Scheduled tasks, PowerShell’s -file parameter, and array values
I wrote a script that accepts a comma-separated list of values, and the script worked just fine from the command-line. However, when I tried to configure a sche...
Category: Scripts
PowerShell Script: New-RandomString.ps1
I need to automate the setting of passwords on some Active Directory accounts. Since resetting passwords is also a task that I’m asked to perform with som...
Get-PrintJobs.ps1 PowerShell script
After a recent upgrade of our print servers, I discovered that the Print Spooler service event logging had been enhanced, and changed enough that some PowerShe...
Set default printer with PowerShell
Closely related to my previous post, this simple script uses a WScript.Network COM object to set the default printer. The comment block is longer than the scrip...
Add network printer with PowerShell
This is my PowerShwell translation of my colleague’s VBScript solution for mapping network printers with a script. For use with Group Policy, it will prob...
Printer drivers and architectures with PowerShell
We have a number of 32-bit Windows 2008 print servers that we want to migrate to Windows Server 2012, for the printer management PowerShell cmdlets, among other...
Which Disk is that volume on?
I administer a server VM with a lot of disks, and many of them are the same size. When I need to make changes to the system’s storage, I’m always ne...
Script: Shadow Copy Report
We use EMC NetWorker for our enterprise backup solution. Since we migrated our primary file server from a NetApp filer to a native Windows server, we’ve been ...