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Send email with Powershell script, schedule script with Windows Task Scheduler
09 January 08 10:27 AM | steve schofield | 3 comment(s)

Here is a set of samples I used to do a common task in my scripting life. This go around I wanted to use Powershell. A) Create a script to send emails in powershell ---------------------------------------------------- 1) Open Powershell type set-executionpolicy...

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Free Powershell book and other Powershell info
13 June 07 05:42 AM | steve schofield | with no comments

I attended TechED USA this year. One of the key technologies that has a lot of buzz in the ITPro space is about Powershell. I attended a few sessions on Powershell and the Exchange Management Shell (Powershell for managing Exchange 2007). I found a free...

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IIS7 post #32 - Web Application Stress Tool on Vista
10 March 07 03:32 PM | steve schofield | 8 comment(s)

I was messing around with Powershell and IIS7 trying to list the executing requests. Since my local environment isn't very busy, I loaded Web Application Stress Tool . This tool has no problem generating enough requests. You'll need to load one...

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Filter Event logs with Powershell
25 February 07 06:25 PM | steve schofield | with no comments

This command helps filter SYSTEM event log entries. get-eventlog system | where {$_.Message -match "Office" -and $_.Source -match "UmrdpService"} | format-table -wrap -autosize -property Message

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Intellisense / get-member in Powershell
06 February 07 10:26 PM | steve schofield | 1 comment(s)

One of the neat tricks is write out what Methods, Properties get-member cmdlet . Here are a couple of replies I recently from my question in the Powershell newsgroup . Example 1 ------------- It works well for static methods (note the parenthesis and...

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RMT version of Powershell available for Vista
05 February 07 06:04 PM | steve schofield | with no comments

RTM version of Powershell for Vista! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C6EF4735-C7DE-46A2-997A-EA58FDFCBA63&displaylang=en Steve

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Basic Powershell examples, couple useful commands
25 January 07 11:26 PM | steve schofield | 1 comment(s)

I've been bitten by the Powershell bug. My scripting background tells me I should really learn this tool. Since I've been writing console applications for a few years, mostly to do WMI and related Web service calls. This should be fairly easy...

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Searching logfiles with Powershell, Log parser, Findstr, QGrep
25 January 07 02:19 PM | steve schofield | 2 comment(s)

I'm on a mission! I have to search log files that are between 150 MB and larger. These are syslogd files generated. Here is sample output. 2007-01-15 00:00:10 Mail.Debug 111.111.111.111 join[00000]: server.steve.net[1.1.1.1] 1168837209-0ff301650000...

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IIS7 - post #27 - Powershell & Microsoft IIS Web.administration blog
13 January 07 11:15 PM | steve schofield | with no comments

Found this blog by Tobin Titus . Definitely check it out! http://blogs.iis.net/tobintitus/archive/2006/11/30/powershell-and-microsoft-web-administration.aspx http://blogs.iis.net/tobintitus/archive/2006/12/01/more-on-iis-7-administration-with-powershell...

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IIS7 - post #22 - IIS7 and Powershell info
18 December 06 05:15 AM | steve schofield | with no comments

I've been reading up on Powershell and found a few articles on IIS7 related material. Using Powershell will be handy with IIS7 because of the new WMI provider. Also, check out my blog post on Powershell reference links.. An Introduction to Windows...

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