Some PowerShell links
DaleA slowly growing collection of PowerShell resources and links. Books & guides Free Microsoft Sweden - Sweden PowerShell course books and sample Microsoft Technet - The VBScript-to-Windows PowerShell Conversion Guide…
PowerShellPack
Last Tuesday I blogged about the great free scripting tools from Sapien. Well here’s another set of free tools/modules/call them what you will, from Microsoft. The Windows 7 Resource Kit…
Some great free scripting tools.
Sapien make, what I think is the best script editor available. It’s called PrimalScript. Not cheap, but it was the only way I know to step though a PowerShell script. …
Check the health of your SMS 2003 & 2007 servers
I run a PowerShell script which checks the health of my 20 SMS 2003 servers. Sure, I could install Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM). But there is the cost for…
Getting CPU Utilisation with PowerShell
I use the following piece of code in my “Check SMS Server are healthly” PowerShell scripts. I had a case recently where the SQL Server process decided to use 80%…
And here’s the PowerShell: Pinging a computer script
The first thing you might notice is that the PowerShell version is a bit shorter. 3 lines of VBscript code, compared to 1 line of PowerShell script. That is, 1…
PowerShell: Reboot remote computers
It looks like it’s going to be a week of scripting blog posts. Today’s script is used to reboot a list of remote computers. Sometimes, when deploying security patches, the…
PowerShell: count of files in a directory
With PowerShell, I needed to get a count of files in a particular directory. This is what I came up with. # # Get a count of files in a…
Reading the end of a log file with PowerShell
I needed to read the last line of a log file. PowerShell made it very, very, easy. All you need to do is Get-Content the file, and then pipe it…