July 2011 - The Lonely Administrator - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

Friday Fun Re-Run Last Command

Ok, I’ll be the first to admit you might not find a production use for this tip, but that’s what makes it fun. Interactively, you can always hit the up arrow to get the last command in your command buffer. … Continue reading →...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2011 9:00 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell

Get Shared Resource

I was poking around WMI the other day in PowerShell and was intrigued by the Win32_Share class. This is a great way to find out what items are shared on a server such as printers and folders, although it’s not … Continue reading → Read...

Published Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:10 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Get-WMIObject

Friday Fun PowerShell PowerBall Numbers

Like many of you, I dream about hitting the lottery and retiring to live the good life. Unfortunately I rarely play so I guess my odds are winning are pretty slim. But for the latest installment of Friday Fun, I … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 08 2011 11:37 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Friday Fun, Get-Random, FridayFun, Do, New-Ojbect

Find Non System Service Accounts with PowerShell and WMI

As easy as Get-Service is to use in PowerShell, it has one limitation for IT Pros: it can’t show you what account the service is running under. In old school terms, “What is the service account?” Fortunately you can get … Continue...

Published Tue, Jul 05 2011 8:51 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: WMI, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Service

Get Top Level Folder Usage

This is too long to tweet, even written as a one liner. But this will search a folder for top level subfolders and return the file usage for each. $folder="S:\" dir $folder | where {$_.psIscontainer} | foreach { $stat...

Published Mon, Jul 04 2011 10:02 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Get-ChildItem;Measure-Object, FileSystem

Get Properties with Values

One of my nuisance issues when using WMI with Windows PowerShell, is that when looking at all properties I have to wade though many that have no value. I’d prefer to only view properties that have a populated value. Here’s … Continue...

Published Mon, Jul 04 2011 9:43 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: WMI, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, ScriptBlock, Where-Object, Select-Object

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Published Fri, Jul 01 2011 11:26 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, ScriptingGeek

Get Local Administrators with WMI and PowerShell

Earlier this week I was helping someone out on a problem working with the local administrators group. There are a variety of ways to enumerate the members of a local group. The code he was using involved WMI. I hadn’t … Continue reading →...

Published Fri, Jul 01 2011 8:55 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Get-WMIObject, Invoke-Command, Jobs, Administrators

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