Showing archive results for December 2012

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to send an email message with service status info.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a number of services on a remote server that I would like to monitor. I would like to see the status of these services and receive these status updates via an email message. I have look...

Summary:  Learn how to select the next-to-last item in a Windows PowerShell array.  I have a collection of objects in an array, and I need to select the next-to-last item in the array. How can this be done?  Good question … Charlotte Windows PowerShell user group member Brian Wilhite says: Every now and then, there are ti...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to troubleshoot non-starting automatic services.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have this server in a remote office that is running SharePoint. I do not know what version, but I am not certain that is a problem because it used to work. The problem is the workers in this ...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Windows Server 2012 to collect virtual machine performance information.  How do I collect performance data on a daily basis for a specific Hyper-V virtual machine?  Charlotte Windows PowerShell User group member Brian Wilhite says: There are two cmdlets that we’ll use first, ena...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell and the CIM cmdlets to use WMI to map disk drives to partitions. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is definitely a cliché that the more things change, the more they stay the same. This is certainly true in the world of computers. I have been an IT...