WSUS Reset and Re-Authorize

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, …

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Windows Password Roll Script GUI

Back in may 2014, Microsoft released a patch to fix a vulnerability in Group Policy Preferences which left many people without a method for changing local account passwords. Happily, they also provided a powershell script to allow sys admins to do this. Whilst the script works, it isn’t very elegant or user friendly, indeed one of …

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How to unzip files in powershell

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

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 …

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