All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some 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 minute By default, when SCOM 2012 R2 is installed, it uses an eval license (hence the yellow warning when you install the management server). When you go to the “Administration” workspace there is a center page link to technet to “Upgrade SCOM to full version”. Here’s the simple way to add that product key from powershell. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome all, to the age of the gui-less windows server. As more and more people spin up labs with command-line only boxes, this command can be helpful. Remember to only turn off your firewall in lab environments where you know you’re not exposing yourself to additional risk. Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain,Public,Private -Enabled False To do […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Simple 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 minute This 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 minutes This 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 […]
