All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSymantec Endpoint Protection has quite a hold on the Anti-Virus market share. Many have environments where it’s used, and may not be the administrators or even able to view data from the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager. In light of that, I’ve written a PowerShell script to check the last update time for SEP definitions that […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome servers, for one reason or another, need to have services restarted periodically. This script does just that, and has the ability to grab multiple service names using a wildcard populated array. After it’s complete, it sends an email from the script letting you know it’s complete. It’s commented out, but also has the ability […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere we go, short but sweet. I had to come up with this today when working with a SQL Server compliance item in SCCM 2012 using a script detection method. I’ve added the else back in, but you can modify however you need. if (Test-Path “HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\Instance Names\SQL”) { write-host “True” } Else { […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSimple one-liner, very helpful though! Import-Module OperationsManager; Get-SCOMGroup -DisplayName “All Windows Computers” | Get-SCOMClassInstance | sort DisplayName | FT DisplayName This will output just the names of all machines in the “All Windows Computers” group, you can change that name to output the machine names of any other group as well.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis one is going to be short and sweet, I’ve been testing SMTP with and without encryption and wanted a good script for that. Here are the lines that you’ll want to look at configuring: Line 5: “$smtpServer =”InsertYourSmtpServerHere” Line 12: Change the $false value to $true if you want to encrypt your SMTP with […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a lot of environments that have developers that use a lot of config files, sometimes it would be nice to keep older versions of those files. Fortunately Microsoft has graced us with shadow copies so we can have “Previous Versions”. The only issue with that, is you can only can’t turn on shadow copies […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis will be very short, sweet and to the point. I was on a project recently where I was unable to access (and therefore monitor) any of the networking equipment and the WAN links thereof. Noticing that the issues that were occurring were due to a network problem I spoke with the folks who ran […]
