The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #6 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. Write a PowerShell script to determine the uptime of servers by using the WMI class WMI32_OperatingSystem. The script should display the server name, how …

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #5 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. Your manager has task you with producing a report of applications that are causing errors on your servers. This report should display the source and number …

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #4 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. The key to this one is figuring out how to format the output as shown in the screen shot in the event scenario which is similar to the one in the image …

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #3 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. This was the toughest event out of the first three for me. I spent a lot of time researching how to check permissions because part of the first design point …

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #2 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. Listed below are my notes about the requirements and design points: Find all services that are running and can be stopped. The command must work against …

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Listed below are my notes about the requirements and design points: Computers run Windows 7 and servers run Windows 2008 R2. They’re all in one domain. PowerShell remoting is enabled on all computers (both servers and desktops). Use PowerShell to retrieve the top ten processes based on the memory working set. There’s …

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Commands in PowerShell are called cmdlets (pronounced "command lets") and they are in the form of singular verb-noun commands like Get-Alias (not Get-Aliases). In my opinion, there are three cmdlets that are the key to figuring out how to use PowerShell and finding help when you need it. These cmdlets are: …

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Last week I saw a tweet that referenced a couple of interesting articles on interview questions for programmers. Steve Yegge's The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions had an interesting question about identifying which of 50,000 web pages had phone numbers in them. You have to identify all of the web pages with phone …

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This week while working with some PowerShell scripts that retrieve WMI information from remote servers, I ran into an issue where I was able to return results from Windows 2008 R2 servers without issue but was unable to return results from Windows 2008 (non-R2) servers even though they had PowerShell 2.0 installed and …

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I ran into an issue lately where the domain controller that hosts the PDC emulator FSMO role for the forest root domain became unavailable and the time for several machines in the domain was far enough off to start causing kerberos related security problems. Here's a simply Powershell script to query the time on remote …

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