I recently encountered a problem where i wanted to end multiple processes that were running. In my quest to learn powershell I had a look to see if could do it via this method. It was a simple one line cmdlet: stop-process -name iexplore Simples! NAME Stop-Process SYNOPSIS Stops one or more running …
Free Windows 7 Deployment Guide
This deployment guide goes through the steps from migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dfafb346-97dd-4fca-947e-3d9149834da6
Second Shot is back!
Second Shot is back which gives you the opportunity to take an exam again for free if you fail it the first time. More info here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/Career.aspx#certification Offer details: Dates: January 13, 2010 – June 30, 2010. Details: You must register, obtain a voucher code, schedule, pay, and take the first and (if necessary) the …
Making of Avatar
Intrestng article about the data center used to make Avatar (yes you heard it, a whole data center!! http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/346361/Data_Center_Plays_Supporting_Role_in_i_Avatar_i_?taxonomyId=154 Couple of facts: Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data There are 34 racks containing more than 4,000 Hewlett-Packard blade servers The computing core includes about 35,000 processors and 104TB of RAM No wonder it …
Retrieve a list of all powershell cmdlets
If you want a list of all powershell cmdlets run this command. I have exported it to a text file 🙂 Get-Command | Format-List
Powershell alias
CommandType Name Definition ———– —- ———- Alias % ForEach-Object Alias ? Where-Object Alias ac Add-Content Alias asnp Add-PSSnapIn Alias cat Get-Content Alias cd Set-Location Alias chdir Set-Location Alias clc Clear-Content Alias clear Clear-Host Alias clhy Clear-History Alias cli Clear-Item Alias clp Clear-ItemProperty Alias cls Clear-Host Alias clv Clear-Variable Alias compare Compare-Object Alias copy Copy-Item Alias …
Managing Exchange Administrators with Powershell
To view Exchange Administrators with powershell we can use the get-exchangeadministrator commandlet. This will tell me the current exchange administrator groups in the domain. Example below is: [PS] C:\Windows\system32>get-exchangeadministrator | format-list Identity : EXCHANGELAB.LOCAL/Users/Administrator Scope : Organization wide Role : OrgAdmin Identity : EXCHANGELAB.LOCAL/Microsoft Exchange Security Groups/Exchange Organi zation Administrators Scope : Organization wide …
Retrieve information about an Exchange 2007 Server
If you want to retrieve information about an exchange server you can use the GET-EXCHANGESERVER commandlet. This will retrieve information like the computer name, OU location, site name etc etc. The syntax of the command is: SYNTAX Get-ExchangeServer [-Identity <ServerIdParameter>] [-DomainController <Fqdn >] [-Status <SwitchParameter>] [<CommonParameters>] Get-ExchangeServer -Domain <Fqdn> [-DomainController <Fqdn>] [-Status …
January 2010 TechNet magazine is online
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx Editor’s Note: Choose your Upgrade Let’s talk about upgrade plans! Windows 7 is undoubtedly one of the most polished Microsoft client OSes to hit the market in years. by Jeff James System Center Configuration Manager: SQL Server Reporting Services and System Center Configuration Manager Combining SQL Server Reporting Services with System Center Configuration Manager …
Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 installation
To prepare an Active Directory domain for an Exchange 2007 installation we have to perform a number of steps before we go ahead with the installation. 1) Prepare the Schema This must be run on the Schema Master in the forest and you must also be a member of schema admins to run. D:\>setup /prepareschema …