by Edward van Biljon | Dec 20, 2023 | PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell V7, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell, Windows Server 2022 PowerShell
If you work with a large number of servers and you do not use a system to manage the activation of all machines built, manually logging in and checking the status is just time consuming. I put together a script that will go and get the status of all machines specified...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 26, 2021 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
In a previous article we looked at group membership for accounts in Active Directory that you can pull using PowerShell. In this short article we will look at extracting certain information for a user account or for all users in Active Directory. For all users, you...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 25, 2021 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
In PowerShell, you can do many things and this includes reporting on items or updating information but specifically in Active Directory, you can pull information about users and groups etc simply by using PowerShell. Below is a script that allows you to get membership...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 21, 2021 | PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
I had a request to check connectivity to a SQL server and to email the results, however I thought of doing something different. Have the application check the connectivity but create an Event ID and Event Log entry on Success and Failure and you can monitor that with...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 6, 2021 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows 10 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
Task schedular is brilliant because you can schedule things to run on certain days and times but what about if you looking for a scheduled task but there are so many folders to sift through to find them? PowerShell is the answer, you can run a single command to find...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 4, 2021 | PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
In PowerShell you have a few options to increase the values of certain settings, in this example we will be looking at MaxMemoryPerShellMB setting that needs to be increased. The default value of 150mb might be fine in a small environment but in a larger environment...
