Printer management with PowerShell
I find the printer management scripts included with Server 2008 bothersome. However, until we get to Server 2012, with its shiny new printer management cmdlets,...
Tag: Scripting
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...
String arrays and mandatory parameters
I have been working on a function to convert the output of NET SHARE <sharename> commands into usable PowerShell objects. In the course of my work, I was ...
Listing parent of AD object in PowerShell
Recently, I wanted to provide a client with a list of groups that related to some work he was doing. I wanted the group names as well as their location with AD....
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 ...
Custom FSRM notification script
I’ve been working on a script to generate an informative message to users when they exceed quota thresholds on our file server. The features of the File S...
PowerShell – find a free IP
Since we don’t use DHCP in our server subnets, I frequently have to locate free IP addresses when deploying a server. I remembered reading a TechNet Magaz...
Monday – 2009-09-28
Today’s issues: Backup issues Shared folder quotas Printer configurations Data execution protection I created a Server 2008 x64 guest for managing 64-bit driv...
backups – Bad and Good
We’ve been working with our backup vendor to address some shortcomings of their product as it relates to Windows 2008 system recover. This was precipitated by...