The Lonely Administrator : Windows Server

TechDays SF Presentations

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:35:31 GMT

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...(read more)

File Age Groupings with PowerShell

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:40:55 GMT

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...(read more)

TechDays San Francisco

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:18:32 GMT

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...(read more)

Morning Report Revised

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:59:05 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerShell in a Nutshell

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:56:33 GMT

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......(read more)

The PowerShell Morning Report

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:18:31 GMT

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...(read more)

Send PowerShell Reports by Mail

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:11:53 GMT

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...(read more)

Updating Multi-Valued Active Directory Properties Part 2

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:46:06 GMT

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...(read more)

Background Performance Counters

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:47:01 GMT

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...(read more)

New Petri Author I trust many of you are…

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:44:56 GMT

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, … Continue reading →...(read more)

Running Remote Processes Here is a video…

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:54:32 GMT

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Managing WSUS from a Non-Domain Member

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:25:16 GMT

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 … Continue reading → Read More......(read more)