Charlie Russel's Blog

As I described in my previous post, I always open both an admin and non-admin PowerShell window when I log on to a computer. To tell the two apart, I set the background colour of the Admin window to dark red, with white text, and the non-admin window to a white background with dark blue […]

I run as a limited user during my normal work, but I always keep one or more Admin windows open. These are logged in to my Domain Administrator account, running “As Administrator”. And I make sure I can tell that I’m running in that window by setting the colour scheme with a nice, dark red, background. Hard […]

I use a whole set of PowerShell scripts to create my lab environment when I’m working on a book or article. The master scripts all reside in a Build directory on my labhost. The problem is that when something goes wonky, or I need to tweak a script to do something a bit different, I’m […]

Most system administrators routinely start a command line window of some sort when they log onto a computer. For me, obviously, that’s a PowerShell window. Actually, two PowerShell windows – one as a limited user, the other as an administrator, but that trick is for a different blog post. For this one, I’ll show you […]

I’ve been working with Windows Server 2016 CTP5 recently, and because I installed it without the Desktop Experience (what we used to call a Server Core installation), I’m having to do everything in Windows PowerShell. No complaints, I enjoy it, but it does force me to think about things a bit sometimes. One of the […]