powershell

Windows Password Roll Script GUI

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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 … Read more

SCCM Client Cache Size

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Recently I came across a situation where one of my SCCM deployments was failing due to the client cache being too small, now for new machines you can set this in your client installation settings, but for existing machines I needed another solution. For this, I created a small powershell script: $Cache = Get-WmiObject -Namespace … Read more

How to unzip files in powershell

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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

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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