I wanted to have a tool that creates a backup to a zip file, but I didn't want the zip file to be recreated every time (as it can take nearly a day for some backups I wanted to make), thus I need something to synchronize to zip and remove items from the zip archive … Continue reading Backup to zip
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Exporting all scheduled tasks
I wanted to have an export of all scheduled tasks ready for all servers that I manage, thus I created a little powershell tool that does that exactly. It appeared to be pretty simple to reach this goal, as there is an Export-ScheduledTask function in Powershell. This is what I used, but I wanted to … Continue reading Exporting all scheduled tasks
It has been a while…
It's been a while since I posted anything on this site. At work I haven't been able to work much with Powershell as other activities needed my time. Next to that I've gotten a lower back hernia, which was/is very painful and made it not able for me to sit and use my computer. The … Continue reading It has been a while…
Use text to speech to read the hardest poem in the English language
Some years ago I came across one of the hardest poems in the English language, and since I've been playing with the text-to-speech engine I decided to let the text-to-speech deal with the poem. It seemed to do very well and tought me how to pronounce some words I had never heard of as well. … Continue reading Use text to speech to read the hardest poem in the English language
Text to speech alarm clock with powershell
Thanks to a blog by Jefferey Hicks about an alarm clock in powershell using the PC speaker, I thought it would be nice to tweak that script a little bit and use Microsoft's text to speech engine so you can use the alarm and let a voice wake you through your headphones or speakers. To … Continue reading Text to speech alarm clock with powershell
Get current cpu usage for a process
I wanted to get the current CPU usage for certain processes, which appeared to be harder than I thought. The Get-Process command will give you CPU time and program start time, but will not tell you when the CPU was being used by the process. Thus if you use the previous information you got from … Continue reading Get current cpu usage for a process
Get logged on users and sessions
There are several ways to get a list of currently logged on users on a system, but only a few return the things that I like to know. In case of my servers, I'd like to know which users are connected to which session. One way to do so is by: Import-Module RemoteDesktop Get-RDUserSession but … Continue reading Get logged on users and sessions
Writing to Excel
Background About a year ago I started writing things to Excel with PowerShell, based on the information I found on an MSDN blog - Create Excel file with PowerShell I wasn’t quite satisfied, though. I wanted some more formatting (specifically: change the top row behavior). It was somewhat frustrating to not be able to get … Continue reading Writing to Excel
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Get-Date
The Get-Date cmdlet is pretty nifty and gives you a lot of date/time formats you'd want to use in your script. Like if you were to save files with a unique stamp, you'd want a date/time format like <year><month><day><hour><minute><second> Here are some examples to achieve this goal, with outputs Get-Date -Format s 2015-11-19T20:22:35 (Get-Date -Format s).Replace("-","").Replace(":","").Replace("T","") … Continue reading Get-Date
