This is a very manual task of logging onto each domain controller and copying the file to a central location, and then sifting through the data to remove any duplicate IP addresses etc. This task becomes very time consuming if you have a large number of domain controllers.
Here is a quick little one liner to find all the deferred messages with FromAddress, Recipients and DeferReason. Get-TransportServer | Get-Queue | ?{$_.Identity -like ‘*submission*’} | get-message -IncludeRecipientInfo | ?{$_.Status -eq ‘Retry’} | select FromAddress,Recipients, DeferReason
Generating a password with PowerShell is relatively easy if you leverage a particular method of .Net, System.Web.Security.Membership. Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web[System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(8,2) Simple and to the point. But below is a pretty good function to do something similar, if you are curious about string operations with PowerShell. function Get-RandomPassword($length){ $length-=1 $lower = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’ $upper = $lower.ToUpper() $number = 0..9 $special=’~!@#$%^&*()_+|}{[]\’ $chars = “$lower$special$upper”.ToCharArray() $pass = Get-Random -InputObject… Read More »
Finding machines in Active Directory is pretty easy using the Get-ADComputer commandlet. You can specify what to find by any number of parameters. For example, the most basic use of the commandlet is: Get-ADComputer -Filter * The above code will return all Active Directory computer objects. But lets say you are in the process of upgrading operating systems across the domain, and… Read More »
Just a quick PowerShell one-liner to display all the shutdown events on a computer.
When you are building a Windows server from the command line, GUI interfaces are not available. Here are two methods of setting IP configuration from the command line.
If you’re standing up a new domain, this bit of PowerShell will get you there without the need to run through the wizard.
You can speed up the entry of data in to your word documents by leveraging keyboard shortcuts.
Ever get tired of adding a signature block to an email? Typing your name and other info every time you write an email? Here is how to get rid of that tedium with Outlook for the web.
Let’s say one of the production servers got rebooted unexpectedly and you would like to find out who rebooted it and when the server got rebooted. In PowerShell, you can take a look at the event log using the PowerShell one-liner command shown below. You don’t need to write a bunch of lines in a script and then… Read More »