The Lonely Administrator : Invoke-Command

Get Local Admin Group Members in a New Old Way

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:15:22 GMT

Yesterday I posted a quick article on getting the age of the local administrator account password. It seemed appropropriate to follow up on a quick and dirty way to list all members of the local administrator group. Normally, I would turn to WMI (and...(read more)

Using Start-Job as a Scheduled Task

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:54:41 GMT

Here’s a technique you might want to use for ad hoc troubleshooting or reporting. Even though it is possible to set up scheduled tasks to run PowerShell commands or scripts, it is cumbersome and time consuming. PowerShell v3 offers a … Continue...(read more)

Ping IP Range

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:40:50 GMT

Last week I came across a post on using PowerShell, or more specifically a .NET Framework class, to ping a range of computers in an IP subnet. The original post by Thomas Maurer is here. I added a comment. And … Continue reading → Read More...(read more)

Get Local Administrators with WMI and PowerShell

The Lonely Administrator — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:55:52 GMT

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 →...(read more)

ScriptBlocks On the Fly

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:38:00 GMT

I’m always preaching about writing PowerShell scripts and functions with reuse and modularization in mind. You should never have to write the same block of code twice. But what about in the shell during your daily grind? Perhaps today you’re...(read more)