Windows – Powershell – Page 3 of 3

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 …

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, …

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 …