Posts Tagged ‘Scripting’

PowerShell Confirm Preference (2010-3-4)

I seem to run into an issue when I run some PowerShell scripts where I get prompted at each line of the script for confirmation.  That can get really annoying, so I have to look up how to prevent that behavior.  Thankfully, there is already some good information out there on how to do [...]

Servers in Domain (2010-2-24)

At some point, I had a desire to list all the computer accounts for any server OS in Active Directory.  I am pretty sure that I did a search and found the script below, but I don’t remember where, so whoever wrote it doesn’t get credit this time…
$strCategory = “computer”
$strOperatingSystem = “Windows*Server*”
$objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry
$objSearcher [...]

Using XML in your PowerShell scripting (2009-9-22)

I have written a lot of scripts that use .txt files to read or store data, but I have a need to read some information from an .xml file.  This could be done by treating the file as a simple txt file, but it would require some pretty good filtering that is already a part [...]

Monitoring drive space (2009-9-4)

One of the things that we spend a lot of time on is trying to keep track of what servers have enough free space.  We have a lot of different tools to check drive space, and we even use some of them from time to time.  We have a pretty complicated system created by Rickey [...]