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Earlier this year I wrote a PowerShell module to get uptime information. The module was part of a series I wrote for Petri.com. As part of my ongoing project to move some of my more interesting, and hopefully useful, tools to GitHub, I revised the module. The new version makes better use of custom format…
I’ve been working on a project for a client that includes creating an HTML report, generated by PowerShell. I originally thought I would include a certain feature but decided against it. However, this is so cool I thought I’d share it with you as a Friday Fun article. I’ve done alot this year with some…
Last week I presented a number of sessions at TechDays in beautiful San Francisco. Met some great people and had a great time. I presented 4 talks, almost all of them PowerShell-related. Actually, they all had some type of PowerShell content. I’m happy to share my session slides and PowerShell demonstrations. Most of the demonstrations…
I’m always talking about how much the object-nature of PowerShell makes all the difference in the world. Today, I have another example. Let’s say you want to analyze a directory, perhaps a shared group folder for a department. And you want to identify files that haven’t been modified in a while. I like this topic…
Last month I posted a PowerShell script I called The Morning Report. I received some very nice feedback. One comment was about making it easier to use the script in a pipelined expression. For example, get a list of computers from a text file and create a single HTML report. That sounds reasonable to me…
This past weekend I did an online presentation for a friend of mine who teaches for ITT in Omaha, Nebraska. He wanted me to do a brief talk about what PowerShell is and show how to use it, especially for managing Active Directory. I probably went much longer than I needed but everyone seemed to…
I love how easy it is to manage computers with Windows PowerShell. It is a great reporting tool, but often I find people getting locked into one approach. I’m a big believer in flexibility and re-use and using objects in the pipeline wherever I can. So I put together a PowerShell script that I can…
Today I came across a post about pinging a list of computers and send the results as a table via Outlook. Brian is a very smart Active Directory guy so I offered some PowerShell suggestions to make his task even easier. Obviously you can only offer so much in a blog comment, so I thought…
A few weeks ago I posted about updating multi-valued attributes in Active Directory. Part 1 covered how to accomplish this in PowerShell using ADSI. In Part 2 I’ll show you how to accomplish this using the free Active Directory cmdlets from Quest Software. As you’ll see, the over all process isn’t that much different. Except…
Windows Powershell makes it relatively easy to collect performance counter information via the Get-Counter cmdlet. Because I’m assuming you want to collect more than a few seconds of performance information, you’ll need to take advantage of PowerShell background jobs if you want your prompt back. Of course, you can always open a second session, but…
New Petri Author I trust many of you are familiar with the Petri web site. This has long been a very valuable site for IT Pros. You can always find a wealth of reliable and practical information. Starting in December, I will be adding my voice to the mix. I will be contributing content that…
Running Remote Processes Here is a video clip from my upcoming course for TrainSIgnal, "Windows Server 2008 PowerShell Training". This clip shows how to work with processes on remote computers.
I run a lot of test machines in my home office network and rely on WSUS. However, my primary desktop is a stand alone system, that is not a domain member. This has always meant that I needed a remote desktop connection to the WSUS server to approve updates. The latest remote management tools from…
I had a great time in Berlin at TechEd and want to thank everybody who came to my presentation. I hope you found it valuable and worth your time. As promised, you can download my demo files here. The .txt files are my demo files which are really just a list of PowerShell commands. They…