Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover shares on remote systems. Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been asked to discover the shares on some remote servers. How can I do that? —OL Hello OL, Honorary Scripting Guy, Richa...
Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to automate health tests across your server estate. Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been asked to test the service health on my servers. How can I do that? —GK Hello GK, Honorary Scripting G...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find services that have the same dependencies. How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find services that have the same dependencies? Use the Get-Service cmdlet with the RequiredServices parameter, and supply the name of the dependent service. (The following example shows service...
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: 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 ...
