If you have ever moved Windows print services to a new server, chances are that you have been left wondering … More
Tag: Powershell
PowerShell: Find USB Storage Devices
Most Administrators know that you can use a GPO to disable the ability to use USB storage devices on Windows … More
PowerShell Hyper-V Cluster VM Status
As an employee of an MSP, I am often tossed into the ring, so to speak. I’ve found that configuring … More
PowerShell – Create Bulk Active Directory Accounts and Add Them to A Group
Recently I was tasked with helping a company build out a solution for remote training classes. We chose Microsoft’s Remote … More
PowerShell; Set Office 365 Passwords in Bulk
Recentley, I needed to set a new password for Office 365 users in bulk without Azure AD Connect. I needed … More
PowerShell; Find and List All Active Directroy Nested Sub-Groups with Get-ADNestedGroups
Recently I needed to reduce the licenses we were consuming with a particular cloud service. I was told that a … More
PowerShell; Search all Domain Controller Event Logs for Keywords
Do you need to know the last time a user logged on, or who created an AD account? As long … More
Free Exchange Distribution List Memebers Reporting Tool
As and Exchange Architect, I often get asked to report on who belongs to a particular distribution list. It is … More
Powershell; Folder Report with File Count and Size
I was recently asked what tool would be best to report the number of items in, and the size of, … More
PowerShell Monitoring Part 5. Putting it all together. HTML and scheduled tasks.
We’re going to make another series of scripts that call our scanning tools with the lists we’ve made as input parameters and the folders we’ve made as output paths. Then, we’ll schedule our calling scripts as automated tasks that run every few minutes and wallah, a full system monitoring tool is born.
PowerShell System Monitoring Part 3. Server Status Report
If you’ve been following this series then you know that we’re on a mission to create a poor man’s monitoring … More
PowerShell; System Monitoring Part 2. Stopped Automatic Services Report
In the first article in this series I explained the goal. I want to help you create a server monitoring … More
PowerShell; System Monitoring Part 1. Get-ServerEvents, a windows event log error report.
You try to watch the emails and texts but they vomit so much useless data all over your inbox that it is hard to make sence of it. Important notifications end up lost in the noise.
PowerShell: Find Windows File Shares
Quite a few businesses have server networks that were grown over time with servers being added to meet some demand … More