PowerShell Menus ($Host.UI.PromptForChoice) – Defined or… Dynamic!
Sometimes, we want to interact with the user who runned a script. The main purpose of this interaction is that the script …
EventsToExcel
Here’s an example working on the automation of Excel worksheet filling. For this example, data comes from the eventlog, but obviously any …
Get-PerfGraphs
Perfmon is a powerfull tool, for sysadmins… But to provide nice (and especially readable for them!) graphs for your managers, here’s a …
Take a screenshot with PowerShell
Thanks to Jeremy on StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2969321/how-can-i-do-a-screen-capture-in-windows-powershell), .NET allows us to take a screenshot programatically:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for November 2012
This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for November 2012. With the release of the bulletins for November 2012, this bulletin summary …
Freshly installed IIS7.x basic tuning
We saw yesterday the different ways to install IIS7.x with PowerShell. “When I’m paid, I always follow my job through. You know …
PowerShell ways to install IIS7.x
We’re talking here about PowerShell and IIS; maybe the first thing to do should have been to install IIS (7.x) with PowerShell… …
Adding multiple host headers to IIS 7 – One Liner
When we have to add multiple host headers to a website, we have the “classic” way, ie using the ‘New-WebBinding’ cmdlet in …
CountFiles
Here’s a script to count files under the specified path (or the working directory if the parameter is omitted) and times the …
MassMail
Here’s a script to send massmails. It allows to send the same message many times, one to each email address defined in …
IpRangeScan
Here’s a script to scan an entire IP range. It allows to find out what IP addresses are free and what are …
Convert a PowerShell script to an EXE file
It’s not a “real” conversion, but it gives us an ‘.exe’ file, and the one who will use it doesn’t need to …
PowerShell Books
Have a look to the PowerShell Book Guide. This site is designed to help you select the Windows PowerShell book, or books, …
Don’t forget: the Scripting Guy! is presenting Wednesday, 11/07/12
Just a reminder, Ed Wilson, the Microsoft Scripting Guy, is presenting to the group tomorrow, Wednesday, November 11th. He will be discussing …
PowerShell CheatSheet – Maths!
PowerShell loves maths! By using System.Math .NET Framework class, PowerShell is a great calculator. Here are common examples of System.Math functions Returning …