Year: 2013

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Part– 4 : Working with Event Logs using PowerShell :- Get-WinEvent

Aman Dhally

Part-1: Working with Event Logs using PowerShell Part–2 : Working with Event Logs using PowerShell :- Get-EventLog Part–3 : Working With Event Logs Using PowerShell :- Get-EventLog   In previous posts , i had shown you how to use “Get-EventLog”, now we are going to use “Get-WinEvent” cmdlet, The Get-WinEvent cmdlet is more powerful then… Continue reading Part– 4 : Working with Event Logs using PowerShell :- Get-WinEvent

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Part–3 : Working with Event Logs using PowerShell :- Get-EventLog

Aman Dhally

Part-1: Working with Event Logs using PowerShell Part–2 : Working with Event Logs using PowerShell :- Get-EventLog   Welcome to the part 3 of the “PowerShell and Event Log” post,  In my previous post we shows the usages of “Get-EventLog” cmdlet. Today we are going to use some more advance and cool features of the… Continue reading Part–3 : Working with Event Logs using PowerShell :- Get-EventLog

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Part–2 : Working with Event Logs using PowerShell :- Get-EventLog

Aman Dhally

  In my previous blog post,, i had tried to cover the basics of “Event Logs”, and in https://amandhally.com/2013/11/12/part-1-working-with-event-logs-using-powershell/previous post we had also saw the use of “Show-EventLog” cmdlet. There is no benefit of PowerShell if we are exploring “Event Logs” using GUI tools. So let’s start working on PowerShell console. There are two main… Continue reading Part–2 : Working with Event Logs using PowerShell :- Get-EventLog

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MVP Community Day: November 9th, 2013, Saturday at Microsoft (Gurgaon)

Aman Dhally

Hi, This Saturday is MVP Community day. We are doing 2 PowerShell events on that day. One event is on “Start Using PowerShell for Managing MS SQL Server” by MVP Sarabpreet Singh Anand. Second one is on “Managing Windows Event Logs Using PowerShell” by me. Please use the below link to register for the event.… Continue reading MVP Community Day: November 9th, 2013, Saturday at Microsoft (Gurgaon)

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Working with PowerShell Preference Variables: $OFS (Output field Separator).

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  When you open PowerShell console, type $ and start pressing ‘tab’, you will amaze that there are many pre-built variables exists there. One of the variable is $OFS, this is a preference variable and full meaning of $OFS is ‘Output Fields Separator’. What it does? It specified the character to use as separator while… Continue reading Working with PowerShell Preference Variables: $OFS (Output field Separator).

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PowerShell Script : Find the name of Installed Antivirus on local or remote laptop.

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Do you ever want to know what antivirus installed on remote laptop, or does remote system has a antivirus or not, knowing this is  always a pain, normally you have to call user and ask them,. Today i have found a cool namespace named ““root\SecurityCenter2” ”  and this name space has a class “AntiVirusProduct ”,… Continue reading PowerShell Script : Find the name of Installed Antivirus on local or remote laptop.

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PowerShell Tip : Find Default Printer Installed using Powershell.

Aman Dhally

The job of System Administrators are very adventurous, sometime you have to find a little-little settings and sometime you have to write a big-big,  hundred’s of line’s scripts. Today, my task was to find a default printer installed on laptops. To solve it , i used the Win32_Printer class. You can run the below query… Continue reading PowerShell Tip : Find Default Printer Installed using Powershell.

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Powershell Tips : Use Only Powershell V2 cmdlets , with PowershellV3 Installed.

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I use Windows 7 (64 bit) with Powershell V3 installed on it. Most of our users are still on PowerShell v2, Sometime when I am writing scripts for them i use some PowerShell v3 cmdlets accidently. Normally I write the initially version of all scripts on PowerShell console and I do test my all script… Continue reading Powershell Tips : Use Only Powershell V2 cmdlets , with PowershellV3 Installed.