I’m seeing a trend with a lot of PowerShell scripters. Many of us have a GUI, non-scripting background and we moved to PowerShell because we didn't want to be button monkeys clicking through the same options in the GUI day in and day out. I've always heard, if you’re going to do something more than once, do it (script …

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The majority of the entries I've seen for the Scripting Games event 2 are using the TotalPhysicalMemory property from the Win32_ComputerSystem WMI class to determine the total amount of physical memory in a server. The property name is TotalPhysicalMemory after all so that's what it should contain, right? Not so fast, …

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Here's my approach to the 2013 PowerShell Scripting Games Advanced Event 2: When I start one of the Scripting Games events, I read and re-read the scenario because if you don't understand the requirements, you can't write an effect script, function, command, tool, etc. It's not a bad idea to print out the event …

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This is a continuation from my previous blog titled 2013 PowerShell Scripting Games Advanced Event 1 – Parameters Don’t Always Work As Expected. This isn't the exact script, but sections of it. You'll notice at the bottom of the first image shown below, I retrieve the list of folder names from the files variable to …

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The scenario for this event states the following which has been paraphrased: Someone allowed log files to build up for around two years and they're starting to causing disk space issues on the server. You need to build a tool to archive the log files because this has happened more than once. Applications write log …

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Last week I posted a PowerShell function to determine what Active Directory domain controllers held the FSMO roles for one or more domains and forests. That particular function used the Get-ADDomain and Get-ADForest cmdlets which are part of the Active Directory PowerShell module. As it so happens, a friend of mine, …

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A while back, I had a need to figure out with PowerShell what server in an Active Directory domain held the PDC Emulator FSMO Role. I found a script on a very popular blog site that figured it out by using a command similar to this: 1Get-ADDomainController -Filter * | 2Where-Object OperationMasterRoles -contains …

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I actually wrote this blog a couple of weeks ago and postponed it until I could do further testing because I thought of some scenarios where it possibly wouldn’t work. I wrote a couple of new blogs over the past couple of weeks and forgot about this one. Low and behold, I had rescheduled this blog for today and forgot …

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The Florida PowerShell User Group March Meeting was this past Tuesday, March 19th. I was the speaker for this meeting and from what I've heard, my presentation was a huge success! We recorded the entire "PowerShell Fundamentals for Beginners" presentation: µ

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Scenario: You've partnered with a company who is testing a new software application that uses PowerShell Web Access. You've provided this company with an Active Directory account named "Joe Doe". This account is only allowed to sign into the PowerShell Web Access interface of a server named WWW in the …

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