Programmatically creating an new Windows Event Viewer log can be quite useful during automated processes. While some folks know how this is done, others might needs some guidance. Here’s how to do it with PowerShell.
PSMetrics Part 3: A simple ASP ingestor Welcome to part 3 in the PSMetrics series. In this part, I’ll be building a simple ingestor to receive and process data from the collectors, and send the data on to the database.
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.
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.
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 »
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.
Just a little snippet which will show you how to write a string value to the registry with Visual Basic 6.
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.
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 »
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.