Dans Tech Notes

Powershell Script to Archive IIS Log Files

2011-08-02T09:05:00.000-07:00

Here's a script that I put together to deal with windows server log files (Mainly IIS) as previously it was a manual process for me and something I got sick of. I found scripting pieces around that were close to what I wanted but didn't fine something exactly so mashed this script together.The script basically takes a list of servers you give it, checks each server to determine if it's 2003 or

Sales Emails Yes. Sales Calls No.

2011-04-11T10:46:00.000-07:00

So yes I understand you're trying to sell your product, but I just spent 2.5 minutes on the phone with you (which was pretty short for a sales call) when I have zero interest in your product. I wasted both your time and mine as well as broken my train of thought on whatever I was doing. A couple of calls and I've wasted about 30 minutes of work time.Whereas if you send me an email I can within

Finding Large Emails Transferred - Exchange Management Shell

2010-08-04T18:25:00.000-07:00

This Exchange management shell command will reach out to all your hub transport servers and then search through the tracking logs for messages greater than a given size. Handy if you want to track down larger messages moving through your Exchange environment. This particular example searches for stuff greater than 50MB.Get-ExchangeServer | where {$_.isHubTransportServer -eq $true} |

Powershell script to find a specific OS in a domain

2010-04-08T12:12:00.000-07:00

Here's a piece of code modified from this scripting guy post that allows you to list computer accounts with specific operating systems that aren't disabled in your domain. It's written as a function so you just have to write your query string and pass it to the function. aka GetDomainComps *2008* will return all the AD computer accounts with 2008 in their name.Function GetDomainComps{param ($

Setup Netapp System Manager Read-Only and Cifs Admins

2010-03-15T11:18:00.000-07:00

I had a need to create a read-only account to access our netapp filers from Netapp System Manager but also wanted to have an account that had read-only to everything but read and write to cifs configuration.Luckily creating a read-only account is clearly detailed in TR-3358 so I just had to add on the cifs read-write portion for my purposes. The following are the commands that I used. Note the

Expiring Users Script That Sends an Email

2010-02-09T11:54:00.001-08:00

Below is a script that I created to query AD for expiring user accounts and then to email the results out. The only flaw is that it doesn't filter account that have already expired, so those will show. Which yeah I could add that in but it would be MUCH easier to just re-write this in powershell to do the same.As always test and use at your own risk.' VB Script to scrape AD for users with

Set Your McData/Brocade Spheron Fiber Switch Banner

2009-12-16T10:56:00.000-08:00

Had to do this today on a Sphereon 4400 switch and it wasn't quite the simplest procedure so figured I'd jot it down.-Enable SSH (configure->ssh)-Then SSH to the switch and use the following commands to set the banner text:config switch bannerbannerText 1 "================Banner============="bannerText 2 "This system is restricted....."bannerText 3 "authorized users..."bannerText 19 "All users

Netapp and Backup Exec Compression Vs Deduplication

2009-11-25T09:17:00.000-08:00

I recently did a small-scale test with our Netapp and Backup Exec 12.5 to determine if it would be best to compress or not compress backup data written to disk. (Either way the assumption was that the volume was to be deduplicated on the netapp post-process regardless of compression setting.)Note: Backup Exec handles the compression on the application level and the netapp handles the

Powershell script for prepending and appending text

2009-08-07T09:47:00.000-07:00

I recently had the need to go through a text file and prepend a string to every line, and while that's ok for a couple of lines it doesn't work for a file with hundreds and thousands of lines. So here's the powershell command to do that: