QFE Patch List with PowerShell
This handy little script will give you a list of recently installed security updates via the Win32_QuickFixEngeering WMI class (watch out for line wrap!).
Category Archives: Microsoft
Export GPO Settings
Exports all GPO’s across domains in HTML or XML file.
Find Inactive Users in Active Directory
Search for people who haven’t logged on to a domain in the past 180 days.
Backup NTFS Permissions
Use the following PowerShell script to backup NTFS permissions.
Check Exchange Queues
Get-Queue cmdlet allows to check mail queues on the Exchange server.
Check Exchange Service Status
This command is helpful in quickly seeing which services are running particularly after a reboot.
Delete IIS Logs Automatically
On web servers, and Exchange OWA servers especially, there are a lot of OWA logs which can be found in C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1.
Find Missing Subnets in Active Directory
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.
Find Deferred Messages in Exchange
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
Make Initials Capitals
Makes the initials characters capital. ie. character after space/hyphen/dot Public Function MakeInitialsCapital(str As String) As String Dim i As Integer, L As Integer Dim Prev_char As String * 1 Dim c As String * 1 Dim S As String Prev_char = ” ” L = Len(str) i = 1 S = “” Do While i <= L c = Mid(str, i, 1) If Prev_char = ” “… Read More »