September 24, 2009 4:13 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Microsoft Windows,
Powershell,
Windows,
Windows AdministrationI have a server that attempts to backup up the SQL Server databases and it always fails because not enough space is available. This usually is not a big deal as I would run a SQL Clean up task before the backups run to remove the old files. In this case though I am using a third party utility to...
July 23, 2009 9:43 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Active Directory,
Domain Administration,
Microsoft Windows,
Powershell,
Windows,
Windows AdministrationI am continuing work on the script that I am converting from VBScript to Powershell and I must say that it is going quite well with the help of the Quest cmdlets. In the script I want to go through a particular OU and delete any accounts that are currntly disabled, and were created a minimum of 180...
March 30, 2009 9:57 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Active Directory,
Database Administration,
Linux,
Powershell,
Scripting,
System Administration,
Unix,
Windows,
Windows AdministrationSo I have people ask me all the time how I can get so much done in a day. I have to be honest with you, I do not really do that much. This is because I write scripts to do anything and everything for me if I have to do it more than once I script it. If I think something...
February 24, 2009 6:18 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Active Directory,
Powershell,
Windows,
Windows AdministrationI have been asked how to manage Active Directory with Powershell. The best way is with the Quest Software cmd-lets for Active Directory. They are free and available at http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx. Once...
February 17, 2009 10:42 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Microsoft Windows,
Powershell,
Windows,
Windows AdministrationI have a friend that I work with that has to copy files out to the same 10 servers anytime our developers create a new report. To do this manually he has to log into the UNC of each server, verify that the server does not already have a report with the same name, if it does he needs to rename it,...
January 27, 2009 10:53 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Windows,
Windows AdministrationI made a big mistake at home and only gave myself a 10 Gig partition of a 250Gig drive to be my boot drive. This was OK for a while but I did not manage the space well and before I knew it I was out of space and could not delete any more files. I found this great tool for home that is free for home...
January 27, 2009 8:52 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Powershell,
Windows,
Windows AdministrationMike sent me an email asking about the input file for the disk monitoring script that I posted a while back. He could not get the script to work as he was putting the hostname and the IP of the machine in the computerlistall.txt file. The script was written to have either the hostname or the IP of...
January 21, 2009 5:25 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Powershell,
WindowsAs I said I am just starting to fool around with Powershell V2.0 and I ran across a cmd-let that really grabbed my attention and I went to read more about it. This is a Fanatastic Idea and I am so excited to see Powershell use this in more Providers.
Transactions, How cool is that? Just like...
January 20, 2009 5:49 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Powershell,
WindowsI have a script that I run in production that requires the script to access the Environment Variables for the server the script is executing on. This is a very simple task in powershell and very very useful. In my script I am using it just to verify that the machine name that it is executing on is...
