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Getting Operations Manager 2007 Overrides with Powershell

Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:55 PM by tmintner
I am currently on an Operations Manager 2007 project and it's been a lot of fun so far. One of the new concepts of Operations Manager 2007 is that any change made to the provided management packs are done through the use of Overrides. Overrides were very Read More...
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Powershell to see what Updates have been installed

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 8:48 PM by tmintner
I was playing around in Powershell today and ran into this nice set of commands that will show you what Updates have been installed as known by the Windows Update Agent: First create a variable and bind it to the "Microsoft.Update.Searcher" Com Object: Read More...
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Powershell and Active Directory

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:55 PM by tmintner
Mow posted another great blog entry on how to access User properties in Active Directory with Powershell. This guy's blog is just awesome. You should definitely start to grab his feeds: http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/07/powershell-and-active-directory-part-3.htm Read More...
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Use Powershell to add virtual machines to Virtual Server

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:20 AM by tmintner
Back to a topic that I know I won't get dinged on. :) I was playing arround with the list of available COM ProgID's by using the command in Jeffrey Snover's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/06/29/650913.aspx I ran this command to see Read More...
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Use Powershell to find SMS errors

Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 5:20 PM by tmintner
I was working onsite with a client last week and we were testing SMS V4 (SCCM 2007) OS Deployment features. While we were working we were having numerous client connectivity errors and often had to pull up good ol' notepad or SMS Trace to find the errors. Read More...
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Powershell Execution Policy on Vista

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:29 PM by tmintner
If you have downloaded and used RC1 of Powershell you will see that the Execution Policy is set to restricted by default. This essentially means that scripts do not function by default within Powershell. Although this is a great security feature that Read More...
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Powershell Books

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:02 PM by tmintner
If you are into printed books there are a couple of really good Powershell books that you should check out. O"Reilly has a great book simply titled Monad. This book was originally written on one of the beta versions of Powershell but if you purchase the Read More...
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Sample Powershell Active Directory Phonebook Script

Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 3:43 PM by tmintner
I have been learning the syntax of Powershell so I thought I would write a simple little script to search Active Directory for the mobile phone numbers of my co-workers. This script will accept an input of lastname and even take wildcard characters so Read More...
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Powershell command to see what’s installed

Posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:00 PM by tmintner
Here is a quick little Powershell script that I find useful to see what I have installed on my system. This will return the installed program and the date that it was installed: get-wmiobject -class "win32reg_addremoveprograms" -namespace "root\cimv2" Read More...
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Learning PowerShell

Posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 5:20 PM by tmintner
If you are involved with scripting at all you have probably heard about Powershell. Powershell is formerly known as MONAD. I will be posting some sample scripts here in the future but before reading those you should become familiar with some of the great Read More...
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