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I am certified Microsoft professional, a Microsoft MVP and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. I work today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. I've co-authored or authored several books, courseware, and training videos on administrative scripting and automation. My latest book is Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShel: TFM 2nd Ed.(SAPIEN Press 2011).
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Tag Archives: eventlog
New Event Report Revised
Last year I posted an update to an old Mr. Roboto script that was an update to an even older VBScript. Still with me? My last revision leveraged the new Get-WinEvent cmdlet to create an HTML report of recent error … Continue reading
Posted in Mr. Roboto, PowerShell v2.0, Windows 7, WMI
Tagged ConvertTo-HTML, eventlog, Get-WinEvent, Get-WMIObject, HTML, PowerShell, WMI
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New Event Report
For a number of years I wrote the popular Mr. Roboto column for REDMOND magazine. When I first started the column, many of my scripts were written in VBScript. Then as PowerShell came along that became the preferred tool. Over … Continue reading
Posted in Mr. Roboto, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged eventlog, Function, HTML, PowerShell, Scripting, WinEvent, Write-progress
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Friday the 13 Script Blocks
In celebration of Friday the 13th and to help ward off any triskaidekaphobia I thought I’d offer up 13 PowerShell scriptblocks. These are scriptblocks that might solve a legitimate business need like finding how long a server has been running … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting, Windows 7, Windows Server, WMI
Tagged cmdlet, eventlog, FileSystem, PowerShell, ScriptBlock, Scripting, WMI
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