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Document rds environment

Posted on 30/06/202230/06/2022 by Powershell Administrator

I manage a RDS remote app environment and wanted to have a way to document this automatically. This way it's easy to create up-to-date information on all remote apps and also on the servers in the environment, connection broker settings, gateway configuration, collection summary, roles and servers etc. Based upon Carl Webster's VMWare documentation script, … Continue reading Document rds environment →

Get Remote Desktop Services info

Posted on 30/03/202030/03/2020 by Powershell Administrator

I wanted to have a way to document my Remote Dekstop Services environment (Connection broker, Session Host, Gateway, Remote Applications), thus I created a script that does just that. In case of the script I'm sharing here, this will create exports to CSV for the different items. These are the exports: RDRServersAndRoles.csv - Export of … Continue reading Get Remote Desktop Services info →

Get ACLs on non-inherited folders

Posted on 21/03/202021/03/2020 by Powershell Administrator

I needed a (nice) way to document all non-inherited ACLs (access control lists) on a folder. I wanted this to be exported as a CSV file with a delimiter of my choice. I also wanted to add a log file, in case of any error or strange behavior I could find out what, or where … Continue reading Get ACLs on non-inherited folders →

Writing to Excel

Posted on 24/11/201510/04/2018 by Powershell Administrator

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 →

Nice piece of automation

Posted on 23/06/201423/06/2014 by Powershell Administrator

Today I stumbled upon a very nice script by David O'Brien, which documents your entire System Center Configuration Manager environment. It generates a very nice report and all created automatically. Very nice piece of automation. http://www.david-obrien.net/2014/01/30/update-inventory-script-makes-configmgr-life-easier/

Get all (non-default) scheduled tasks

Posted on 30/04/201411/03/2020 by Powershell Administrator

I tried querying the scheduled tasks to give me a list of all (non-default) scheduled tasks. I also wanted to have its schedule information, which appeared to be a pretty hard task in the get-service command. After several unsuccessful attempts, I tried something else with great and immediate results. It appeared that the schtasks did … Continue reading Get all (non-default) scheduled tasks →

Get all non-default Windows services

Posted on 28/04/201428/04/2014 by Powershell Administrator

Getting a list of all services isn't that hard. This can be achieved with Get-Service or with Get-WmiObject win32_service. It seems that Get-Service doesn't leave me with enough properties to query and/or filter out, and this time the Get-WmiObject queries work quick enough; thus I'll use this for my code. I wanted a list of all … Continue reading Get all non-default Windows services →