Restart-Computers with Firm Confirmation
I’m always on the look out for new PowerShell projects. Doesn’t much matter if they’re little projects–like this one–or big ones–like The DFS Monitor With History. This is why I’m always on the Spiceworks IT Programming forums and PowerGui.org’s forums.
Today I ran across a little script someone was writing in batch and I decided to write it in PowerShell for a couple of reasons. I had not really played with the Read-Host functionality yet and I wanted to play with the built-in documentation functionality of PowerShell which I discovered while on vacation. Yes, I read PowerShell stuff while on vacation, it’s a weakness (so far I’ve been able to hold off on the PowerShell reference app for the iPad, but not sure how much longer)!!
Single Click Script to Add a Computer to the Domain
This script was inspired by a simple script I saw posted on Spiceworks, you can find the original here. I didn’t want to post my take on the script on Spiceworks because it seemed a little rude, but I had some problems with this script. The primary one, and this one trumps all others, was that you’re storing an extended security password in clear text! Now, you could protect it by putting security permissions around the share where this is located and those security permissions are going to be for people who would probably know that password anyway but it still didn’t work for me. We need a more secure method.
DFS Replication Monitoring
For the past two years I’ve been working, on and off, on a way to easily monitor my DFS replication tree. I just want to make sure backlogs aren’t getting stuck and so forth. The Microsoft tools are pretty unwieldy for this, by the way. This sent me on the journey into DFS and how it works and how I can better monitor it. Read on to see how it went!
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