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TechDays SF Presentations

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...

Published Mon, May 05 2013 6:35 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: WMI, PowerShell, Conferences, Windows Server, Active Directory, Powershell 3.0, Windows 8, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, TechDays

File Age Groupings with PowerShell

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...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2013 8:40 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Windows Server, Get-ChildItem, Add-Member, Group-Object

TechDays San Francisco

I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at TechDays San Francisco this year. The event runs May 2nd and 3rd. You can find the schedule here. Registration will be forthcoming. Seating will be limited so you won’t want to...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2013 10:18 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Training, Conferences, Windows Server, Active Directory, Powershell 3.0, Windows 8, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, TechDays

Morning Report Revised

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 … Continue reading...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2012 9:59 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Windows Server, Get-WMIObject, Get-Eventlog

PowerShell in a Nutshell

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 … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2012 6:56 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Training, PowerShell v2.0, Windows Server, video

The PowerShell Morning Report

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 … Continue reading...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2012 12:18 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, ConvertTo-HTML, Windows 7, Windows Server, Get-WMIObject, HTML

Send PowerShell Reports by Mail

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 … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2011 8:11 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Windows Server, Train Signal, Test-Connection, Ping, Send-MailMessage, mail

Updating Multi-Valued Active Directory Properties Part 2

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 … Continue...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2011 12:46 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Windows Server, Active Directory, Set-QADUser, Get-QADUser, Quest Software, Quest

Background Performance Counters

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...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2011 10:47 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Windows Server, Jobs, Train Signal, Start-Job, PerfMon, Get-Counter

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Published Thu, Nov 11 2011 2:54 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Training, Windows Server, Google Plus

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