Windows – Powershell – Page 3 of 3

Manage AD Thumbnail photos

22nd March 20181st September 2016 by jimmy

At a customer site recently, I came across some remnants of a Lync trial where users had thumbnail photos attached to their AD accounts. Trouble was, some of them were wrong, some were missing and some needed to be removed. Now there are plenty of tools out there to manage images, but I wanted to … Read more

Force SCCM Client to perform an inventory

22nd March 201820th January 2016 by jimmy

Recently we needed a quick solution to remotely force SCCM clients to perform a Hardware/Software inventory. I found some code here that I have modified slightly to wrap it in a GUI (Our Config manager doesn’t like command line!) As you can see, you have a range of options, and it is simply a case of entering … Read more

Script to remove files/folders from all local profiles

22nd March 201816th December 2015 by jimmy

I had a requirement recently that required a folder and all files under it to be removed from all local user profiles on a machine – turns out this is really simple to do in powershell: # Get a list of all local profiles on the target machine # $users = Get-ChildItem c:\users # Now … Read more

WSUS Reset and Re-Authorize

22nd March 201820th August 2015 by jimmy

Recently I came across a customer site where a lot of the machines had stopped receiving updates from WSUS, despite being visible in the WSUS console and having shown as reported in. I decided to write a powershell script to parse all the machines in AD, stop the Windows Update service, delete the SoftwareDistribution folder, … Read more

How to unzip files in powershell

22nd March 201819th March 2015 by jimmy

function Expand-ZIPFile($file, $destination) { $shell = new-object -com shell.application $zip = $shell.NameSpace($file) foreach($item in $zip.items()) { $shell.Namespace($destination).copyhere($item,16) #16 answers Y to any prompts, eg overwrite } } #call the function so: Expand-ZIPFile -file “c:\myfile.zip” -destination “d:\somedestination”

Displaying Network Adapter Speed with WMI via the Win32 NetworkAdapter class

18th February 202219th March 2015 by jimmy

Quick little script to do the above.. Function GetNetworkSpeed(strComputer) Dim colItems, objItem, address Dim StrQuery Dim objWMIService StrQuery = “SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter” Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\CIMV2″) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(strQuery,,48) For Each objItem in colItems GetNetworkSpeed = GetNetworkSpeed & vbTab & objItem.ProductName & vbCr Next End Function Or do … Read more