PowerShell Support Matrix
Do you have trouble remember which operating system supports what version of PowerShell? This little cheat sheet will give you hand with that.
Category Archives: Microsoft
Stop Service and Wait
Very simple script that stops a service and waits for it to stop before rebooting. This script can be edited so it runs on every reboot or can be run manually to reboot.
Basic PowerShell Cheatsheet
We all need to peek at the answers from time to time. This post is simply a quick reference guide for basic PowerShell tips, tricks, how-to’s, explanations, etc.
Download website html code with VB6
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest. This code sample demonstrates how to harvest the headers and html code of a web site via VB6. The code presented here shows how to download the header information and html code from a web site, and save that data to text file. In… Read More »
Use PowerShell to quickly deploy a VM
Using virtual machines to test things has become almost a second nature exercise for some folks. Here’s a method to deploy a duplicate of a Hyper-V virtual machine in less than ten seconds with PowerShell.
String Functions Module
I’ve put together a few string handling functions in a module that I’ve found useful over of the years, and thought I would share them here so that others might find them useful. Attached to this post is a zip file containing the module, which you simple have to extract and attach to your VB6 project. Below is… Read More »
Offline Machine Tracking with PowerShell
Here’s a simple little script that will track which computers are offline, and how long they have been offline. It even sends you a handy email summary.
Speed Optimization Using Arrays
I was recently given a small programming challenge by a friend, which entailed splitting a text file into multiple text files, based on word length. I got run time down to 11 seconds. Can you do better? The text file in question is a listing of dictionary words, A through Z, containing a total of 234,936 words. The… Read More »
Retrieving System Uptime
As a part of monitoring your environment, you will need to watch the uptime of your systems. There are a couple different ways to do this. The first way, and my preferred way to monitor uptime, is to “watch” a server or workstation from another or many other locations. A simple ping to the device and storing the… Read More »
Get a list of installed software
It’s always good to perform an inventory of workstations you might be responsible for. This doesn’t mean just writing down make, model and serial number. You need a list of software installed on those machines as well. Using VBScript, you can easily get a list of the installed software on a local or remote workstation, along with other… Read More »