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
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
Hi, I am planning to start a few post series on managing Event Logs with PowerShell. I do believe that, it doesn’t matter ,which server application are you using or if you are troubleshooting any client’s desktop, when any problem arise, the first step for troubleshooting is the looking at “Event Logs”. Event Logs… Continue reading Part-1: Working with Event Logs using PowerShell.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Today, I have been asked to do a strange task, My manager told me to find a Operating System Start time. I was thinking about an half hour on how to get this done, then i thought about Event Logs, every thing is recorded there, after a few minutes of hardworking , i have found… Continue reading Find Operating System Start time using Powershell.
As i always says, Powershell is a Sanjivini for system administrators, You are use Powershell to do anything you like to do, and it is bless when it comes to create a fix, patch, automate some tasks. Do you ever used VMware Mirage? If not ? try it, it is a cool applications. We… Continue reading Enable useSSLtrasport in VMware Mirage using Powershell.
There is no need to prove that PowerShell is a very cool technology, we already proved it many times. For me PowerShell is like a blank white canvas and you are painter, now it is up to us and on our imaginations what we can create. we can create a beautiful usable scripts things… Continue reading ON-OFF Keyboard Lock keys {Caps,Scroll,Num} Using PowerShell.
