by mtsimmons | Sep 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Any of you say this prayer after you’ve successfully remembered how to filter by the node attribute property with Select-XML and PowerShell? Dear God. Please let me remember this syntax the next time I’m trying to search an XML file. If you will just spare...
by mtsimmons | Sep 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
I saw an interesting approach to working with a hashtable the other day. It started with this: $hashtable = @{} This is different than how I usually create an array: $array = @() And also different from creating a PowerShell object: $PSObject = [PSCustomObject]@{}...
by mtsimmons | Sep 10, 2015 | Windows PowerShell (Legacy)
It’s really easy to get the size of a folder with PowerShell. Even though the directory does not actually have a property for size, you just need to get the size of all of the files inside the folder. function Get-FolderSize { [CmdletBinding()] Param (...
by mtsimmons | Sep 10, 2015 | Windows PowerShell (Legacy)
If you’re trying to determine which of your servers require reboots, you’ll love this PowerShell script to check the status. It turns out that a simple way to identify servers that are pending reboot is to check the registry. This information is stored in...
by mtsimmons | Jun 5, 2015 | PowerShell (Modern), Windows PowerShell (Legacy)
Have a complaint from a user that a server is sluggish? Maybe you’re just curious if the problem you’re seeing on a server is related to a process consuming a lot of CPU, or you know the CPU is pegged and you want to identify which process is the culprit....
