PSMetrics Part 2: PowerShell Collector
Welcome back for part 2 of the series. In this post, I’ll be putting together a simple collector script with PowerShell for gathering metrics on a Windows host, and sending the data to the ingestor.
Category Archives: Microsoft
PSMetrics Part 1: Overview of the Project
Metrics are a necessary evil in the IT world. A good set of metrics helps us to diagnose problems in our environments and plan for future growth.
Use PowerShell to Get the Email Address of a Users Manager
Sometimes, you need to tattle on a user to their manager. But how to find out who their manager is, and their email address? Here is how I did it with PowerShell. At my job, stale user accounts are not tolerated. Inactive accounts are disabled after a period of time, with no warning. However, I wanted to at… Read More »
Auto Downloading SCEP Definitions with PowerShell
I’ve been asked how to automate the download of fresh definitions for SCEP definitions in an enterprise environment, so here is an easy way to do it with PowerShell.
Write a String to the Registry with VB6
Just a little snippet which will show you how to write a string value to the registry with Visual Basic 6.
Organize Your Digital Photos with Powershell
Like a lot of smartphone users, I like to take pictures. These pictures get automatically synced to my cloud storage, dumping them in a single folder called “Camera Roll”. I came up with a quick Powershell script to organize these photos by year and month.
Dump Database to Text Files
I recently had a need write records from a database to text files, with one file per record. This post covers how I did it, with VBScript. This project was actually part of a much larger project, which in reality was one of those “Let’s see if I can do it” type of projects. It turned out successful,… Read More »
Who Authenticated Me?
When you manage an Active Directory infrastructure that spans multiple sites, it is a good idea to test the ability of clients to successfully authenticate against domain controllers in other sites.
Checking Profile Existence on Remote Machines with PowerShell
Need to find every workstation that a user has logged on to? Security event logs rolled over or you can’t otherwise get that info from the domain controllers? Here is a way to get it.
Resolving hostnames and IP Addresses with VB6
Some time ago, I wrote an app that required the ability to resolve hostnames to IP Addresses, and vice versa. After some searching around, I found this gem. I don’t recall exactly where I found it, but this little chunk of code has served me well, lo these many years. It contains two functions: The functions do exactly… Read More »