Turns on Maintenance Mode for a specific computer monitored by SCOM (System Center Operations Manager). Ensure that the OperationsManager module is available on the computer from which this script is executed.
Nothing magical here, just a little something to help get the attention of whoever is at the keyboard on a remote machine. This function will allow you to pop up a message on a LAN-connected computer.
Returns the parsed output of netsh wlan show network mode=bssid in psobject form. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Requires Vista/2008 or higher, or XP SP3 with a hotfix (I can’t recall which one, sorry.)
Retrieve the windows product key of a specified machine using WMI, via PowerShell.
Do you have trouble remember which operating system supports what version of PowerShell? This little cheat sheet will give you hand with that.
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.
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.
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 »
Part of the job of a system administrator is to define root cause for a problem or outage this is happening. This site has an excuse generator, but you’d normally have to open the page to view the excuses. Not anymore!
This is a simple but useful command line utility for determining the uptime of the local computer.