8, 2024March 8, 2024 4 Minutes

And then… I became a Microsoft MVP in the PowerShell area

This busy week ended with something that I will never forget: I received an email with the subject "Welcome to the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Program"!

Harm Veenstra Microsoft MVP, PowerShell 8 Comments March 2, 2024July 16, 2026 1 Minute

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