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Get Server Manager Features from configuration file

Jan-Henrik DamaschkeJDJan-Henrik Damaschke
Windows Server03/06/2018

Windows Server Manager lets you export the configured roles and features from the UI dialogue as an xml file. Unfortunately there is no possibility to directly work with this xml file. The following script shows a simple way to parse the xml file. You can then pipe the output to for example to the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet. {% gist 69f8a0ef50d2ec11e3dbd0931daebae2 %}

German special characters (umlauts) with AutoHotkey

If you are like me from Germany, but used to writing on a EN-US or EN-GB keyboard layout, you probably ran into the problem of writing special characters like "ä", "ü" or "ß".\nThis is why I searched for a more simple solution then changing the layout with WIN+SPACE frequently.

Getting started with Azure Static Web Apps

At Microsoft Build 2020 lots of new updates and services were announced. Today we will take a look at a specific one that I am pretty excited about, Static Web Apps. Read on to learn what it is, how to use it and and why it helps us to reduce effort when deploying web applications to Microsoft Azure.

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