Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage your IT Infrastructure

PowerShell Dashboard is available

Source: DevInfra-US PowerShell Dashboard is a modular IT administration web portal based on Dropthings . The goal of this project is to present a mashup of several open source solutions linked to PowerShell that gives ability for IT people to develop

Finding scripts in MP with PowerShell

Have you ever wanted to know which scripts are being using in a Management Pack? I did ;-) You would normally use the MPViewer from Boris Yanushpolsky to have a look into the MP. But the MPViewer does not show you a list of all the scripts being used

Back from holiday

I’m back from a long holiday to the South of France (Port-Grimaud). We had great sunny and warm weather and spend quite some time at the beach. I didn’t check my (work) email and only did some twittering during my holiday. So if you want to know what

TechNet Magazine: Windows PowerShell in System Center Operations Manager

Marco Shaw , has published an article about how Windows PowerShell can be used with System Center Operations Manager 2007 on the August Technet Magazine . Go read this great article about PowerShell and OpsMgr 2007 . He even mentions my PowerShell Event

PowerShell CMDLets for WebSphere MQ - administer queues on Windows or Linux

Source: All About Interop Dino Chiesa is writing about PowerShell CMDLets for WebSphere. “It seems IBM have been busy doing CmdLets for MQ, and somehow this escaped my attention . Starting back in December 2007, Dale Lane at IBM published a series

Sysinternals tools are now available via a Live service

Source: Doug Finke and Marc van Orsouw The Sysinternals tools are now accessible using a direct UNC link ( \\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\ ), so if your in need of a Sysinternals tool and you have an internet connection you can just type : CD \\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\

PowerShell Scriptomatic

Ed Wilson has created a Scriptomatic PowerShell Version, which you can download here . This Scriptomatic writes Windows PowerShell scripts that harness the power of WMI (Windows Instrumentation Management) for use in system management and administration.

OpsMgr 2007: Parameters Explained

Some time ago I showed you can use PowerShell to create Events for OpsMgr 2007. And according to the comments quite some people have questions about Event parameters . After creating the first version of the PowerShell Create Events for OpsMgr 2007 script,

RSS2Twitter Part 2

Thanks to Jeremy Pavleck I found out that Twitterfeed is much more efficient than using a PowerShell rss2twitter script. And he is right! But I learned some PowerShell creating the rss2twitter script ;-)

RSS2Twitter PowerShell script

As you might have noticed I’ve been using Twitter quite often lately . On my previous weblog I installed a Drupal Twitter module for updating Twitter with my latest blog posts. But now I migrated to Technet Blogs I didn’t had this possibility anymore,

New version of PowerShell Event Creator for Operations Manager 2007

Some month ago I created a PowerShell Event Creator and quite some people liked what I did ;-) Now Ken has made some great additions to this PS script. How cool is that? This are the additions he made: Modification so that you can log events in any Event

New PowerShell Event Creator for Operations Manager 2007

Did you remember the Event Creator for MOM 2005 which was available in the Resource Kit? You could use this tool to create events for testing Management Packs. Event Creator enables you to choose event sources for the existing event logs that are currently

Open Source PowerShell Implementation

Source: Miguel de Icaza's web log "This weekend at the Code Camp in Waltham, Igor Moochnick announced the release of pash his open source power shell implementation. It currently runs on Linux, MacOS, WindowsCE and Windows. Igor's project is hosted