Reset the local admin password the other day and I needed to find out all services that rely on the local admin account to run so no interruption would happen after the reboot. Obviously, the easiest way to find out is using PowerShell. But how? I first tried the Get-Service cmdlet but found that it doesn’t return the value for […]
When a PowerShell script takes long time to finish, it’s nice to have some sort of notification set up in place to notify you when the job is finished. Here are three type of notifications you can create in PowerShell. Notify via Email PowerShell has a native cmdlet Send-MailMessage that can be easily set up and use. I have written […]
As time goes on, the computer accounts in your AD could be getting quite messy. More and more computer accounts became obsolete as their physical counterpart gets disposed. At one point, a cleaning job is due to be performed to clean up the mess. There are probably a lot of ways but here is a PowerShell way that is pretty […]
There are no built-in cmdlets in PowerShell designed for managing FTP but you can easily download and install a free module to fill the gap if ever needed. Posh-SSH is a PowerShell 3.0 or newer module for automating tasks against systems using the SSH protocol. The module supports only a subset of the capabilities that the different SSH RFCs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell […]
I have a batch job scheduled to run every night that could take several hours to finish. It’s just a simple data copy job with a set of robocopy commands but I have no way of knowing how it went during the night. It would be nice if the job can notify me the status of the job in an […]
PowerShell Remoting really makes my work a lot easier but it requires quite a bit of work to get all the remote computers ready to take the remoting calls, such as automatically start Windows Remote Management services, set up the HTTP listener for incoming WinRM requests, as well as open Firewall Port to allow the traffic to go through. For […]
via Chad Cox on Technet, “I need to know how to do my job and perform certain task” When it comes to PowerShell this is the most common request I get around PowerShell training topics. As admins continue to struggle with the decision on whether they use a GUI on Windows Server or to use Core, I want to provide […]
Via Jan-Hendrik Peter’s blog: Every now and then while delivering one of our PowerShell workshops, my customers ask me “How can I create an exe from my PowerShell script?” And every time the same reasoning is being used: To obfuscate the use of clear text passwords, connection strings and other sensitive data from prying eyes. Sure, most will tell me […]