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Forwarding Security Events from Windows XP, Server 2003, and Vista/Server 2008

Security events are different than other Windows events because they require a special level of authentication/credentials in order to read or forward these events. Different configurations are required depending on which Windows platform is the client. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 10:54 AM by ottoh | 0 Comments

Hyper-V Virtual Identification

Since virtual machines can be easily moved between physical hosts (parents), it becomes important to track where virtual machines are physically residing for both asset management as well as troubleshooting purposes. The following post focuses on discovering Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 9:00 AM by ottoh | 0 Comments

Quick and Dirty Large Scale Eventing for Windows

One of the least known yet most powerful management features to ship with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is built-in Event Forwarding which enables large scale health and state monitoring of a Windows environment (assuming health and state can Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:25 AM by ottoh | 1 Comments

Reference The Event That Triggered Your Task

Task Scheduler 2.0 (which shipped with Vista and Windows Server 2008) is a complete re-write of the built-in Windows Task Scheduler. Task Scheduler 2.0 is a fantastic automation tool that includes new powerful triggers like "from Event". From a task's Read More...
Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 1:29 PM by ottoh | 0 Comments

Quick and Dirty Web Site Monitoring with PowerShell

The other day Mark noticed that redirections for our http://www.sysinternals.com/ URL were intermittently failing. In order to get more objective data, I built a script that tested the URL every 5 seconds, and reported back Success or Failure as well Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:44 AM by ottoh | 7 Comments

Quick and Dirty Software Inventory with PsInfo and PowerShell

PsInfo is great for gathering asset information from Windows computers, both locally and remotely. PowerShell is great for automation and cleaning up output (among other things) as well as working with database driven data. The following examples show Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 12:30 PM by ottoh | 14 Comments

Automate E-Mail Alerts with Windows Vista

The Windows Task Scheduler as been completely re-written for Windows Vista to be a very powerful automation tool. The Task Scheduler now has the ability to launch tasks from a wide variety of useful triggers rather than being limited to the standard time Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:24 AM by ottoh | 1 Comments

WS-Man Ping Test

WS-Man (Windows Remote Management) is a new protocol and framework first delivered in Windows 2003 R2 and is more prevalent in Windows Vista and beyond. There's an easy way to test WS-Man reachability that is similar to the network ping concept by testing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:24 AM by ottoh | 1 Comments

A Few Good Vista WS-Man (WinRM) Commands

In Vista, a lot of instrumentation, configuration, and utilization information is exposed via WS-Man. Vista WS-Man (aka: WS-Management, Windows Remote Management, and WinRM) incorporates many features, but I like to think of it as the management protocol/framework Read More...
Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 3:57 PM by ottoh | 3 Comments
 
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