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
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Azure Resource Inventory
This is a tool which isn't created by me, but it is so useful, that I had to share this. Azure Resource Inventory (ARI) is a powerful script written in Powershell to generate an Excel report of any Azure Environment you have read access. This project is intended to help Cloud Admins and anyone that … Continue reading Azure Resource Inventory
Move witness disk in SQL cluster
I ran into the issue where CAU (Cluster Aware Updating) was working as intended, but on my SQL cluster, this meant that the SQL cluster disks were still available in the Failover Cluster, but the witness disk was active on the non-active node. Which meant that if I did queries on the cluster, it would … Continue reading Move witness disk in SQL cluster
Move images based on dimension
A while ago I created a script to copy the Windows 10 lock screen images, this puts all the files in 1 directory. I wanted to sort those images based on their dimensions, so I move them to two different folders, one called "landscape" and one called "portrait". The script is pretty easy, first I … Continue reading Move images based on dimension
Find text (string) in text file(s)
If you want to find a certain text (string) in a text file or multiple text files, the quickest way to do so, is by using the select-string option. First you'd need to get a list of the files you want to search trough: $FileList = Get-ChildItem -Path "D:\temp\" or you can use it on … Continue reading Find text (string) in text file(s)
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
Notepad++ downloader and updater
I love to use Notepad++ (npp), but I also have npp installed on servers on which users can log on, but don't have administrative privileges. They also love to use npp, but with the updater enabled, they get popup messages for the updates, but cannot install them. I don't want to have to check all servers that I … Continue reading Notepad++ downloader and updater
Powershell application – Get information from a webpage, parse it and show the results
Today I created a nice little 'application' in Powershell. In The Netherlands we have a site called Marktplaats (www.marktplaats.nl) which is some sort of combination between e-bay and craiglist. This is one of the biggest sites in The Netherlands, but I was missing some search options on this site and thought they started to show … Continue reading Powershell application – Get information from a webpage, parse it and show the results
How simple some things can be – Powershell indent
In the past few years, I've been using tools to indent my code... Today by accident found out that in Powershell ISE, if you select multiple lines and press tab it'll indent all selected lines... and of course shift+tab will do the reverse. Amazing how simple some things can be without any tool... And how … Continue reading How simple some things can be – Powershell indent
Analyze Robocopy log files and mail the result
A long, long time ago (back in 2008) I created a VBS script which would analyze a folder filled with Robocopy logs and once done analyzing and creating a summary, it would mail the result to me. A couple of days ago I decided it was time to update this script to Powershell. Once I … Continue reading Analyze Robocopy log files and mail the result
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