Check the health of your SMS 2003 & 2007 servers
DaleI 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…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – January 2010
Get-ComputersNearMe Today I learned a little bit about how to get to some of the data stored within special shell folders. You can get a list of all of the…
The Windows PowerShell syntax was deliberately chosen
The Windows PowerShell syntax was deliberately chosen to facilitate ease of use and ease of learning. Corporate enterprise Windows administrators are the target audience. - Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide by…